Example sentences of "been [adj] [prep] [det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the end of Athens ' archaic war with Eleusis it would have been absurd for any deme of Attica to think of rivalling Athens . |
| 2 | and wild beyond er , that one boy who was and had n't been used to that sort of thing , for his father had kept a small cook stock his companion that unless he has another basin of gruel he was afraid he might , he might some night happen to eat , eat the boy he slept next to , who happened to be a weakly youth of tender eight and they , and they impeccably believed him . |
| 3 | Resorting to personal ties to survive or advance is a mechanism which has been used to some effect over the generations , but which prevents people turning to organisations or political activity which might , in the long run , prove more effective in solving their problems . |
| 4 | has been guilty of any fraud in relation to the company while an officer , etc. , of the company . |
| 5 | Mr Chapman was prosecuted under s 37 of the 1974 Act , which states that where an offence under any of the relevant statutory provisions committed by a corporate body is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of , or to have been attributable to any neglect on the part of , any director , manager , secretary , or similar officer , or a person who was purporting to act in any such capacity , he , as well as the corporate body , shall be guilty of that offence . |
| 6 | Lady Street had returned to what must have been normal for any morning at this time ; the delivery vans had gone , there was sporadic traffic in the one-way street , and people had no time to stand about gawping at the bookshop though they slowed their pace in passing and tried to look in without appearing to do so . |
| 7 | Whether it would have been possible against this background of practically continuous fighting in the south , more than a year before the first Vietnam war between France and the Vietminh is usually reckoned to have begun , for either side to have modified its objectives to the point where compromise could have been reached is obviously a question which is relevant to the origins of the Vietnam war and one must therefore look for the characteristics which , at least after the event , suggest a remarkably high risk of collision . |
| 8 | So far as the avoidance of an election commitment was concerned , this would have been sensible from any point of view . |
| 9 | Anyone who has been instrumental in this transformation of another person 's life through the impact of the Word of God and the Spirit of God will know that it is not his own doing . |
| 10 | Agribusiness that operates in sectors marked by seasonal fluctuations has been prone to this sort of employment . |
| 11 | At a time when over one third of the economically active population aged under 25 have been unemployed at some time in the last 12 months , the prospects of reaching 80 per cent owner-occupation without drastic policy changes seem dim ( Social Trends 15 , Table 4.26 ) . |
| 12 | Medau work has been popular in this part of Paris for the past eighteen years . |
| 13 | You could n't have expected it , he had been doubtful about this day from the beginning . |
| 14 | The situation would have been analogous in this respect to Halsey v. Esso Petroleum Co . |
| 15 | There has also been a proposal to increase the term of copyright to the life of the author plus 70 years , although this had been subject to some controversy within the EC . |
| 16 | And some of the buildup play has been tremendous in this period of time . |
| 17 | A statement issued by Glaxo says : ’ The company has consistently denied it has been negligent in any way in relation to the supply of Myodil , it voluntarily withdrew the product in 1987 , as it had been superceded by new products and technology . ’ |
| 18 | However , it 's all extremely well played , the Waltz is light as air , and the Elegy all the more moving for its having been relieved of any hint of bogus pathos . |
| 19 | Perhaps the Indians would have done so if they had been conscious of any pressure of numbers on the land , but North America was not crowded and the Indians assisted the new settlers and showed them how to grow the local crops . |
| 20 | Owen had been conscious for some time of growing movement in the courtyard below . |
| 21 | Many people have been glad of this device over the years , which has saved them from death or serious injury . |
| 22 | I 'd been welcome in that house for as long as you had-longer , because you were away and I just about lived there . |
| 23 | If a property is insufficiently furnished for full habitation , it may also have been unoccupied for some length of time . |
| 24 | However , it might be that psychiatric opinion would have been helpful on that aspect of the case . |
| 25 | The R.S.P.C.A. and the National Union of Mineworkers have both been involved with this form of contempt in recent years . |
| 26 | Only a minority have been involved in that kind of talk . |
| 27 | Catholic Caring Services is an approved adoption agency for the Diocese of Lancaster and has been involved in this work for 60 years . |
| 28 | Four hundred and forty two SERC-funded students have been Involved In this examination of initial destinations . |
| 29 | They believe Mr MacDonald may have been involved in some kind of argument shortly before his death . |
| 30 | The performance of students was also examined with regard to whether or not they had been involved in some type of formal study during the two years prior to entry to the DipHE . |