Example sentences of "been [adj] [prep] [art] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , the recollection that the Friend had once been guilty of the same fault is a consolation to the Poet , for he now knows how the other must have ‘ bowed ’ under his own , ‘ transgression ’ : They are equal , then — but more , they are united : ‘ Oh , that our night of woe might have remember'd/My deepest sense how hard true sorrow hits . ’ |
| 2 | Britain has been subject to the same decline in long-stay beds and has responded in the same way as other European countries to this fall in the mental hospital population . |
| 3 | You 've both followed international careers , acquiring a cosmopolitan patina , you 've both been involved with the same man … |
| 4 | Syl was more of my mother 's generation than my own but it had never occurred to me before that he and she and Lili must all have been young at the same time . |
| 5 | They must have been close to the same age , but Sandra looked very young , like a petulant child wearing the costume of a grown woman . |
| 6 | The question to be addressed by an industrial tribunal in a particular case is whether a man would have been dismissed by the employer if , in the same circumstances , he would have been absent for the same length of time for medical reasons . |