Example sentences of "been [adv] [adj] in [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Except that Sir John and I have been most zealous in this matter . |
| 2 | Picket-line relations have been most tranquil in those periods of British and American history characterised by ‘ consensus politics ’ — where trade unions have been accepted into the polity ( the government and those who are able to influence its policies ) as legitimate ‘ members ’ , rather than excluded as ‘ challengers ’ ( cf. Ragin et al. , 1982:241 ) . |
| 3 | My dad was a mason — I reckon he 'd have been right interested in these bricks . |
| 4 | In contrast simple probabilistic models have been extremely effective in some speech and language tasks . |
| 5 | Erm in Wales and Scotland also slightly better than people expected erm a rise was , was expected but not as strong as we , as we 've actually seen erm the Welsh and Scottish er economies , certainly there 's cle clear evidence in Scotland but I think one can read it for Wales as well , showing that the manufacturing economy er very much being buoyed up by the electronic sector erm and that probably er helping to explain why growth has been so strong in those parts of the country . |
| 6 | Getting laid has never been so cheap in all history . |
| 7 | Michael Rayer has given the selectors so little excuse to drop him , has been so sound in all aspects of play , that he has consigned possibly the most dangerous prong of the Welsh attack to the replacements ' bench . |
| 8 | Only indigenous breeds are described , but the British Friesian has been so dominant in this country that its history is included here , though the Friesian and Holstein are considered in more detail in the Netherlands and North American sections . |
| 9 | They must have been easily satisfied in those days , I should think . ’ |
| 10 | There might be regrets over giving up the novel , but after having been deeply interested in that form for many years ( even to the extent of writing one ) and often teaching courses on the novel , I have come to the conclusion that the pedagogic difficulties involved are extreme . |
| 11 | I feel Wallace would have been more effective in this match … to give that option . |
| 12 | However an increase is needed to take account of the growing number of elderly ( heavy users of the NHS ) and developments in health care technology , and increased spending has been more modest in some parts of the service , notably hospitals . |
| 13 | The emergence of the ‘ monarchical ’ bishop seems to have been more rapid in some regions and cities than others . |
| 14 | The hon. Gentleman has been noticeably reticent in this respect in the past . |
| 15 | It is evident — and I have emphasized the fact — that new political ideas have very often been formulated in direct response to the situations confronted by movements , parties and political leaders ; and the political thought of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has been exceptionally fertile in this respect . |
| 16 | Implementation of directives has been hopelessly inadequate in some countries , notably Greece and Italy . |
| 17 | She had n't been as long in this job as her last one , yet she knew there was a positive danger that she might soon be scouring the situations vacant columns again . |
| 18 | Resolved , That if it shall appear that any person hath been elected or returned a Member of this House , or endeavoured so to be , by Bribery or any other corrupt practices , this House will proceed with the utmost severity against all such persons as shall have been wilfully concerned in such Bribery or other corrupt practices . |
| 19 | But as a master of the ‘ sound bite ’ quote he has been surprisingly unconvincing in this campaign . |
| 20 | We have been particularly concerned in this report with perhaps the main exemplar of such a development : what has come to be called ‘ environmental scanning ’ . |
| 21 | We have been particularly concerned in this study with the large to very large enterprise . |
| 22 | But it was that 's what it that 's where er you know , there was he had been quite successful in this lawsuit you know , he 'd made quite a bit of money . |
| 23 | One thing he had confirmed , though , was the fact that he was living at Brooklands , his mother 's home , so Nina had been quite right in that respect , but it still left Rachel wondering why . |
| 24 | You implied erm that many of the women who were n't really aware politically in in fact may have been quite restrained in that sense |
| 25 | New Guinea has both such features , whereas Africa has been very stable in this regard , while contact with Laurasian floras has been restricted by desert barriers and this contrasts with the intermingling in other tropical regions . |
| 26 | We are accused of being the poor men of Europe , and I think we are economically and industrially the poor men of Europe or at least our performances have n't been very good in this respect since the War , but the other side is that because we are the poor men and are self-conscious about it , that we have compensated , in a sense , in the vitality of our music and of our culture , and certainly in the pop culture . |
| 27 | Now there 's no doubt that groining on the beaches has been very successful in many cases . |
| 28 | The work of the Association of Women of El Salvador ( AMES ) and other women 's organizations in the controlled zones and with refugees has been very impressive in this sense . |
| 29 | The newly-appointed C E O , Gary who took over at the end of the year when Gill retired has been very involved in these restructuring efforts and has been working very effectively and is on top of the situation , and although three swallows may not make a summer , I can at least tell you that Camco has traded profitably in each of the first three months of nineteen ninety three and now I 'd like to hand you over to Frank , who will talk about the rest of our business . |
| 30 | Well this came up actually on a on a radio sho er chat thing that was open to the public in Blaenau Ffestiniog last night er where the chair was saying erm well you know I mean a lot of the a lot of the people that have n't been very involved in this strike that I think should have been involved . |