Example sentences of "[verb] been [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The critic as advocate has been fortunate in twentieth-century France , where a climate of culture has brought art and literature together ; also art and philosophy , in the case of Jean-Paul Sartre 's advocacy of Giacometti , in whose emaciated figure sculptures the philosopher saw a metaphor of human struggle , even , as he wrote in an article in Les Temps modernes in 1948 , ‘ the fleshless martyrs of Buchenwald ’ . |
| 2 | The full network of 82 training and enterprise councils has been operational since last October . |
| 3 | As Carolyn Bartholomew , who has been instrumental in convincing Diana to seek medical help , observes : ‘ It 's been there through her royal career , without a doubt . |
| 4 | I should have liked to have said come and be our guests , but , having been redundant since last October , Julia did indicate on the phone that you would be willing to pay the basic going rate . |
| 5 | The conviction for the diversion and misuse of public funds of Gen. Mustapha Belloucif , a former chief of staff said to have been close to former President Chadli Benjedid , was interpreted as a sign that the new authorities wished to prove themselves capable of attacking corruption , even in the military . |
| 6 | As the project progressed , it was also harder to find schools which fitted the original criteria for Minors , e.g. one library division had been fortunate in finding Majors , but began to find it difficult to identify , for Minor recommendation , " schools which have had a degree of interest and success for some years " . |
| 7 | British academic institutions which had been involved in satisfying Elena Ceauşescu 's desire for recognition by her colleagues handled their embarrassment with little aplomb after Christmas 1989 . |
| 8 | But he denied newspaper reports that the men had been involved in last December 's bombing of a Pan Am jet which exploded above the Scottish village of Lockerbie with the loss of 270 lives . |
| 9 | According to the security forces , Michael Hart had been involved in numerous IRA attacks and had been rumoured to have triggered the Ballygawley bomb . |
| 10 | Simple cottages of compacted chalk and flint with front walls the depth of a single brick were flung up in rows of squalid terraces with neither drains nor water supplies ; what had been normal in rural Sussex soon became a trap of disease and hopelessness . |
| 11 | There were two old linebacked bulls and seven bull calves at the time to help fix the colour , which was not unlike that of the Longhorn , an English breed which had been widespread in eighteenth-century Ireland ( there was said to be a ‘ hornless Longhorn ’ in Cumberland in the nineteenth century ) . |
| 12 | ( The market 's post crash high had been 2,737.8 on 11 May 1992 . ) |
| 13 | Safety issues have been paramount throughout modern NGV development — and CNG has several safety advantages over liquid fuels . |
| 14 | She moistened her lips and said pleadingly , ‘ She 's been good to poor Dilys . ’ |
| 15 | She 's been foul to poor Adam . ’ |