Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [pron] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the French Referendum it 's been hectic . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | Clairol 's Free Curl heated styler has been designed with moving style in mind — it 's a cordless , gas powered appliance which has been OK 'd in the checked-in luggage on planes so it goes wherever you do . |
| 7 | She stood back , still holding his hands and saw tears appear in the eyes of the old man who had been more of a Father to her than her own Father . |
| 8 | She considers this ‘ probably the most exciting thing I 've been involved with . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | In case you think I have been having a merry old time , I 'd better tell you also that I have been staying up to the small hours as there has been such a lot of preparation to do , and the course participants have also been keen to make use of our presence by asking all kinds of questions about English etc. , so this is literally the first free time I have been able to make since I have been here . |
| 11 | 4 Reasonableness in the public interest It has been common in the past to underestimate the importance of public policy or the public interest in the restraint of trade doctrine . |
| 12 | Of all the sons , CHARLES Tennant was the most successful ; by energy and business acumen he established a vast industrial conglomerate and became progenitor of a distinguished family who have been eminent in world commerce for 200 years . |
| 13 | Two others , a Mr. and Mrs. Ackers , were parents of a deaf girl who had been orally-educated by them at home . |
| 14 | Meanwhile member countries sought to agree on measures to introduce a single internal market within the EC by Jan. 1 , 1993 , as agreed under the Single European Act which had been effective since July 1987 [ see pp. 35534 ; 34107-08 for terms ] . |
| 15 | With a limited budget it has been difficult to acquire top quality works by artists on the museum 's list , however they have been fortunate in being able to purchase Robert Loder 's ( Honorary Curator of Prints , Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge ) collection of 363 prints , while other works were acquired from Marlborough Fine Art . |
| 16 | There was no logical reason why they should add to the vague tension he 'd been conscious of all day . |
| 17 | The meeting was addressed by David Bellamy and by Gerry Wilson , a retired Canadian geologist who had been head geologist for Holannah , one of the biggest mining companies in the world , and who knew intimately the industry he attacked so fiercely . |
| 18 | The following day she had been able to tell him that he had n't been there , and had demanded the truth . |
| 19 | However , despite early adoption there have been considerable doubts as to the effectiveness of such rational approaches . |
| 20 | Since early morning there has been intermittent drumming in different parts of the village and the echo rolls round the valley like the stifled rumblings of a caged lion . |
| 21 | But before I take the first step out of here , I think I 'll feel pretty good about the knowledge and inquisitive spirit I 've been able to share and the doors I 've helped open . |
| 22 | Even in her semi-conscious state she had been able to give them the phone number of her sister Margaret in Australia . |
| 23 | Or how about Sir George Gardiner , the Thatcherite MP who has been one of the Major Government 's most persistent critics ? |
| 24 | Sadly the very dry weather we have had over the last two summers has meant that even young bulbs have not been able to bulk up their energy supplies and so the following year they have been unable to produce flowers . |
| 25 | It has also been seen in a more subtle form in the moves in Sierra Leone in the 1970s and Liberia in the 1980s by the ‘ truly indigenous ’ or tribal population to take economic power away from the creole population which had been active in trading and business for more than a century . |
| 26 | In the previous parliament there had been 8 Official Ulster Unionists who had accepted the Conservative whip and considered themselves part of his party . |
| 27 | In Norfolk on one large site there have been three serious accidents involving falls from heights , and in Suffolk a case has just been sent to crown court after a man fell through an asbestos roof on a farm . |
| 28 | ‘ A charitable woman who had been active in the Nationalist movement gave us rooms in an old house and collected money from her friends . |
| 29 | They both looked up to see a short , wiry little man who had been table-hopping beaming down at them . |
| 30 | Ironically , it was change that had driven Tubby back to active service — change in civvy street and in the set ways of the pre-war world he had been used to . |