Example sentences of "been [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The weather had been dry for some time and , fanned by an easterly wind , the fire spread rapidly until , within three days , it had engulfed most of the city . |
| 2 | He was therefore held to have been guilty of contributory negligence and the widow 's damages reduced . |
| 3 | 12–7– They dealt with " Mary Trotter who before joining the Free Church has been guilty of antenuptial fornication and that while a communicant . " |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The significant results achieved using this text may have been specific to this domain and hence not necessarily repeatable in other domains ( i.e. the OALD may provide unusually good coverage of commercial or financial terminology ) . |
| 6 | The delays appear to have been due to administrative confusion and a lack of political will . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It seemed as if they 'd been wrong about one thing and only too right about the other . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've always been interested in old furniture and I 've swotted it up a bit in my spare time . ’ |
| 10 | She had been listless for some time and the woman could only hope that moving her right away from the influence of the people she went around with into these beautiful surroundings might bring her back to herself . |
| 11 | Pension funds have been subject to close scrutiny and performance measurement . |
| 12 | But if this were the case why has the local-central state system been subject to continuous conflict and occasional crisis ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Issues about women 's autonomy have been central to feminist thinking and action . |
| 17 | In fact this shift has been visible for some time and seems at present to be increasing . |
| 18 | The development of the retinue would have been impossible without royal backing and reflected , rather than negated , the king 's authority . |
| 19 | The development of the retinue would have been impossible without royal backing and reflected , rather than negated , the king 's authority . |
| 20 | The fields surrounding the churchyard had long ago been relieved from private ownership and lumped together into one huge collective farm . |
| 21 | Research findings have been ambivalent in this area and no firm results have been shown . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She had been ill for some time and , driving back again to Cardiff to join my father , I reflected on the sadness that parents can never know what their children owe them . |
| 24 | Roach , who was a producer , director and screenwriter , had been ill for some time and was under the care of doctors of the Motion Picture and Television Fund Hospital , a hospital spokeswoman said . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | New Zealand have always been good in this department and that is why we are going there ’ , explained coach Lin . |
| 27 | She had guessed that the reason was something to do with Jennifer for she had known that her sister had n't been well for some while and had been undergoing tests since experiencing stabbing pain in her right eye and numbness in her legs . |
| 28 | Of course he 's not been well for some time and he did n't take care of himself . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | All three of the speakers presenting papers had been involved in this review and discussed different aspects in their contributions . |