Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an obvious and necessary position which should have been filled long before . |
| 2 | You can see that some more lines have been filled in automatically for you . |
| 3 | After a site has been filled in again only artefacts , notebooks and the photographic record remain to aid the archaeologist in the long post-excavation period when he or she has to decide what it all meant , and publish details of what was found . |
| 4 | It turned out that the forms had all been filled in correctly but the DSS had n't read them properly . |
| 5 | There was a lot of straw in the mattress and it had been filled recently so that it was pleasantly responsive . |
| 6 | ‘ Something small , which might have been hidden almost anywhere . |
| 7 | Too much had been hidden too long . |
| 8 | This will lead me to take seriously some of those attributes of professional work which have perhaps been dismissed too lightly in recent work as mere political rhetoric . |
| 9 | Moreover , the fundamental social structures and traditional land-management practices of many indigenous populations have often been dismissed as more or less irrelevant to modern-day needs . |
| 10 | The peasant grass-roots culture that has been examined briefly here was too local in scope , too illiterate , to line up strongly with the intelligentsia . |
| 11 | Variables which have been examined particularly frequently by sociolinguists are social class , age , sex and ethnicity . |
| 12 | The reality of life at passenger-level , mentioned only indirectly , could have been examined more thoroughly to determine the efficiency of British Rail 's service delivery , surely the basis for its existence . |
| 13 | These facilities make VSAM more similar to database software than most of the file organization techniques that have been examined so far — in fact , many of the database systems available for mini- and micro-computers provide only this multiple index facility . |
| 14 | In the simplified models that have been examined so far , this probability turns out to be high ; that is , the proposed no boundary condition leads to the prediction that it is extremely probable that the present rate of expansion of the universe is almost the same in each direction . |
| 15 | Nothing was said , but she had the impression it had been examined almost as closely as Maurice 's . |
| 16 | But it is also noteworthy that once the Suez adventure had been stopped how anxiously , if in the greatest secrecy , the Eisenhower administration set about trying to reverse the damage which had been inflicted upon the Atlantic alliance and upon Britain . |
| 17 | We 'd have been stopped long ago . |
| 18 | On the tricky fact that some passengers have more money than others ( and Mr Pannick 's taxi has been stopped very frequently by the government in recent years ; he has had a special sign on it since 1988 that says ‘ Junior council to the Crown , common law ’ ) , the author declares that the authorities ‘ must make expenditre reon legal aid a high priority and that the defects in the structure of legal aid are in need of urgent repair ’ . |
| 19 | Finland had been annexed only recently , and the impoverishment of the Baltic peasantry which resulted from their emancipation under Alexander I could have given rise to extensive social unrest . |
| 20 | If what has been hypothesised so far is true , much of the variation in linguistic interactions which is not explicable in terms of grammatical or phonological conditioning can be accounted for by changes of footing , involving a switch from one ( linguistic ) persona to another ; some can be accounted for by the speaker 's failure to identify perfectly the speech patterns of the prototypes of the personas which s/he seeks to animate at a particular time ; and some can be accounted for by the speaker 's imperfect ability to reproduce those speech patterns which s/he has identified . |
| 21 | That opportunity has been delayed too long . |
| 22 | ‘ There have been quite a number of ladies who have been mugged around here , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Infas said 10pc of West Germans and 4pc in the formerly Communist East agreed wholeheartedly with the statement : ‘ It is the Jews ’ own fault that they have been persecuted so often in their history . ’ |
| 24 | But the idea of closer political ties with England had first been mooted as far back as the late fifteenth century , by James III ; and even though it was then an extremely unpopular policy , it was an idea which never again quite went away . |
| 25 | It has been paralysed ever since . |
| 26 | The culmination of these processes suggests that about 12,800 additional jobs have been sustained either directly or indirectly by the enterprise-zone experiment . |
| 27 | The demand for imported goods by the USA has been sustained not only by the growth of incomes during the economic expansion since 1982 but also by the considerable appreciation of the US dollar in foreign exchange markets between 1979 and 1985 ( the depreciation of the dollar beginning in March 1985 ) . |
| 28 | The voices have been heard as far as the race track or right at the other end of the town , depending on which way the wind is blowing . |
| 29 | Volcanic effects have been even more sudden and disastrous , ranging from the explosion of the island of Krakatoa , between Java and Sumatra , in 1883 to the even more catastrophic eruption of Santorini ( or Thira ) in the Aegean about 1470 B.C. This eruption , or series of eruptions , which resulted in the huge collapsed caldera in the sea beside the present island , must have been the greatest catastrophe ever witnessed by man and may well have been heard as far away as Britain . |
| 30 | For the last decade , such accolades have been heard more rarely since Mr Swinton chose a hermit 's life in the West Country and no paintings of his have come before the Selection Committee at the Royal Academy since he left London . |