Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb base] [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As your co-trustee I have not been inattentive to my duty … and I in no shape deserve to be the object of the prosecution of my co-trustees . |
| 2 | ‘ Except for losing Mum I 've always been lucky , but it 's bound to change sometime . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Of course I 've never been able to cook . |
| 4 | It 's the other kind of thinking I 've never been able to muster , the long-term stuff , ‘ Never confuse strategy with tactics , ’ one of my tutors advised me , but I ca n't even remember what the words mean . |
| 5 | The only animals I have n't been able to check on are the sheep . ’ |
| 6 | I think we deserved it because that was one of the finest team performances I 've ever been involved with . |
| 7 | ‘ That was one of the finest team performances I 've ever been involved with ’ Gavin Hastings |
| 8 | Practices of keeping donor insemination secret from all others , and of keeping the child in ignorance of his/her means of conception which have traditionally been implicit in the provision of donor insemination are now in a state of flux . |
| 9 | Other clients who 've not been sure about coming , actually find they quite like it and it 's not that bad and yes , they 'd like to stay ! |
| 10 | In the past where fee disputes have arisen following an M&A engagement we have always been able to establish our position to the lawyers ' satisfaction as a result of a clear and comprehensive engagement letter agreed to in writing by the client . |
| 11 | In these few paragraphs we have not been able to do more than provide a sketchy summary of these rich concepts . |
| 12 | Since 1969 when the procedure was brought into effect there have only been three review boards , though AIB have conducted something like fifteen inspector 's investigations each year . |
| 13 | ‘ Against us , Wales played him to the hilt , but then again the Scots themselves have never been slow to play to the referee , ’ states Best who is in Scotland for coaching sessions with five schools ( Madras , Morrison 's , Watson 's , Berwickshire High and Glasgow High ) and Edinburgh University last night , all arranged by his firm , Rugby Travel . |
| 14 | The dams themselves have long been disused . |
| 15 | In the tradition of Western philosophy there have always been those who longed for a society in which injustice and poverty were abolished and people able to share their material possessions . |
| 16 | There they will remain for most of April , at least one of the pair on guard at all times on the loch in order to ward off any attempted ‘ take-over ’ , perhaps by young pairs who have n't been able to locate a suitable breeding site . |
| 17 | It is also empowering for groups who have long been powerless , downgraded , humiliated , patronised , deskilled and diminished to discover the strength of concerted action for themselves and on their own behalf . |
| 18 | This is the only nine to five sales job I 've ever been able to offer anybody . |
| 19 | This is because the process of planning has no alternative to that of moving continually forward and , in that movement , applying methods and ideas which have previously been untried . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , a blow has been struck for the land-owning taxpayer , particularly those less well-off individuals who have not been able to defend themselves against the local district valuer 's increasingly aggressive commercial techniques . |
| 21 | Obviously people who are merely going through a bad patch ( anxiety state ) are easier to assist in the process of change , because they have greater resources , than individuals who have always been anxious ( anxiety trait ) . |
| 22 | In these appeals we have only been concerned with the obligation to give the contemnor this written record , but in most of the reported cases there have been other breaches of procedures in addition to a breach of this nature . |
| 23 | So far over the two days there have only been five sub par rounds out of the 186 played . |
| 24 | In recent years there have certainly been dramatic moves to open sport up to the forces of the market . |
| 25 | Thus although poverty among lone mothers has increased in the 1980s , as a group they have long been vulnerable to poverty . |
| 26 | We have not forgotten this offer , although for various reasons we have not been able to develop an idea until now . |
| 27 | In my whole life of collecting and I suppose it 's a little bit to assuage my conscience I 've always been able to say to myself that I 'm allowed to have these things and enjoy them , but eventually they 're all going to museums . |
| 28 | The only two dates I have ever been able to remember are the date of my birth and 1066 , the year that William the Conqueror first visited England . |
| 29 | They say they 're having to deal with more and more dogs owned by families who have n't been able to give them the exercise they need . |
| 30 | It is n't often that unions have taken up issues such as racial or sex discrimination or unfair dismissal , and when workers have come out on strike they have usually been slow and reluctant to make these strikes official . |