Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | JOHN MCKAY , NDO for Management , has been seconded from Glasgow College where he has been Senior Lecturer in Marketing since 1973 . |
| 32 | Engineers in Germany successfully fired thrusters on Aug. 7 to boost the European Space Agency ( ESA ) US$400,000,000 Eureka research satellite to an altitude of 507 km from a dangerously low orbit of 100km where it had been stuck due to data communication problems . |
| 33 | It is the recognition of this principle and its implications which is particularly characteristic of Labov 's approach to data : ‘ for the section of speech being examined all occurrences of a given variant are noted , and where it has been possible to define the variables as a closed set of variants , all non-occurrences in the relevant environments ’ ( Labov 1982a : 30 ) . |
| 34 | Recall the requirements of this principle ( cf. 6.1 ) that ‘ all occurrences of a given variant are noted , and where it has been possible to define the variable as a closed set of variants , all non-occurrences of the variant in the relevant circumstances ’ ( Labov 1982a : 30 ) . |
| 35 | The professional role has been minimal , and , where it has been relevant has been facilitative rather than directive or initiating . |
| 36 | The Red Poll 's greatest successes overseas are in Jamaica , Brazil and other Latin American countries where it has been instrumental in the creation of types bred for local conditions , such as the Jamaica Red , Pitangueiras ( Brazil ) , La Velasquez ( Colombia ) , Senepol ( US Virgin Islands ) and possibly the Romosinuano ( Colombia ) . |
| 37 | When climbing on rough rock I reverse the jacket to protect the Pertex layer from tearing ; although I 've been surprised just how robust the garment is , given a total weight of just 600g . |
| 38 | Because the tentacled exter was a living legend — of crime — as he had been for longer than I 'd been alive . |
| 39 | ‘ It 's a lot keener than I 'd been used to , because here you are not guaranteed a place . |
| 40 | I borrowed one of my dad 's mail-order magazines , and , leafing through the screeds of bankrupt stock , out-of-date and obsolete machines , put together a portable package capable of holding huge chunks of typically verbose Mortonesque meanderings , and spitting them down telephone wires eight times faster than I 'd been used to . |
| 41 | Retracing my steps , I realized with a shock that I was no more able to find my way back to the village than I 'd been able to find the place we 'd been raking . |
| 42 | Ex-motorcycle gang member with murder , kidnap and serious drug offences going on longer than I 've been alive . |
| 43 | ‘ I 've had no problem recruiting — I 've had far more offers than I 've been able to use . |
| 44 | The question I I have is quite a simple one , and that is I would like to actually see this pond slightly closer quarters than I 've been able to . |
| 45 | Situations are more dynamic than I have been able to describe . |
| 46 | Hello folks , my boss has been away this morning so I 've been busy scanning a few leeds picies and saving them as gif files . |
| 47 | Jenny gave me a house-warming present of a radio so I 've been able to listen to music while I write — and it 's been such fun ! |
| 48 | ‘ They 've said he 's 100pc , so I 've been able to dispel any fears I had after the accident . ’ |
| 49 | April is a particularly heavy month , so I 've been ultra-selective here . |
| 50 | ‘ In Nigeria I only knew of Guinness as the stout and Harp lager so I have been surprised by the diversity of the company , ’ reflects . |
| 51 | And although she 'd been sad to be leaving her family behind , she had been looking forward to a few weeks ' holiday and then — a new job , a new life . |
| 52 | He had kept on and on about those keys , although she had been deaf to his insistence ; he had come several miles to catch her at home and seize a chance to rifle her bag for them ; if there had been any purpose to the meeting at the Old Mitre it might have been to get the keys . |
| 53 | Although she had been unaware that the small print contained a wide exclusion clause , the Court of Appeal held that the clause protected the seller from liability in respect of defects in the machine . |
| 54 | For the past twenty-four hours , she had swallowed none of her medication , although she had been unable to refuse an injection . |
| 55 | Although you have been unwilling to do anything about your feelings of dissatisfaction , today is the time for less talk and more action on your part . |
| 56 | Storm or no storm , she could no more have returned to the inn than she had been able to return penitent to the bosom of her family six long years ago , when the same stigma would have been laid to her then as had been laid to her now . |
| 57 | She was contributing more than she had been able to before to her mother 's household expenses . |
| 58 | oh , and they 'd been married , what she 's ten years older than you had been married |
| 59 | And so you 've been able to help a number of firms . |
| 60 | Once she had been proud of being rootless , but now she was beginning to feel like a boat without a rudder . |