Example sentences of "[vb -s] [been] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could go into land without asking permission and farmers would not even say a word , but that has been upset now . |
| 2 | His incursions into the line are always well-timed and his goal-kicking has been immaculate so far . |
| 3 | It certainly seems likely that the interior of the Earth has been hot enough for most of any deeply buried volatiles to have found their way to the surface , particularly if convection extends throughout the mantle . |
| 4 | Whilst other nations wrestle with the complex problems of a modern democracy , the questions of press ownership , the funding of political parties , wire-tapping , privacy , freedom of information , the control of the security services , and so on , Britain has been content either to stand aside altogether or to legislate for continuing trust and deference . |
| 5 | That he has used his linguistic skills to make such a protest , where before he has been content merely with linguistic cleverness , marks an important development in his character and it leaves the reader with a distinctly more favourable impression of him at the end of the play than at the beginning . |
| 6 | At the same time , funding has been insecure so that voluntary organisations are being encouraged to sell their expertise in order to fund their activities . |
| 7 | The denationalisation programme has been good not only for the consumer , but for share owning and the improvement of both investment and wealth in this country . |
| 8 | ‘ Because it has been good not having anyone else in our lives . ’ |
| 9 | I think my form has been good enough . |
| 10 | Since the argument ended , Mr. Beloff has been good enough to send us , by agreement with the other parties to Miss Calder 's application , extracts from the works of two legal historians who venture to express opinions on the legal position after 1873 . |
| 11 | The lord abbot here has been good enough to admit me to his confidence so far as is appropriate , since I was a witness of what happened this morning , but now you have cause to enquire further , as I understand . |
| 12 | ‘ Mr Hobden , this is Robert Sheldrake , who has been good enough to come with me , so you 'll have the benefit of two opinions . ’ |
| 13 | Taylor has been guilty before of overlooking the impact Gazza can have on a game . |
| 14 | This will be a far easier task if the initial advertisement/job description has been accurate enough to attract people with the right qualifications and experience . |
| 15 | Er there are two examples along the western route corridor of sites which I do refer to in in the statement , Hildebrand Barracks at , an army camp which er is expected to be vacated in the near future , and Queen Ethelbergers which has been vacant now for for almost two years . |
| 16 | Help has been available here for less than a month , but already word has spread and swelled the starving population from 10,000 to 30,000 . |
| 17 | Prescriptives , an American range that has been available here for 10 years , offers a unique collection of very wearable , natural colours . |
| 18 | San Diego-based TeleSoft Inc says its TeleAda-Exec Ada-oriented real-time executive , is now available for MIPS Computer Systems Inc R3000 target systems : up to now , it has been available only for Motorola 68000 and Intel 80386 targets , but it now works in conjunction with the TeleGen2 Ada VAX-host/R3000-target Cross Development System . |
| 19 | If , for instance , there has been a cold wind blowing for several days and the water temperature has been well down for the time of year , then the wind ceases and the sun brings a sudden warmth to the water , you can almost guarantee that the carp will begin to feed . |
| 20 | The 102nd Russian submarine fleet at Petropavlovsk has been alert ever since the international courts overruled the Soviet appeals and gave GenTech the right to conduct its surveys in the area . |
| 21 | The dubious research is that in which it is clear that the author has been disappointed not to have certain hypotheses upheld and is trying to talk ( or rather write ) his way round the evidence . |
| 22 | We must be satisfied that the insured person is legally liable and not just morally liable , i.e. he may feel he is responsible for some damage but unless he has been negligent then no liability exists . |
| 23 | The point is that for Callinicos , Nietzschean thought is an instance of Romantic anti-capitalism : that form of refusal of the implications of capitalist modernity which has been present virtually since the birth of that condition , described by Michael Lowy as ‘ opposition to capitalism in the name of pre-capitalist values ’ ( cited p. 67 ) . |
| 24 | The fact that we find fewer performance errors after scene six , coupled with a lesser tendency to talk at length , suggests that he has been shocked out of his absent-mindedness and emerges , at least for the rest of the play 's duration , as a more direct speaker . |
| 25 | This reversal provides the framework for an analysis of demographic change , but the trend has been uneven both spatially and socially . |
| 26 | The lake is on the edge of the National Park and , like many of the accessible Pyrenean lakes , part of the vast hydroelectric network of the region , which may mean that by late summer , if it has been dry down below , the waters have been piped off and the lake has shrunk . |
| 27 | Emmanuel Levinas , for example , whose career has been long enough to have introduced Husserl to Sartre in the thirties and to have been able to reply to Derrida in the seventies , proposes a rather different critique of such models of knowledge to those which we have encountered so far . |
| 28 | It seems as though the period of separation has been long enough for genetic differences to appear within populations but not so long that reproductive barriers have developed . |
| 29 | Learning by rote has been long out of fashion , but I loved reciting poetry , and can remember long poems learned when I was too young to understand the words , but just loved the sound of them . |
| 30 | Competition has been healthy rather than intense , and results are that close in some of the classes , that the overall winners will not be known until the Sunday evening . |