Example sentences of "been [adj] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus even the earliest and most modest collection of phrase structure rules would have been pregnant with new output ; and as the rules became entrenched so too would innovative effort and diagnostic insight become more relaxed and automatic , as words appeared newly combined in well-understood syntactic contexts . |
| 2 | Runcorn opened on June 1 and has been terrific with small fish all along and bream at Astmoor and S Bends . |
| 3 | He has been friendly with Holy Trinity 's vicar since teaching him at theological college in Durham . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , only minimal control over this basic aspect of construction has been possible with these devices . |
| 5 | Bought deals have only been possible with Big Bang and the advent of large well capitalised securities firms , but the risks being taken on are extremely large . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | It has always been popular with Middlesbrough-born singer-songwriter Chris Rea . |
| 8 | The notion had not been popular with many of the arts people in the Council , and he recalls one lady saying in a meeting that she would ‘ not give up one page of Beowulf for all the science in the world ’ . |
| 9 | That may be why chatlines , costing up to 48p a minute , have been popular with young people since they were set up in the late Eighties dangerously popular , in some cases . |
| 10 | Situated right in the centre of the village this hotel has always been popular with British holidaymakers . |
| 11 | The Strass has been popular with British holiday-makers for many years , and is conveniently situated in Mayrhofen 's main street , next to the Penken cable car . |
| 12 | The inspiration for the experiment was the German Jugendherbergen accommodation which had long been popular with English trampers and cyclists . |
| 13 | In practice this second exception is unimportant because bearer securities have never been popular with English investors or English companies and are rarely issued and hardly ever in respect of shares , as opposed to bearer bonds , ( i.e. debentures ) which are sometimes issued to attract Continental investors who have a traditional liking for securities in bearer form . |
| 14 | Since this is similar in shape to a cubic curve a cubic model has been popular with some authors . |
| 15 | Surveys of attitudes have been popular with some researchers . |
| 16 | It 's lucky I was n't in the water then floating , cos that would 've been dangerous with that boat going past . |
| 17 | " I should have been honest with that child this morning . " |
| 18 | Indeed during the Second World War a British officer of some distinction , Fitzroy Maclean , had actually arrested Zahedi on grounds he had been intriguing with German agents . |
| 19 | Advertisers themselves frequently complain that decisions in apparently similar cases have not been consistent with each other . |
| 20 | The Christian despotism of Louis XIV had been content with outward obedience rather than the subjection of the heart : Hitler and Stalin were mass-murderers because for them outward obedience was not enough . |
| 21 | For a long time it has been content with this unchanging splendour but more recently it has treated itself to a quartier in the most modern style , complete with a magnificent new concert hall , the Corum ( which unfortunately appears to have been built on ground that it is less than stable ) . |
| 22 | In an attempt to find the causes for their disappointment many who would normally have been content with everyday party politics turned to more radical solutions . |
| 23 | ‘ They 've been besotted with each other more or less since they were children . |
| 24 | Throughout the course of medical history , Scottish names have been synonymous with some of the greatest advances in science and Prof Gibson will be remembered as the pioneering force behind tissue transplantation . |
| 25 | She had been unpopular with militant nationalists , who suspected her of being too conciliatory towards Moscow , and they voted down her price rise proposals on the grounds that they might prove socially divisive and thus weaken Lithuania 's resistance to Soviet pressure . |
| 26 | Stalemate prevailed on the Italian Front and all their offensives on the Western Front had been frustrated with heavy loss — at Neuve Chapelle ( March ) , at Ypres ( April ) and in Champagne and at Loos ( September ) . |
| 27 | In 1983 , in order to extend the international scope of our work , a survey questionnaire that had been pre-tested with social work educators from Australia , India , Israel , and the United States was mailed to all member colleges , universities , and national affiliate associations of the International Association of Schools of Social Work and to a list of individuals who had been identified as experts on paraprofessional social welfare personnel in their own countries or internationally . |
| 28 | These three genera seem to form a natural grouping ( Box 2 ) and in the past they have been confused with one another : in commenting on the original description of the Buluk specimens , Deslon suggested that they should be attributed to Kenyapithecus ( rather than to Sivapithecus , as they then were ) , and in an addendum to their original description of Heliopithecus , Andrews and Martin recognized the affinities of that genus to Afropithecus , which was published just before Heliopithecus . |
| 29 | Captain Bowen said it was possible commercial aircraft did not pick up a signal from the emergency beacon , and the radio messages could have been confused with another vessel . |
| 30 | He has frequently , but erroneously , been confused with another Master Adam , canon of Paris , who became bishop of St Asaph in 1175 and died in 1181 [ q.v. under Adam Angligena ] . |