Example sentences of "[vb base] be [adj] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've been fucking put this thing on and ! |
| 2 | You 've been busy doing this surgery , too . ’ |
| 3 | That Conservatives have been keen to sustain this argument should have sounded alarm bells for scholars of Conservatism , but the only alarming thing has been a tendency to accept this concept of Conservatism almost at face value . |
| 4 | We have been obliged to meet this difficulty by treating the lower prizes as marks of distinction for merit rather than as indicating special selection of the design as fitted for separate construction . |
| 5 | up to a point I have been able to illustrate this theme by drawing attention to contrasts which are likely to be familiar to all my readers , e.g. the difference in modern Western societies between monetary and non-monetary exchanges . |
| 6 | Attitudes appear to be somewhat unfavourable to ‘ welfare state ’ provision ; Newby ( 1979 ) suggests that influential local interests ( farmers and landowners ) have been keen to minimize local council house building in order to keep down rates — and through key positions on councils have been able to realize this objective . |
| 7 | The result has been that the Conservatives have been able to transform this country from the laggard of Europe in the hands of the unions with inflation well over 20pc to a lean , competitive economy with low taxes ready to take full advantage of the upturn when the recession ends . |
| 8 | I try to ride last so I can stop now and then to be alone , to look back and be glad that I have been able to come this way , but Tony has the feeling too and has bagged the back spot for the morning run . |
| 9 | Other researchers have been able to overcome this problem in split-brain patients . |
| 10 | Archaeologists have been able to follow this trade route across Europe from the Baltic to the Mediterranean by analysing pieces of amber with unique chemical properties which identify the source area in Samland . |
| 11 | In my own university , for instance , the number of first year students of biology that we have been able to accept this year has been entirely constrained not by the quality of our applicants but the physical size of our teaching laboratories . |
| 12 | At the time of writing , the NVC existed in draft form only , but we have been privileged to see this draft in order to prepare the following account . |
| 13 | The courts have been reluctant to undermine this power , typically either holding the claim non-justiciable as concerning a political question , or evading the issue by deciding the case on a narrower point . |
| 14 | Although academic psychologists have been reluctant to use this notion to cross the boundary between the normal and the abnormal , clinicians have for many years used a similar concept . |