Example sentences of "[vb base] been [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There have been small leaved lime trees at Westonbirt in Gloucestershire for 6,000 years . |
| 32 | In the period that I mentioned there have been substantial further job losses in the coal industry and some further job losses in the steel industry . |
| 33 | There have been useful specific contact with El Salvador , Guatemala and Malawi . |
| 34 | They have been prominent reef-building organisms too , often in association with bryozoans . |
| 35 | There have been serious methodological limitations to much of the research implicating personality factors in anorexia nervosa . |
| 36 | Prime movers in the recent development have been hyperactive local Mick Ryan , ably assisted by Mark Radtke and John Holmes , who have produced a number of excellent and atmospheric pitches between them . |
| 37 | Meanwhile , both British Nuclear Fuels and the French operation , Comega de France , have been encouraging Eastern Europe to sign deals by which the waste would be reprocessed at their plants in the West . |
| 38 | It is open to any local education authority to tilt its scheme towards primary schools and I have been encouraging local education authorities , where appropriate , to revise their schemes with precisely that aim . |
| 39 | The rains have been good this year , and the crop has been bumper , but tobacco is fetching only 93 American cents a kilo at international auctions — less than half the price expected . |
| 40 | Concealed miniature radios and microphones which use wires other than telephone have been other bugging expedients . |
| 41 | Some widows who have been moderate social drinkers begin to drink more during bereavement , in order to take the edge off their emotional pain ; but this of course creates more problems than it ever solves , so you should never encourage your elderly parent to start taking ‘ tonic ’ wine for her ‘ nerves ’ or a tot of whisky at night to help her to sleep , for you may be helping her to establish a habit that can easily get out of control and become very hard to break . |
| 42 | Slavery and imperial domination have been crucial social forces in the emergence of a modern world order , characterized by the striking inequalities which provide the essential backdrop to an understanding of the post-Second World War migrations of black communities to Britain , and which continue to generate migratory pressures on peoples from the Third World . |
| 43 | It ca n't be any coincidence that the women he has gone out with have been typical English roses with titles , and the Duchess tops the lot . |
| 44 | There have been distinct evolutionary changes in the focus , style and methodology of evaluation . |
| 45 | Australian test-tube teams have been freezing spare embryos since the programme began in 1981 — partly to avoid having to throw unwanted ones away — raising questions ranging from the ownership of the frozen embryo to who pays compensation if it is damaged . |
| 46 | THE MORAL guardians of Germany and America have been active this week ensuring that youth are not corrupted by ‘ obscene ’ record sleeves . |
| 47 | THE MORAL guardians of Germany and America have been active this week ensuring that youth are not corrupted by ‘ obscene ’ record sleeves . |
| 48 | Christophe Lázar : For the past two years I have been active expanding Colnaghi 's presence in Europe , Asia and South America . |
| 49 | The Turkish slaughtermen offer the ubiquitous Turkish tea , a strong bitter brew known as chi , which invariably precedes all conversations , and the RAOC Master Butcher and his three British and two Belgian butchers , who have been busy all night cutting and jointing , now prepare themselves to assist in the slaughter of the cattle and sheep . |
| 50 | Enthusiasts Julian Mitchell and Stephen Arnold have been busy restoring Mk V BL370 near Oxford for the past three years , after recovering the hulk . |
| 51 | Marry , so there have been diverse good plots devised and wise counsels cast already about reformation of that realm , but they say it is the fatal destiny of that land that no purposes whatsoever are meant for her good will prosper or take good effect , which whether it proceed from the very genius of the soil , or the influence of the stars , or that Almighty God hath not yet appointed the time of her reformation , or that He reserveth her in this unquiet state still , for some secret scourge which shall by her come unto England , it is hard to be known but yet much to be feared . |
| 52 | Previous patrol boats have been semi-rigid inflatable boats . |
| 53 | The children have been difficult this weekend I do n't know what 's a matter with them , I think they 're just |
| 54 | In just three months , Kaliber was reformulated for the Spanish market and launched by Cruzcampo in July 1992 as Kaliber Sin , containing 1 per cent alcohol In the six months since its launch , sales of Kaliber Sin have been double original expectations . |
| 55 | Avoiding the copyright-protected names of bears that have been British National newspaper features for decades was quite easy for innovative owners of the new skydiving brood . |
| 56 | In certain areas , particularly on islands and in places where there are species which are not at all adapted to cope with cats as predators ( and that includes the whole of Australia ) , there have been dramatic adverse effects on populations of a variety of species of small animals because cats are allowed to roam around . |
| 57 | The most substantive changes have been considerable upward adjustments in prices paid to farmers , which have had a positive effect on output . |
| 58 | ‘ Two games against Barnsley have been tight this season and we must be on our guard . |
| 59 | Three of the most successful organic concerns so far have been Welsh Organic Foods in Lampeter , West Wales Organic Growers and Brynllys Farm in Aberystwyth . |
| 60 | Novel animal patterns such as these have been big all year — and they show no sign of disappearing just yet . |