Example sentences of "have [adv] been [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , admission to a psychiatric unit has presumably been the result of distress which in many cases will persist after admission . |
| 2 | Now opera has rarely been a naturalistic medium , and never an understated one . |
| 3 | There has rarely been a clearer example of the extent to which a Conservative leader sets the keynote for the party the extent to which it is moulded round its leader . |
| 4 | Furthermore , industrialization has rarely been the panacea for rural development that had been hoped . |
| 5 | Although it has rarely been the subject of judicial pronouncement the conceptual basis of the " conventional " sums awarded by the courts in respect of non-pecuniary losses appears to be that such sums are what are considered fair and reasonable compensation in the social , economic and industrial conditions which prevail in England and Wales . |
| 6 | Ferranti has had its problems in the past so has rarely been an investors ' favourite . |
| 7 | The last two summers have been very hot and dry , although this summer has luckily been a great deal better . |
| 8 | The original money was quickly invested and there has since been a stream of rights issues , particularly from companies in Thailand where the fund is 37.8 per cent invested . |
| 9 | On the fiftieth anniversary of the dispute , in 1976 , several books appeared on the subject , producing a surfeit of published research to which there has since been no significant addition . |
| 10 | It was effectively superseded in 1980 by the Latin American Integration Association ( LAIA ) , which allowed bilateral deals and has since been an umbrella under which they have proliferated ( Tussie 1987 : p. 129 ) . |
| 11 | Possibly intending a pun on the word ‘ horary ’ , he named it an ‘ orrery ’ ; and this has since been the usual English word for a mechanical planetarium . |
| 12 | Traditionally , corporate takeover activity has predominantly been a feature of UK and US markets . |
| 13 | ‘ On a number of occasions he has personally been the target of attack from either snipers , antitank fire or from mortar bombardment . |
| 14 | There has obviously been a conscious decision and determination on his part to make his life a fulfilment of prophetic utterance . |
| 15 | The environment has hitherto been a fief of the interior ministry . |
| 16 | But the meeting understood that " It has hitherto been the policy of this HQ and remains ( it is understood ) the advice of the British Resident Minister and the US Political Adviser that all classes and types of dissident and anti-Tito Jugoslavs who fall into the hands of Allied Forces either in Italy or in Austria should not be forced to return to Jugoslavia … " |
| 17 | Perhaps development of nursery education on a much greater scale , bigger scale than has hitherto been the case |
| 18 | Perhaps a development of nursery education on a much greater scale , bigger scale than has hitherto been the case |
| 19 | Beyond this , however , its origin has hitherto been an insoluble problem : the explicit evidence of the ancients is notoriously inadequate and various different theories have been constructed from it . |
| 20 | The Treaty brings about the formal transformation of what has hitherto been an Economic Community into a Union which is mandated to act in many areas on behalf of its own citizens , and to claim their allegiance . |
| 21 | ‘ I just wonder whether it has all been a waste of time . ’ |
| 22 | I hope it is not too late to say yes , I 'd like very much to have dinner on Friday and I too feel we 've been rather silly and it has all been a misunderstanding … ’ |
| 23 | It has all been a fantastic myth exploded by grim reality . |
| 24 | Twenty-three years in the business has all been the build-up for this , as I take on my most challenging role ever — bloody prompter ! ’ |
| 25 | Naipaul has long been a reader of Conrad , and Guerrillas can make you think of Nostromo . |
| 26 | Non-evaluative criticism , as propounded by the successive Merton professors , Gardner and Carey , has long been a popular ideal at Oxford . |
| 27 | HOARDING clothes has long been a British vice . |
| 28 | Street children like Manoel now fear more than temporary incarceration at Febem , the Dickensian state orphanage that has long been a synonym for alienation and violence . |
| 29 | IT HAS long been a precept at Leicester Rugby Club . |
| 30 | It has long been a nightmare in Moscow that the region could be highly vulnerable to Islamic militants from the indigenous population 's ethnic and religious brothers across the borders in Afghanistan and Iran . |