Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has my right hon. Friend been able to consider that point yet ? |
| 2 | In the normal run of things , had a verbal warning been necessary — which it certainly was n't — then it was without question that Naylor Massingham would certainly not have wasted his precious time on such trips , but would have delegated one of his underlings to do it . |
| 3 | Only in the last hundred years have most people in the developed world been able to read and write . |
| 4 | The Cabinet might also have looked different had the Tory majority been smaller . |
| 5 | Has interactive video been effective ? |
| 6 | Cross-border banking is essentially wholesale banking and has to a large extent been dependent on euro-currency deposit growth . |
| 7 | Organ jazz has for a long time been club-trendy but it has taken until now for a new artist to come through to match the likes of Jimmy Smith and ‘ Big ’ John Patton with whom she shares a clear affinity in her choice of rhythms and blues inflections . |
| 8 | Special education has for a long time been fertile ground for curricula based on linear models of learning , guided and assessed through hierarchies of objectives . |
| 9 | I have for a long time been suspicious of the doctrine of gradualism in politics and the foibles of the Foreign Office , which uses the double-speak of diplomacy , as I saw in the Anglo-Irish diktat and now smell in Maastricht . |
| 10 | Had exogenous surfactant been available during the study eight of the 13 ventilated infants in the random group would have qualified for ‘ rescue ’ treatment by entry criteria for recent multicentre trials compared with only two of the 13 ventilated infants in the regulated group ( p<0.02 ; χ² ; test ) with obvious financial implications . |
| 11 | Unlike almost the whole of the rest of Roman law , trusts had by the end of the classical period been actionable in cognitio for centuries . |
| 12 | Had Robson 's calming influence been available to United against their neighbours , then they may not have lost their composure and the chance to move four points clear of Leeds . |
| 13 | But the mention of a ‘ jubilant horn ’ in Jagdlied or ‘ jangling spurs ’ in Reiselied stirs him to immediate response , and in the dreamy melancholy of Schilflied or the elfin scherzo tinged with drama of Neue Liebe ( with which the disc artfully opens ) we can see the song writer he could have been had his general approach been different . |
| 14 | The political stability of the Republic and its economic and social achievements have by common consent been admirable . |
| 15 | Although he promotes himself as a friend of John Major , the Conservative Party has for some inexplicable reason been unable to find him a job in the Government where his extensive talents could be stretched . |
| 16 | Had her new lover been one of his pals it would be insulting — but not this insulting . |
| 17 | There is discrimination however against people working part time , for instance , in the universities ; and only since April 1986 have part-timers in local government been able to join . |