Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I demurred , pointing out to Haines that as the chairman of the Newspaper Publishers Association I had been very careful to avoid interfering with press stories in any way . |
| 2 | At college I had been thoroughly disgusted with the male egos that dominated the left-wing student politics . |
| 3 | In which case why not jettison this religion which has been so harmful to women ? l6 |
| 4 | ‘ Contemporary design ’ , the magazine 's editor regretted , ‘ because it has no roots in the vernacular idiom … will not appear immediately familiar ’ , whilst the ‘ mock-Tudor and the mock-Georgian styles which have been so prevalent — no matter how misguided in themselves — have sprung … from a genuine attempt to preserve a traditional atmosphere ’ . |
| 5 | We therefore intend a package of measures to achieve this , including delegation of financial decisions and appointment of teaching staff to local controllers ( known as ‘ parents ’ — see item 4 above ) , and central Government support for individual schools which have been particularly successful at promoting inequality . |
| 6 | Again valuable lessons can be learned from those subjects which have been under National Curriculum orders longer than history . |
| 7 | It was thought likely that some substantial Teesdale farmer might buy all three , ranch the land and sell off the house as a weekend cottage — a regrettably common practice which has been partially responsible for the steady depopulation of the Dales , particularly the more isolated places . |
| 8 | Accordingly in the Rules an incorporated practice which has been so recognised is referred to as a ‘ recognised body ’ . |
| 9 | Dublin said : ‘ I hope my first goal will now help me settle and show I can score more for the club and the fans who have been so good . ’ |
| 10 | He had reported their conversation to Adams who had been inordinately pleased . |
| 11 | As he ended , there was an enormous cheer on our side and I saw one of our backbenchers who had been particularly critical over the weekend waving his order paper in enthusiastic support . |
| 12 | The defence counsel , Robert Henderson , QC , said that Mr Buckley 's death had been a great shock to Sutherland who had been very lucky to escape with his life . |
| 13 | But like many other nations we have been deeply concerned by the violence in the Baltics , and we have communicated that concern to the Soviet leadership . |
| 14 | As a result there had been very few scientific studies which would make their case harder to win , he said . |
| 15 | But when editors have seen it in the States they 've been very impressed but find it difficult to use . |
| 16 | By comparison with Alexander I and most eighteenth-century tsars he had been remarkably inactive beyond his frontiers . |
| 17 | planning applications , erm the sort of locational aspects are important , the the existing policy in the structure plan did have some sort of control over the the number of jobs , but it 's as as David Potter has said , it 's been very difficult to monitor er the level of jobs being provided , and in practice it 's been really impossible to implement that aspect of of the policy . |
| 18 | He had wanted her himself so badly , and when he 'd heard of her wedding he had been insanely jealous . |
| 19 | Hilbert he had been too much in awe of to ask . |
| 20 | In the last few months he has been especially active ; for instance , in response to the criticism that art education is much neglected , he announced in January the renovation or rehousing of four art schools , including the Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux Arts of Paris . |
| 21 | However , the disciplines which have been particularly important to these courses almost since the foundation of the Centre in 1962 have been History , Politics , Social Anthropology , and Education . |
| 22 | On arriving he missed that female intimacy which had been so important a part of his life for many years . |
| 23 | By 1965 or so this had all gone , but Medalla himself has been too bouncy and inventive to obey the arid strictures of minimalism . |
| 24 | The Dutch yacht which had been away last week was back in its mooring beside the wherry , she noticed . |
| 25 | However , the international support which had been so important over West Irian was generally lacking . |
| 26 | ’ In the short term it means that we 're through the recession which has been really difficult to get through |
| 27 | Receiving a copy of the AGM Minutes from the Branch prompts Air Mail to give a little space to describe the activities and efforts being made by the Branch Committee , a committee which has been virtually unchanged since the Branch was re-activated six years ago . |
| 28 | The Ministry of Education , now headed by rightwingers in the coalition , has indicated its intention to concentrate on formal sector education , marginalizing the literacy and popular adult education work which had been so important under the Sandinistas by starving them of funds . |
| 29 | With cool logic but passionate polemic , Segal takes on the ( primarily North American ) body of feminist work which has been so influential in the peace , ecology , and anti-pornography campaigns of the last two decades . |
| 30 | It is obviously easier to offer social analysis of a formal institution , with its regularized type of internal organization , and its commonly regulated relations to the rest of society , than even to begin analysis of the relatively informal associations which have been so important in modern cultural life . |