Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [verb] [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it is fair to say that , compared with 1986 , far more emphasis was placed on the data about publications ( of which a much greater quantity was submitted this time ) , i.e. the judgments have been more ‘ output led ’ . ’ |
| 2 | Some of the contracts have been straight business deals whereby the Provisionals and the property owners split the profit from the government compensation . |
| 3 | The Pakistanis have been incensed all summer by mutterings that they only make the old ball swing so violently by tampering with it . |
| 4 | An electoral alliance , the Nationalist Action for Peace ( Acción Nacionalista por la Paz ) , was unexpectedly announced on Feb 7 by Carlos Pizarro Leóngómez , leader of the left-wing guerrilla April 19 Movement ( M-19 ) , and José Joaquín Matallana , a former Army general who as Director of the Department for the Administration of Security ( DAS ) in the mid-1970s had been responsible for combating the activities of the M-19 and other guerrilla groups . |
| 5 | Of course it is good to see artists at work and artists discussing their work on TV , but so many of the programmes have been disappointing . |
| 6 | The damage was double : the exposure to the flames had been long enough to cause severe burns to his face , head and hands ; worse , he had been forced , as the flames consumed the oxygen , to inhale volatile fuel and smoke , both of which critically affected his lungs and blood . |
| 7 | Er , sometimes it 's for tax reasons , sometimes it 's for er , for , for , for erm , er , reasons such as last year when er , we wrote down our , our stake by some seventy one million erm , it was because at that point the financing for B Sky B was not yet er , at all clear because the shareholders had been unable to agree at that point erm , that they would guarantee the two hundred or so million that er , needed to go in before the er , project became successful and so there was a genuine doubt on the financing . |
| 8 | Erm i the discussions have been interesting . |
| 9 | Since the Criminal Justice Act 1967 , the Courts had been able to suspend a sentence of imprisonment , but not to require part of it to be served in custody with part suspended . |
| 10 | For some time before Rylands v. Fletcher the courts had been concerned with the extent of a person 's liability for the escape of an accumulation of water from his land during the normal course of mining operations . |
| 11 | From a very early period the courts have been opposed to restrictions upon the free alienation of land . |
| 12 | The courts have been reluctant to bring omissions cases within the above categories , manifesting once again their belief in the separate moral and legal status of omissions . |
| 13 | Even when successful prosecutions have been brought , the courts have been reluctant to impose little more than nominal sanctions on miscreants . |
| 14 | The courts have been reluctant to undermine this power , typically either holding the claim non-justiciable as concerning a political question , or evading the issue by deciding the case on a narrower point . |
| 15 | So far , the courts have been reluctant to hold that the press has a " moral duty " to inform an interested public . |
| 16 | Regrettably , the courts have been prepared to allow their procedures to be exploited by governments keen to obtain a glimpse of potentially embarrassing material prior to publication . |
| 17 | However , despite Lord Morton 's words quoted above , in some cases the courts have been prepared to interpret clauses restrictively even where liability could only arise in negligence . |
| 18 | In others , where the courts have been unable to find any contract between the parties , the courts have had to rely on an equitable doctrine of confidence . |
| 19 | For a century or more both Parliament and the courts have been careful not to act so as to cause conflict between them . |
| 20 | Where the shareholders also happen to be the directors , and a close personal trust and confidence is involved , the courts have been willing to look at the settlement of arguments on the basis of equity rather than strict legal principle . |
| 21 | In the past the courts have been willing to interfere only to a limited extent in the use of prerogative power . |
| 22 | This decision is in line with those , like Padfield , where the courts have been willing to limit ministerial discretion on various grounds , some of them relatively new , at least in their present application . |
| 23 | Throughout the thirties the Germans had been eager to displace the British . |
| 24 | Should the Germans have been surprised ? |
| 25 | What is more disturbing today is that the Germans have been quicker and more successful to recognise the causes of the decline in their research community than we have in the UK . |
| 26 | However , from such a small island herd the exports have been phenomenal and it has spread from the tropics to the Arctic . |
| 27 | An understanding had been arrived at with the Danish Tourist Board that nothing of the fabric or the furnishings and fittings in either the Tuscan Villa or The Tamarisks should be altered ; the houses had been complete works of art when they were taken over and were to be respected as such . |
| 28 | Some of the dates were release dates but they were not all genuine because one of the prisoners had been able to interfere with the computer and ‘ reduce ’ the sentences . |
| 29 | A political storm which had developed in September around the proposed sale of 35 small islands in the Bay of Argolis and the Saronic Gulf abated after a government official , Byron Polydoras , on Oct. 14 assured journalists that the proposals had been that " certain rocky islets " should be leased — not sold — " on a long-term basis for tourist development " . |
| 30 | The times have been hard on you , these last weeks . |