Example sentences of "been [adj] [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since 1987 it has been possible to ask your employer to deduct regular sums from your pay through the PAYROLL GIVING SCHEME up to a maximum of £600 per annum ( not all employers offer their employees this facility ) . |
| 2 | He 's never been afraid to show his vulnerability and songs like ‘ In Windows All ’ , a great , sweeping ballad , make a positive virtue of it . |
| 3 | A man who 's never been afraid to stick his head in among the flying boots , Moran 's medical records are thicker — and gorier — than a short horror novel . |
| 4 | The truth is it 's never been easier to pack your sack and experience at first hand the sensational scenery and classic challenges across the Channel . |
| 5 | He maintained his innocence and claimed he had been willing to give his life for Castro but had never been a communist . |
| 6 | Furthermore , BRAC has been willing to adapt its programme in the light of new findings , as demonstrated in the following brief description of Phase 3 . |
| 7 | It was often , and still is , alleged by his devotees that Charles I could have saved his life if he had been willing to abandon his Church . |
| 8 | There is a large and growing feminist literature in sociology which is much appreciated by women students , including influential and innovative collections stemming from the British Sociological Association 's conferences and study groups on Sexual Divisions ( see , for example , Barker and Allen , 1976a and 1976b ) ; there is the BSA women 's caucus which operates as a forum for women and as a pressure group within the profession ; there is also the work of the BSA Standing Committee on the Equality of the Sexes ; and many of the small number of women in positions of relative power in the profession have been willing to use their influence on behalf of other women . |
| 9 | Michael Sandusky has argued that United States troops could have assumed control of the greater part of Korea had Korea been identified as a priority and had MacArthur been willing to modify his decision to concentrate American forces in Japan prior to the official surrender on 2 September at the ceremony planned by MacArthur . |
| 10 | For the City has not been prepared to back his business with hard cash . |
| 11 | He had been prepared to put his money down then . |
| 12 | In 1989 , the wife of the " Yorkshire Ripper " was awarded £600,000 by a jury to compensate her for a false story in " Private Eye " , published eight years previously , to the effect that she had been prepared to sell her story to newspapers . |
| 13 | Because merchants paid enormous sums for the right to sell vodka , the imperial government had long been prepared to overlook their chicanery at the point of sale . |
| 14 | Torcy had himself been prepared to succeed his father , Colbert de Croissy , as foreign minister , by studying the diplomatic correspondence of Richelieu , Lionne and several of the most successful French diplomats of the early seventeenth century . |
| 15 | Nathalie Sarraute had never been prepared to accept his insistence on pure textuality , and both Robbe-Grillet and Claude Simon sought to distance themselves from the increasingly over-rigid application of his theories . |
| 16 | He told her he 'd been married once , long ago , but had been so bitterly hurt that , although he loved women , could n't live without them , he had never been prepared to trust his life to one ever again . |
| 17 | Mr Ashdown has always been careful to stress his belief that the revival of the party would require at least two general elections and his campaign was based on the need for long-term growth rather than on hope in the statistical quirk of a hung parliament . |
| 18 | But Cambridge City Council 's environmental health department warned that the success of the appeal did not set a precedent , and that the court had been careful to reiterate its concern at the ‘ grave breaches of the Food Hygiene Regulations ’ . |
| 19 | But the Clintons have been careful to keep their daughter out of the campaign spotlight , and friends predict she will adapt well to her new life . |
| 20 | It would have been sensible to consult my book of British butterflies before I started for I soon realised using authentic colours greatly improves the overall impression ; if you can , I would suggest you refer to a book also . |
| 21 | He was good with people : one day , when Madge trapped him outside the kiosk , Marie had been embarrassed hearing her prattle on . |
| 22 | A created universe , unlike one that had always existed , was one in which the Creator had been free to exercise His will in devising the laws that nature should obey . |
| 23 | He knew that she had not enjoyed his homecoming or the renewal of a sexual life ; throughout their married life he had been at home for only a few weeks at a time , and she had been free to make her life as she chose . |
| 24 | Whatever the pressures , Gomez had been free to make his choice . |
| 25 | It had been painful to watch her struggle for her self-respect , but she had managed to ward off the threatened nervous breakdown . |
| 26 | The perfect ambassador 's wife , according to one of the senior diplomats who had been delighted to promote her husband . |
| 27 | The Board has been delighted to congratulate her majesty 's government er in its insistence that factors such as public order should be taken into account in the fixing of a Europe wide alcohol pricing policy . |
| 28 | It would have been easy to nick his wallet at that point . |
| 29 | The Hellenic ideal is either patronized , or else upheld with vacuous rhetoric about " Greek harmony " , " Greek beauty " , " Greek serenity " ; while professional scholars , opting for a comfortable scepticism , have been content to pervert their subject by limiting its aim to textual and linguistic studies or the " historical " assimilation of antiquity . |
| 30 | It had been impossible to stop my body from charging but now it was impossible to fight off the fatigue . |