Example sentences of "been [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was therefore held to have been guilty of contributory negligence and the widow 's damages reduced . |
| 2 | 12–7– They dealt with " Mary Trotter who before joining the Free Church has been guilty of antenuptial fornication and that while a communicant . " |
| 3 | Equally , in the case of John Main at Inverkeithing , he and his two fellow excisemen were threatened with the board 's displeasure in 1752 , when the collector of Bo'ness accepted , without any enquiry into the facts , an allegation that they had been guilty of excessive drinking and had thereby neglected their duties . |
| 4 | The delays appear to have been due to administrative confusion and a lack of political will . |
| 5 | Bought deals have only been possible with Big Bang and the advent of large well capitalised securities firms , but the risks being taken on are extremely large . |
| 6 | Even as a small boy , Thomas had been interested in mechanical toys and as he grew up he determined to become an engineer like our father , who was a regular Royal Engineer . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've always been interested in old furniture and I 've swotted it up a bit in my spare time . ’ |
| 8 | The inspiration for the experiment was the German Jugendherbergen accommodation which had long been popular with English trampers and cyclists . |
| 9 | Pension funds have been subject to close scrutiny and performance measurement . |
| 10 | Over the past 2 years it has been subject to extensive repairs and its site to archaeological investigation . |
| 11 | But if this were the case why has the local-central state system been subject to continuous conflict and occasional crisis ? |
| 12 | There is an enormous variety in the urban experience that this book can not hope to explore to any great extent : different cities have been subject to contrasting pressures and have responded in different ways . |
| 13 | In many respects the management of GEAR has been ineffective : goals have been defined too broadly , simply to ensure consensus ; organizations have been assimilated within GEAR for purely cosmetic purposes ; power has been too diffuse ; and too much has been made of environmental improvements when the local economy has been subject to dramatic changes and unemployment has risen substantially . |
| 14 | Evaluation of its performance is hazardous because it has not generally been subject to commercial practices and norms [ Pryke , 1981 ] . |
| 15 | And yet in this area , too , Karajan has been subject to rebarbative questioning and criticism , not least on the grounds that an interest in technology is somehow incompatible with a man 's credibility as a performing musician . |
| 16 | A collection of essays edited by Ellen Kennedy and Susan Mendus , Women in Western Political Philosophy ( 1987 ) , presents a feminist perspective on questions that have been central to political philosophy and raises questions about the philosophical underpinning of political theory . |
| 17 | As I have reminded groups before now , the reality of incarnation has been central to Catholic spirituality and practice ; that is not so true of other traditions . |
| 18 | These questions have been central to recent studies and the answers may be unexpected . |
| 19 | Issues about women 's autonomy have been central to feminist thinking and action . |
| 20 | The development of the retinue would have been impossible without royal backing and reflected , rather than negated , the king 's authority . |
| 21 | The development of the retinue would have been impossible without royal backing and reflected , rather than negated , the king 's authority . |
| 22 | The fields surrounding the churchyard had long ago been relieved from private ownership and lumped together into one huge collective farm . |
| 23 | Half-built houses had hitherto been exempt from local taxes and the country was full of new ‘ housing developments ’ , which amounted to little more than forests of concrete stumps and rusty struts and braces . |
| 24 | The royal court in Egypt was then one of the most cosmopolitan in the work ; Fawzia was sophisticated and had been accustomed to great luxury and pampering , no least from her doting brother . |
| 25 | As a gardener 's daughter she would have been accustomed to muddy boots and black finger-nails . |
| 26 | By that time it would have been halfway to low water and too late to dispose of the body in the old sewage outfall that night . |
| 27 | The effects of the full implementation of the changes would have been substantial for particular areas and many small businesses would have been badly affected . |
| 28 | Margaret O'Mara , a classicist and economist who has spent almost twenty years in the Treasury where she has been involved in monetary policy and the control of public expenditure . |
| 29 | He is a modes man who appears genuinely bemused by the British reaction to him : ‘ I have always been impressed by British democracy and the irony is that — although I have differences with the British leaders from time to time — I sometimes feel my kind of federalism is better understood in Britain than by some of the federalists elsewhere in Europe who always cry , onwards , onwards ! ’ |
| 30 | Since then , he has been late on numerous occasions and we believe his alcohol consumption has increased . |