Example sentences of "been [adj] [prep] those " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh yes oh yes in my thirty odd years erm looking back now it must have been primitive in those days really . |
| 2 | Clearly their views may have been different from those of the people who died , but respondents are likely to have taken into account the reactions of their relatives and friends , and how these respondents felt about the care in the homes is also of interest and concern . |
| 3 | The Professor 's own American sign language would have been unintelligible to those present . |
| 4 | It has not always been easy for those working class voters who see the Greens as an undisciplined bunch , inimical to the interests of industrial society , to keep up with the SPD 's enthusiastic appetite for environmental matters . |
| 5 | Equally , while the procedure which produced the Enham texts may have been similar to those responsible for some of Æthelstan 's codes and I Edmund , the promulgation of archiepiscopal admonitions as royal decrees is also reminiscent of those issued by Henry II after the synod of Dortmund in 1005 . |
| 6 | Careers in management , the tax inspectorate , accountancy , computing and in central and local government have been prominent amongst those chosen in past years by graduates . |
| 7 | The building society claimed repayment of interest under the provisions of section 35A of the Supreme Court Act 1981from the three dates on which the payments were made , on the ground that the principal had been repayable on those dates as sums paid pursuant to an unlawful demand . |
| 8 | In the yard at the back , a slow burning bon fire added to the pong which could not have been good for those living nearby . |
| 9 | On Aug. 26 , Citibank blamed the Indian banking system for irregularities in its Indian operations and denied that it had " accommodated " or had been involved with those implicated in the scandal . |
| 10 | Young , innocent , they had been malleable in those hands which were so practised in making something valuable out of raw or damaged material . |
| 11 | And women have not been present in those circles with the result that they have been deprived of the means to participate in the construction of forms of thought which are relevant or adequate to express their own experience , ( Spender , 1981 , p. 3 ) . |
| 12 | Its sudden arrival on the scene must have been embarrassing for those who have been trying to deny that federalism was on the agenda . |
| 13 | The flapping of their wings and the strange cries they make would indeed have been eerie for those who Mew nothing of bird migration . |
| 14 | I came to believe that I had been responsible for those terrible things , that I was to blame , that I must be very bad . |
| 15 | The last few years have been depressing for those of us trying to move house . |
| 16 | Even the chickens must have been ashamed of those parts of their bodies when they were alive . |
| 17 | Maybe if chlorophyll tablets bad been available in those days they might have helped but as it was I had tried everything . |
| 18 | As a result of investigating unsolved problems in biology , including how a seed or egg can contain the essence which grows into the new individual member of the same species , he postulated ( something which has long been familiar to those with a spiritual or esoteric background ) the existence of what must , by implication , be a non-physical mould or pattern , what he calls a ‘ morphogenetic field ’ , which survives the death of the physical form , and which shapes the individual tree , animal and flower of each species , just as the individual field around a magnet can create a pattern in a scatter of iron filings . |
| 19 | While awaiting the views of the European Court , will my right hon. Friend bear in mind the fact that Presbyterians in Scotland enjoy shopping on Sundays and that has not been detrimental to those who wish to attend church ? |
| 20 | A West Point cadet would have been proud of those shoes already . |
| 21 | No question now , married or not , had it been apparent to those who might gossip about it , that she was alone . |
| 22 | To make matters more complicated , where aid programmes have sought to channel funds to small-scale farmers , or small businesses , the real priorities of the target beneficiaries have seldom been identical to those of the donor or the government . |
| 23 | In the case of Japan , writers such as Fox ( 1980 ) stress that long-term planning based on market research has been vital in those areas where innovation , and not just importation , of technology has occurred in Japan , such as the consumer electronics industry . |
| 24 | In recent years enemas of 5-aminosalicylic acid ( 5-ASA ) have proved effective for treatment of distal ulcerative colitis and results have been comparable with those from steroid enemas . |
| 25 | John Smith would have been aware of those risks yesterday . |