Example sentences of "been [adj] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Labour government that died in 1951 had been tolerant of the corporate state , reverent of union power and credulous of collectivism , and its spirit persisted : by the 1970s half and more of those in full-time employment in Britain were employed , directly or indirectly , by the state . |
| 2 | If sociobiologists have tended sometimes to describe higher societies ( such as man 's ) too much as if they were simpler ones , some entomologists have been guilty of the reverse . |
| 3 | A general reading of the book encourages the suspicion that the principle of verification is being used , not simply to exclude some clear and obvious errors , but to cut out swathes of philosophical tradition that have never been guilty of the crude misconceptions of which they are accused by Ayer . |
| 4 | In other words , the recollection that the Friend had once been guilty of the same fault is a consolation to the Poet , for he now knows how the other must have ‘ bowed ’ under his own , ‘ transgression ’ : They are equal , then — but more , they are united : ‘ Oh , that our night of woe might have remember'd/My deepest sense how hard true sorrow hits . ’ |
| 5 | On the contrary , the child imagines that only unworthy female persons have thus sacrificed their genital organ , such persons as have probably been guilty of the same forbidden impulses as he himself . |
| 6 | He confessed that he might inadvertently have been guilty of the second on occasion and freely admitted to taking gifts of the third kind , which he regarded as entirely permissible . |
| 7 | She had more than once been guilty of the unkind opinion that the gaunt , ageing nun had a somewhat masculine cast of countenance . |
| 8 | When they turn to the handling charge they must presume that he is not guilty of robbery ; and , if they are quite satisfied that he must have been guilty of the one offence or the other , they are bound to conclude that he was guilty of handling . |
| 9 | Well , they have been afraid of the Russians for so long that they have learned to live with it . |
| 10 | When they were children , she said , the villagers had been afraid of the forest folk . |
| 11 | To tell him the truth — that she 'd been afraid of the depth of her own feelings — would be far too revealing . |
| 12 | Since the 1920s women have been free of the burden of high fertility which previously would have given them young children to cope with for more than two decades of their adult life . |
| 13 | When the negotiations began at Dalat it was Giap who assumed the principal role on the Vietnamese side and while , as communists , they might have accepted a smaller but communist state that could conceivably have been free of the French , it was as nationalists that the Vietminh argued their case for indissoluble national unity . |
| 14 | And had his voice been able to cut through metal as it cut through the early morning air , then they would all of them have been free of the Cages in moments . |
| 15 | Neither of us could claim that those exchanges have been free of the features that I have just identified . |
| 16 | N F U and C LA could surely not have been oblivious of the fact that this shortage was one which farmers and landowners , in their role as councillors , had been responsible for creating . |
| 17 | ‘ If this bank had played a role in the Hoylake/BAT battle it would have been top of the table , ’ said Philip Healey , editor of Acquisitions Monthly . |
| 18 | ‘ At Manchester United I have been top of the table in April and still lost it . |
| 19 | FOR more than a decade Sainsbury 's has been top of the shop parade . |
| 20 | It was their ninth year together , and they had been top of the bill at the Palladium in the West End six years running . |
| 21 | Always boobs have been big business , blondes have had more fun , ‘ sexuality ’ has been top of the agenda and brains have been a distinct disadvantage , as we have tried to emulate the qualities of the famous beauties our men salivate over . |
| 22 | There were 37 attempted and full burglaries and once more hi-fi and electrical equipment has been top of the burglars ' list . |
| 23 | Miss Logan was a vigorous and seemingly practical woman some ten years older than Miss Fergusson , and had been fond of the Colonel without any zephyr of indiscretion arising . |
| 24 | Parents and families in the reception areas were shocked by what they saw and heard , incredulous that they could until then have been ignorant of the deprivation within a society which they thought they knew well enough . |
| 25 | And I do n't believe for one moment that you could have been ignorant of the fact that she was wealthy . |
| 26 | Ever since the Mountbatten thing , they 've all been nervous of the publicity . |
| 27 | ‘ If students have been convinced of the necessity of collective action , gained self-respect and respect for their peers , they will have a message that they can use and will want to spread . |
| 28 | While the French have long been convinced of the value of massage with natural ingredients in the treatment of cellulite , the British are sometimes sceptical . |
| 29 | Of course psychologists , unlike their medical colleagues in psychiatry , have never really been convinced of the reality of such categorisations of psychosis . |
| 30 | No one had any comment to make for the excellent reason that everyone had already been convinced of the fact . |