Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [pron] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half the racing world seemed to have embraced the occasion , for which after the last race that afternoon there had been much speedy unrolling of glittering black and silver ceiling-to-floor curtaining , transforming the workaday interior of the grandstand into something ephemerally magnificent . |
| 2 | Notwithstanding problems of this kind there has been undoubted improvement in VDU design and it has been speculated that trade union pressure for high design standards has been a major stimulus to companies marketing their products on the basis of user acceptability . " |
| 3 | In the subsequent experience of the Church in exercising this ministry there have been many instances of failure , partial , delayed and temporary healing , reminding us that we live with the tension of the ‘ now ’ and the ‘ not yet ’ of the Kingdom . |
| 4 | After the French Referendum it 's been hectic . |
| 5 | So far in this chapter we have been concerned with the determinants and consequences of collective bargaining structures as they appertain on an inter-country basis at national level . |
| 6 | In this chapter we have been concerned with interpreting patterns of variation in speech communities with reference to the norms that can be shown to exist at varying levels of abstraction and generality . |
| 7 | In this chapter we have been concerned with the sharp end of the political process — with the institutions on which rests the job of maintaining order and of enforcing the decisions of the political process , however reached , on any citizens or foreign persons who do not voluntarily accept them . |
| 8 | In this chapter I have been concerned to draw out some of the implications for socialist politics of the analysis of capitalist property relations given earlier . |
| 9 | ‘ T' Brownies laid yum acrost t' river one night long ago so'as an old farmwife who 'd been kind to yum could get over to her daughter 's house on t' other side without goin' miles a-down t' river t' bridge . ’ |
| 10 | Though recent instruments like the new SZ zoom stereos are designed to be readily fitted to a range of different equipment there has been increasing demand in recent years for custom equipment and his has led to customer specific modular configurations for individual projects . |
| 11 | What had Julius seen in the nineteen-year-old girl she had been five years ago that had made him want to grab her and marry her , without even really knowing her ? |
| 12 | Well there 's another lad he 's been ill in health he 's worked more now than he ever has cos he used to work a few days and lose a few days and he was n't . |
| 13 | Up to this point it had been fine because there had been no money . |
| 14 | I refer to your recent interview for the above post and regret to advise you that on this occasion you have been unsuccessful . |
| 15 | I refer to your recent interview for the above post and regret to advise you that on this occasion you have been unsuccessful . |
| 16 | I refer to your recent application and interview for the above position and regret to inform you that on this occasion you have been unsuccessful . |
| 17 | Now I suppose for most of us because of the very fact were here this morning they have been few and far between such experiences , perhaps what is more common is that we may have spent time with someone who was dying , their last few hours , their last few minutes , and if they were not unconscious I wonder what sort of conversation would be going on between us and them , what sort of things would we , would we of been saying , what would we be asking us , well in this passage that we have been reading we have just such a conversation , two men who are on the verge of death , death can only be hours away for both of them , and here they have this conversation , it was in that sense it was one of the strangest interviews any body ever had with Jesus not only is the , the account here of er a death bed conversion , but the one who is saving is also in the process of dying . |
| 18 | Now , I suppose for most of us , bu bu because of the very fact we 're here this morning they have been few and far between , such experiences . |
| 19 | This morning she had been pale , still , but cheerful as anything . |
| 20 | Ever since I came downstairs this morning you 've been different , hostile . |
| 21 | In this leaflet we have been able to detail only a small part of our activities . |
| 22 | This season he has been OK . |
| 23 | Trounson says that 13 frozen embryos have been transferred over the past two years , but until this week none has been successful . |
| 24 | Thus the UK clearinghouse has been entirely funded from a national body , and in this respect it has been fortunate and unique . |
| 25 | It would certainly be unwise to argue that in this respect there has been any fundamental change in personnel practices in recent years . |
| 26 | In this role he has been responsible for LASMO 'S operated and non-operated North Sea projects . |
| 27 | Under this rubric there have been several locations which in the 1980s , at least at a particular , symbolic level , have lent a rhetorical credibility to the notion of an urban renaissance in many parts of the First World . |
| 28 | By contrast , in the Rose Theatre case the judge seems to have been influenced to deny standing partly by the fact that the Trust had been formed only for the purpose of campaigning for the preservation of the remains of the theatre ; whereas the same judge in another case accorded standing to challenge a grant of planning permission to a representative of a snake-preservation society which had been active on the site in question for many years and had ‘ put money into it ’ . |
| 29 | Good start and I 've found by adopting this approach I 've been able to erm help clients in many areas which has saved them tax or making their money work harder for them . |
| 30 | But as I left my car and started to go into the house it was then that I realised I was falling under the spell of this Englishwoman who had been such a delightful and charming companion that day . ’ |