Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] they [vb past] [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the debate Lord Holland recognised the dread among the upper classes that the lower orders might be seduced by subversive principles , " particularly afloat at this moment " , but also considered that some masters were taking advantage of this moment to " enforce their views and render their workmen more dependent than they had hitherto been and than in all fairness and equity they ought to be " . |
| 2 | It is doubtful whether they had ever been such a serious liability to the Yorkist regime . |
| 3 | It is doubtful whether they had ever been such a serious liability to the Yorkist regime . |
| 4 | There is such a trajectory in theory , but it passes through intermediates that would have been — in the short term , which is all that matters — unsuccessful if they had ever been called into existence . |
| 5 | Soon after England began their reply there was a bad-light hold-up — probably unnecessary if they had all been wearing Bolle ‘ lifter ’ lenses — and upon resumption , Gooch and Stewart had to brace themselves against a torrid onslaught from Waqar , menace in every step of his run-up , and Akram , who bounded in and flung down something resembling Ivanisevic 's curving left-handed tennis serve , if only 30mph or so less swift . |
| 6 | Liddesdale was still a sullen , untamed region populated by people as prickly and hostile as they had always been . |
| 7 | Reminders of humiliation once again became priceless possessions , as emotionally valuable as they had once been legally essential . |
| 8 | In the course of the 1950s , the first signs appeared that the tactics used by Franco since 1936 to stay in power — repression , appeals for unity , apocalyptic visions of Republican " chaos " , and himself as arbiter among fractious regime forces — were less effective than they had previously been . |
| 9 | Nominating procedures were now more open and participatory than they had ever been before . |
| 10 | They were marching behind the others with great dignity , accountable as they had always been for good order and common sense and respectable behaviour . |
| 11 | Maggie was shown into a very expensive flat that overlooked the river and she had one of her rare glimpses of the owner as he stood with his back to a roaring fire and regarded her through eyes that were just as sharp as they had ever been in his youth . |