Example sentences of "[been] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Labour government that died in 1951 had been tolerant of the corporate state , reverent of union power and credulous of collectivism , and its spirit persisted : by the 1970s half and more of those in full-time employment in Britain were employed , directly or indirectly , by the state . |
| 2 | Several organisations have been signed-up to the rebuild and the schedule has the aircraft flying on the 50th anniversary date . |
| 3 | The Government have been woolly about the exact meaning of their proposals . |
| 4 | It 's hard to imagine now the armies of men working here and at Beldi Hill , but at one time the area must have been loud with the noise of men and their picks , crowbars , shovels , barrows , crushing hammers and water-wheels . |
| 5 | Geoffrey 's appointment was appropriate , as he had been assistant to the marshal in the Welsh war of 1282 . |
| 6 | Psychology ( another recent coinage , this time by John Stuart Mill ) was still linked with philosophy — A. Bain 's Mental and Moral Science ( 1868 ) still combined it with ethics — but was increasingly given an experimental orientation with W. Wundt ( 1832–1920 ) , who had been assistant to the great Helmholtz . |
| 7 | It is in the field of its own procedures that the Court of Appeal , in the past , has been receptive to the claim of substantive justice . |
| 8 | You have been asleep for the past two hours . ’ |
| 9 | Iain Ogilvy McWhirter ( Senior English and Religious Instruction ) had been asleep for the past ten minutes , but Tom Tedder ( Art and Woodwork ) said ‘ Arrgh ’ through closed lips , and that seemed to do well enough . |
| 10 | Mr Clifford , for anyone who has been asleep through the entire summer , is to jilted mistresses what Zimmer frames are to decrepit old ones . |
| 11 | Had he been asleep at the time ? |
| 12 | He was also the most relaxed of batsmen , often having been asleep in the dressing-room before going out to the middle . |
| 13 | He 's been asleep in the car . |
| 14 | In fact , the revenue has been stable for the last three years . |
| 15 | Injury statistics and trends show that after substantial reductions in recent decades , employees fatalities appear to be levelling off at about 1.6 per 100 000 employees and that the reported major injury rate for employees has been stable over the last three years . |
| 16 | The range of this regular pulsation is only 0–02 per cent of the Sun 's radius , but it has been stable over the full 250-year span covered by the various sets of observations . |
| 17 | Pijnenborg et al point out that ‘ many doctors ’ participate in and accept the practice and they claim that the practice has been stable over the years and assume that it may be less in future . |
| 18 | Much of the research into the social psychology of racism has been narrow to the extent to which it has concentrated upon images of outgroups , rather than on the image of ‘ prejudice ’ or ‘ racism ’ itself . |
| 19 | Even if Crabb 's next-of-kin had been dissatisfied with the official explanation and had made such a fuss that the government was forced to hold some sort of inquiry the truth would still not have been told . |
| 20 | One of those who had attended the initial meeting in September 1967 , an independent radical Matt O'Leary , had been dissatisfied with the aims of NICRA . |
| 21 | In fact it seems more likely that Picasso felt that the Demoiselles as he decided to accept or leave it represented a truly astonishing challenge with which he himself must come to terms ; obviously if he had been dissatisfied with the look of the painting he would not have left it as it is , and it has been argued that the stylistic discrepancies within the painting are essential to its iconography , to the message which it is intended to convey . |
| 22 | Indeed , it should be emphasized that Picasso had been dissatisfied with the limitations imposed on pictorial volumes by a scientific or linear system of perspective for some time before he became aware of the fact that Cézanne 's painting suggested a new concept of form and space . |
| 23 | Both proposals , little changed in respect to the previous , have been controversial within the Commission itself and are still causing problems among the member states . |
| 24 | The appointment of Tapie — who was not a member of the ruling Parti socialiste ( PS ) although as a deputy for the " presidential majority " he had voted along with it — had been controversial within the PS . |
| 25 | Any offer of help , even if presented as a humanitarian gesture , would have been controversial in the US and Israel , which still sees the PLO as a terrorist organisation . |
| 26 | It would have been opportune for the committee to examine the whole purpose and function of A levels , to see whether they were needed at all ; or whether , if retained , they should be radically changed . |
| 27 | Both establishments had open fronts so that conditions for employees could not have been pleasant during the winter months . |
| 28 | Mr Morley is understood to have been depressed since the death of his wife from cancer nearly two years ago . |
| 29 | ‘ She had been depressed during the last 18 months but I thought she was getting better . |
| 30 | I happened to see Sir John Woods [ Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade ] tonight and he told me that Sir Stafford Cripps had been reading the minutes of Cabinet committees during his absence [ in India , where he had been for nearly four months trying to reach a settlement which would lead to independence ] and had been depressed by the amount of time and energy taken up in the Ministerial Committees with the discussion of quite minor matters which individual Ministers ought to settle in their discretion . |