Example sentences of "[been] [adj] [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tumin claims that the American Medical Association has been guilty of this practice . |
| 2 | The significant results achieved using this text may have been specific to this domain and hence not necessarily repeatable in other domains ( i.e. the OALD may provide unusually good coverage of commercial or financial terminology ) . |
| 3 | Thereafter the play received a few critically acclaimed performances in Birmingham but has otherwise been unperformed in this country . |
| 4 | tournament administrator , said : ‘ The tournament really would n't have been possible without this sponsorship . |
| 5 | However , they were originally scheduled for different nights , but it has always been possible for this scenario to arrise , so why did n't they just schedule the matches to be played at the same time no matter what ? |
| 6 | This book has been written from the US Army 's court-martial records , something which would not have been possible in this country , where such records are closed to the public for 100 years . |
| 7 | Lynall Urwick put forward a counter-argument that a wide span of control had been possible in this example because the work of the merchandising managers did not interlock , and so the need for coordination and integration was not present : this reduced the burdens of supervision and made a wider span of control feasible . |
| 8 | Whether it would have been possible against this background of practically continuous fighting in the south , more than a year before the first Vietnam war between France and the Vietminh is usually reckoned to have begun , for either side to have modified its objectives to the point where compromise could have been reached is obviously a question which is relevant to the origins of the Vietnam war and one must therefore look for the characteristics which , at least after the event , suggest a remarkably high risk of collision . |
| 9 | The availability of omeprazole allowed us to achieve complete healing of oesophagitis in all our patients which would not have been possible before this drug was available . |
| 10 | Now if anything had been wrong with this shaft we used to have to go to the other shaft and ride that rope you see ? |
| 11 | Anyone who has been instrumental in this transformation of another person 's life through the impact of the Word of God and the Spirit of God will know that it is not his own doing . |
| 12 | Bill Chandler , of the Batelle Memorial Institute 's Pacific Northwest Laboratory in Washington DC , has been instrumental in this initiative . |
| 13 | Agribusiness that operates in sectors marked by seasonal fluctuations has been prone to this sort of employment . |
| 14 | Medau work has been popular in this part of Paris for the past eighteen years . |
| 15 | All coroners hold inquests on people who died aboard , if their deaths would have been inquestable in this country . |
| 16 | You could n't have expected it , he had been doubtful about this day from the beginning . |
| 17 | The situation would have been analogous in this respect to Halsey v. Esso Petroleum Co . |
| 18 | France has certainly been consistent in this stance . |
| 19 | If the freefall had gone better on Sunday then we would have been untouchable by this stage , but as it is the French are still ver close and their shooting will be very good . |
| 20 | John Brushwood from Hook End , has been hand-picked from this month 's lucky dip , as the winner of a year 's supply of Scuba World . |
| 21 | He argues that ‘ the failure of both disputes revealed and reproduced the regional nature of management-labour relations in the industry ’ ( p. 35 ) , because ‘ miners ’ interpretations of the two disputes , and of the underlying arguments , are understood as embedded in the nature of collective social relations at work … the constitution of workplace relations has varied between coalfields and … variations in management and labour strategies have been central to this process ' ( p. 36 ) . |
| 22 | And some of the buildup play has been tremendous in this period of time . |
| 23 | Two authors , at least , have been explicit on this subject . |
| 24 | No doubt she should have been alarmed at this thought but she remained excited by it . |
| 25 | Central America and Israel/Palestine have recently been prominent in this work . |
| 26 | In other ministerial changes announced on the same day by President Daniel Arap Moi , ( i ) John Okwanyo was appointed to the Water Development portfolio ; ( ii ) Matthews Onyango Midika replaced Okwanyo as Minister for Regional Development ; and ( iii ) John Kyalo was appointed as a Minister in the Office of the President , replacing Johnstone Muendo Makau who had been relieved of this post ( to which he had been appointed in May 1989 — see p. 36648 ) on March 2 [ for full Cabinet list as of September 1989 see p. 36917 ] . |
| 27 | Research findings have been ambivalent in this area and no firm results have been shown . |
| 28 | But can you honestly say you 've been cold in this house ? |
| 29 | It is fair to add that Leeds does not seem to have been unique in this respect : reporting on an inspection carried out in ‘ ethnically diverse areas within three LEAs ’ ( including five Leeds Phase 1 PNP schools ) in March 1988 , HMI remarked that ‘ none of the three LEAs had specific policies for parent school liaison ’ ( DES 1988a ) . |
| 30 | The Golf tickets are of particular interest , the B.C.Rly may have been unique in this respect . |