Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [been] [adj] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gerald has been married and divorced 4 times . |
| 2 | American policy on Afghanistan has been reactive and government spokesmen have been reluctant to define the permissible political bounds of the Afghan regime after a Soviet withdrawal . |
| 3 | And again she found herself thinking that maybe Jeff had been right and Guido was simply an insufferable bully , the type of man it would be all too easy to fall out with . |
| 4 | Dr Neil had been kind and friendly to her when she had served him breakfast . |
| 5 | The night before , Marie had been restless and unable to sleep . |
| 6 | Angela Brickell had been small and light ; a pushover . |
| 7 | Cadfael had been awake and afield more than an hour by then , for want of a quiet mind , and had filled in the time by ranging along the bushy edges of his peasefields and the shore of the mill pond to gather the white blossoms of the blackthorn , just out of the bud and at their best for infusing , to make a gentle purge for the old men in the infirmary , who could no longer take the strenuous exercise that had formerly kept their bodies in good trim . |
| 8 | Most LEAs have been unwilling or unable to improve their ‘ global ’ budgetary provisions for clerical and administrative support for schools . |
| 9 | Since then , however , new material on Constantine has been forthcoming and this adds significant new dimensions to the picture . |
| 10 | Alan had been busy and had arranged the cremation for the following Wednesday morning . |
| 11 | The ploy had worked surprisingly well , especially when Candy had learned that Bernie had been successful and that Ace Elliot was to be the star guest . |
| 12 | Athens had been hot and noisy , but it had had a human heart . |
| 13 | ‘ It was because I could n't stop myself , because I was driven by the need to know if what I 'd felt in Sintra had been real and still existed . |
| 14 | And some of those Americans in England had been influential and important people . |
| 15 | That — arrogant brute had implied that her mother had taken his family for a ride financially , yet , according to Ruth Russell , Isabelle had been pregnant and penniless , reduced to working as a mother 's help when Hugh met her . |
| 16 | Constance promised that she would , but she was so afraid of the outcome that she knew she could n't , not until she and Ludovico had been married and she was beyond her mother 's power . |
| 17 | An inquest opened yesterday where the coroner heard Mrs Patterson had been depressed and receiving hospital treatment . |
| 18 | ‘ And the most stark example of it all is the phrase that the Queen and Prince Philip had been sympathetic and supportive . |
| 19 | One can imagine that if Xerxes had been successful and absorbed Greece into the Persian empire , Greek archaic art might have crystallised in the decorative academic formulae which characterise Achaemenian ; while the threat and its repulse can be seen as the catalyst which released the spirit of Hellenism , flowering in the fifth century as richly in literature and thought as in the visual arts . |
| 20 | Forester had been perfectly correct , the happenings at Langstone had been gross and illogical ; he 'd chosen simply to deny involvement and ignore them . |
| 21 | The fact that King Arthur had been Romano-British and engaged in a struggle against Saxon invaders made the whole thing even more nonsensical , but Schellenberg had long since ceased to be amused by the excesses of the Third Reich . |
| 22 | Edith had been pregnant and alone , the salesman abandoning her when she had told him her condition . |
| 23 | Haig-Thomas had been cheerful and good-natured , and never once had we quarrelled . |
| 24 | He stated that , at several times during the following hours , Mr Oliver had been clear-thinking and articulate . |
| 25 | As Hilary Land points out in the first of her articles reproduced here , the TUC had been ambivalent and suspicious about the introduction of family allowances throughout the 1930s . |
| 26 | Tavett had been shaky but in the end unmoved : he added nothing and changed nothing of what he had said on Saturday . |
| 27 | By the time he had been through that and was ready to return , Jennifer had been married and divorced and was almost a stranger again . |
| 28 | Jennifer had been restless and we had n't been getting on very well . |
| 29 | You can still see it going on today and it still happens does n't it like the Good News Bible if you look at that , I mean this a version of the Bible rewritten , presumably to tell people good news I do n't know , I 've never , never read it but I presume that that 's what the Good News Bible does and we now have countless bibles , where , where , where , where God is , God is female erm my guess is supposing that were the only Bible we had a feminist bible were no other bible and everybody for hundreds of years believed it , my guess is that in the future literary critics and bible critics could study that very carefully and I bet you somewhere there you 'll find internal evidence to show that once God had been male and had his gender changed , I 'm quite sure of it because edit a whole book like the Bible and completely eliminate all the evidence that God was once male would be a very difficult here , here and there you need little bits of evidence and , and again there 's lots of others I 'll mention in the lecture like God 's name . |
| 30 | At that time , he was not suspicious of any burglars but thought that Sara had been careless and had left the window unlocked . |