Example sentences of "[been] [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even since the war industrial relocation schemes for rural areas have been half-hearted and inadequate . |
| 2 | Much of the rhetoric of the war effort had been imperialistic and the imperial idea retained strong political allegiance after 1945 especially on the right of British politics . |
| 3 | He wanted a reserved figure because previous applicants had all been loud and pushy . |
| 4 | There 's been loud and strong protest over the past few weeks as parents have campaigned against the clinic claiming it presented a threat to their children 's well-being . |
| 5 | But in a newspaper report on the trial , such an omission would have been absurd and itself an act of collusion with racism . |
| 6 | Indeed , working-class assent to policing has arguably always been hesitant and brittle ( Cohen , 1979 ; Brogden , 1982 ) . |
| 7 | Our relationship between any lottery director and G Tec as a company has always been professional and above reproach and as far as our relationship with the current director in California , we 've had instances were we 've been successful in California in gaining business while she was a director , and we 've been unsuccessful . |
| 8 | Britain wanted to be firm , instead they 've been hasty and stupid . |
| 9 | As a teenager she had been frail and very light , and although now she is two stone heavier , and healthier for it , she still believes that young women should be thin , even skeletally so . |
| 10 | Men who had been asleep and were woken up by the noise did not appear to resent it but sat up on one elbow and stared . |
| 11 | It was not until she saw the colour of the light — deep warm gold — that she realised how long she must have been asleep and looked at her watch . |
| 12 | Idealists could claim that British policy had been tardy and hesitant . |
| 13 | The truckle-bed had been narrow and hard , and she was profoundly unwilling to surrender herself to sleep . |
| 14 | Some measures taken in this context have been controversial and offered an easy target for criticism in the press . |
| 15 | Edith had been pregnant and alone , the salesman abandoning her when she had told him her condition . |
| 16 | That — arrogant brute had implied that her mother had taken his family for a ride financially , yet , according to Ruth Russell , Isabelle had been pregnant and penniless , reduced to working as a mother 's help when Hugh met her . |
| 17 | Forty five patients had previously been pregnant and in this subgroup , there were 11 recurrences compared with only one in the 10 patients who were nulliparous — corresponding to LTA rates of 31.2 ( 9.0 ) % and 20.0 ( 17.9 ) % respectively at 42 months ( NS ) . |
| 18 | They 'd snapped at one another before — more often than not , Melissa recalled , over the involvement of one with a man considered unsuitable by the other — but any irritation had always been short-lived and apologies barely necessary . |
| 19 | Realising that her crossness with Vendelin Gajdusek had been short-lived and had quickly faded , Fabia was left to worry about Cara , and Barney , and the interview which by rights should now be over , but which had n't begun yet . |
| 20 | Although there have been conflicting and confusing studies in the literature , two things emerge from fundamental research on DMAE and DEAE . |
| 21 | Soon , thought Henry , feeling , as he often did , a sense of solidarity with chickens , they would label one with THIS FOWL HAS BEEN HAND-REARED AND TALKED TO NICELY . |
| 22 | The familiar carcrash sculptures have now been hand-painted and christened with punning titles : ‘ Headly Lamarr ’ ; ‘ A Spear de Corps ’ ; ‘ Advice Squad ’ . |
| 23 | Co-operative , have you worked with other people , as a team , as a pair , have you been pleasant and helpful , have you been a pain in the neck ? |
| 24 | Now if you think you have been pleasant and helpful , you 've shared things with somebody , if they asked you a question you did n't bang them on the head , you helped , sign it now we come to the real sixty thousand point question , are you ready for this ? |
| 25 | It had been the first definite sign that something was wrong ; though she had been moody and withdrawn for some weeks before , he had thought this a normal reaction to her baby 's death . |
| 26 | He had been depressed and refused to help his wife in the restaurant . |
| 27 | An inquest opened yesterday where the coroner heard Mrs Patterson had been depressed and receiving hospital treatment . |
| 28 | you see , I mean what they do is soon as they 've kicked them out in the mental homes they 're having to put them in to erm , I mean erm , there are people who are not able to be on their own , I mean the ones they 've kicked out are people that have been depressed and say well you 've got to find , get your family to help , I mean , when you 've got somebody depressed in your family you try and help them |
| 29 | For navigation , I had been lazy and followed the piste , which was now a trench of sand . |
| 30 | A spokesman for the parents , when Lynda Clarke 's submission was heard , was quick to contradict this statement , saying the supporters outside both the Panel offices and the Sheriff Court had been orderly and quiet . |