Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it seems unlikely that the mare basins could each have been filled in one outpouring . |
| 2 | In Great Britain there is no such force , and the gap has been filled in recent years by a militarization of the police force . |
| 3 | ‘ People seem to think we are getting rid of all the books but the only ones we have done away with are those which had been hidden away unused for many years . ’ |
| 4 | In Litster , even though the sale was by a receiver , it was clear that the employees had been dismissed immediately prior to completing the sale of a business solely to avoid the effect of the Transfer Regulations on the sale . |
| 5 | I was just saying to Malcolm how surprised I 'd been to see so many your men at Doreen 's funeral , but I shut up when the police arrived . |
| 6 | The economic history of Byzantium has in the past been examined too much in isolation from the general course of medieval economic history . |
| 7 | So it was only in the nineteenth century when all the loopholes had been stopped up that marriage became in fact what it had always been in theory , indissoluble . |
| 8 | The previous ball had been stopped just short of the boundary by some members of the crowd who had engulfed the pitch . |
| 9 | Perhaps it is because the fishermen have been demonstrating so much recently that they have not been catching so much fish . ’ |
| 10 | The aircraft had been flown already that day , before refuelling for Herr Hess 's trip , and the motor was still warm . |
| 11 | At the USAF base virtually all buildings were razed to the ground , though seventy of the 72 F-16s stationed there had been flown out prior to the hurricane striking . |
| 12 | You 've just been seeing too many films . |
| 13 | When they have been eating out all the time they have been away , and are longing for an evening at home , the suggestion does not go down well . |
| 14 | During the 20th century the average person in Western society has been eating too much fat and too little fibre . |
| 15 | That 's probably the trouble if you 've been eating too much . |
| 16 | It amazed me to think that even though the gay bar had been situated up those dark stairs for many years , the straight men downstairs managed to keep up the impetus so that no queen should pass without an insult . |
| 17 | People will have been queueing up this morning to buy these stamps . |
| 18 | The management has , very decently , been slapping up borrowed works of art . |
| 19 | The pressure which had been building up all weekend was nearing some sort of explosion . |
| 20 | Although some have done this display before , the tension 's been building up all week . |
| 21 | Tension 's been building up all week . |
| 22 | For example , the late John Strachey , former Minister of Food , used to contend that had the notorious African Ground Nuts Scheme been placed just 30 miles to the West of the site chosen in Tanganyika ( now Tanzania ) , the climate differed just sufficiently there that all would have been well . |
| 23 | The cloth could have been placed there half an hour or so later . ’ |
| 24 | The spotted mare came from Billy Smart 's and jumps a flaming hoop suspended at five feet , the chestnut in the horsebox is an ex-hunter who once belonged to the Duke of Beaufort , this one I 'm holding has been placed twice round Badminton , and Hoomey 's — ’ |
| 25 | There was no covert there larger than an acre or two and they had been placed as much for their scenic effect as for their game-preserving role . |
| 26 | No drug has been proven globally effective in IBS . |
| 27 | Whatever , his prophecies about Alexander 's death had been proven brutally correct . |
| 28 | For a file of this size , no value has been altered materially due to the simplification of using Poisson values . |
| 29 | In coeliac disease patients who had not been treated both total and nephrogenous cAMP urinary excretion were inversely related to serum calcium values ( r=-0.759 , p<0.05 ; r=-0.876 , p<0.01 ) . |
| 30 | There are cases , including the authorities to which Cooke P. referred , in which an order apparently final has been treated as interlocutory so as to deprive a litigant of a right of appeal or so as to restrict such right . |