Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [been] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately the London Union has been strong enough to keep them entirely out but these London houses , as soon as they get beyond the sphere of the … |
| 2 | Taylor has been guilty before of overlooking the impact Gazza can have on a game . |
| 3 | But Perks has been surprised how varied City backgrounds are . |
| 4 | ( And how could Gyggle have been stupid enough to imagine that he was dead ? ) |
| 5 | Bartlemas and O'Rourke had been silent too long and burst again into stereo action . |
| 6 | Listen , I 'm going to tell you this and you can believe it or not : Uncle Mosse had been dead about a week when they took me in to identify him . |
| 7 | Oh God , if Valerie had been shocked perhaps she was going too far ! |
| 8 | It bucked wildly in the night sky , as if deciding whether or not Richard Branson had been lucky enough already , then righted itself and plied on through the night sky , swift and inviolate . |
| 9 | The rank and file of both the Socialist movement and the CNT had been frustrated enough at the limitations of social reform under the Republic ; when the Radicals and the right set about negating what little seemed to have been gained , militancy rose to new levels . |
| 10 | My father had helped Margaret during the early years , but directly Dickie had been old enough to board at his preparatory school Margaret had insisted on returning to nursing and becoming sole breadwinner . |
| 11 | No two boys and a girl , so it meant that two boys have to share a bedroom which they were n't doing in that other house and David 's been unemployed well |
| 12 | If Rees had been successful there , it would have meant that legislation would have had to be introduced into Parliament which would remove those legal disabilities affecting transsexuals which the court may find contravene the Convention . |
| 13 | On one side of the coin , there was an image of an ear of barley , plump kernels sprouting whiskers , each one finely raised in relief Ninfania had been arable before , not pastureland and orchards only , as today , but covered in fields of grain , a cereal basket of the ancient world , an Egypt . |
| 14 | The implication was that when it came to embroidery , the stitching up had been done on Merseyside , if Barnes had been fit enough to train for the last two days . |
| 15 | Ruth had been fortunate enough to find a job in Ilkley . |
| 16 | The economy of the Cape Verde Islands has been precarious ever since the Portuguese discovered the uninhabited archipelago around 1460 . |
| 17 | ‘ Helen has been adequate up till now , though she has n't actually seen this operation . |
| 18 | Hasan had been unbearable ever since his Occultation . |
| 19 | It was the first time she and Willi had been alone together . |
| 20 | Neither Jochen Mass nor Patrick Tambay did much to push him towards fresh championships ; his Number One status in the team was assured without effort , and I have often been led to wonder what would have happened if Teddy Mayer had been smart enough to hire a young hot-shot to give Master James a needed shot in the arm . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He had evidently acquired , as well as friends , a few influential enemies , notably vice-kapellmeister Vogler , whose playing and compositions Mozart had been foolish enough to criticize . |
| 23 | Kevin had been poor then and unable to get home for the funeral . |
| 24 | Although Joe had been careful not to criticise Chris to Maureen he felt indignant with him . |
| 25 | By a notice of appeal dated 20 July 1992 the Official Solicitor appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that since the judge had found as facts that ( a ) T. had been able properly and fully to form a balanced judgment and had not been acting under undue influence but had been acting voluntarily , and ( b ) her several expressions withholding consent were valid refusals which bound the hospital , ( 1 ) he had erred in finding himself entitled to make the declaration ; ( 2 ) it had been wrong for him to assess T. 's subsequent intentions and to make assumptions as to whether she would have qualified or changed her refusal in the later circumstances ; and ( 3 ) he had erred in finding that ( a ) there was no evidence that T. had wished to refuse a blood transfusion even though it was at risk to her life , ( b ) lack of understanding of the risks involved justified acting against her expressed refusal , ( c ) her withholding of consent did not embrace the emergency which had arisen and took no account of changed circumstances , ( d ) her expressed refusals did not evince a settled intention to persist in her refusal even if injurious to her health when her best interests required a transfusion ; and ( e ) he was not satisfied that her refusal was continuing . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Saint Winifred has been happy here seven years and more , and to this house she has returned . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Bill Clinton has been back-pedalling quietly on his promises to tax the daylights out of foreign companies . |
| 30 | Sheena Easton has been shrewd enough to ride Prince 's coat-tails just so far and no further , without letting her identity be submerged . |