Example sentences of "[been] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a tenable hypothesis that Bayezid II did indeed set a pattern and that many of the later foundations involving a joint muderris/muftilik were made simply in imitation of his precedent , though their effect might have been to create an official muftilik where none had existed before or to upgrade an existing muftilik ( which latter may well have been Bayezid II's intention in Amasya and Istanbul ) . |
| 2 | However , the patterns of species diversity do not coincide with those of endemism and one of the present ‘ refugia ’ seems to have been underwater 5000 BP and its endemism must have arisen subsequently . |
| 3 | ‘ Sometimes they have been over- social , or captain of school — or Dr Faustus in the school play . |
| 4 | It is important to note that most of the authorities which have experienced the more punitive forms of grant limitation and all but one of the authorities which have experienced rate capping have been Labour controlled . |
| 5 | The characteristic of all those areas is that for a long time they have been Labour controlled , although Conservatives have been in control in Brent for the past year and the Liberal Democrats have recently been in control in Tower Hamlets . |
| 6 | The important point is there 's been fifty eight regional speakers and eleven C E C and officers . |
| 7 | It must of been fifty one , June |
| 8 | ‘ Have I been asleep long ? ’ |
| 9 | Unless he 'd been asleep all the time ? |
| 10 | ‘ If you had n't been asleep all this time , you 'd know that we are nearly there . ’ |
| 11 | out , he says to me you 'll kill yourself , you always want to do something , but to be honest it 's worse for me to sit there and watch that , it 's more tiring because by the end of the night I 'm not tired or I 've been asleep all evening I , I 'm better to go out , I know it sounds awful but I do n't like being trapped , I do n't like being in because somebody seems to think I should be in |
| 12 | In January 1946 bread rationing had recently been re- introduced , the franc had just been devalued , inflation was galloping , and Indochina was in crisis . |
| 13 | And so , black with anger , hot for revenge , the nine hundred invaders , who had once been eleven hundred , marched , sword in hand , towards Scone . |
| 14 | There have been eleven black directed films released in the US in 1991 so far , with another eight ready to go and an uncounted number in production . |
| 15 | Been dry all day . |
| 16 | The bill was then sent to the House of Councillors — the Upper House — where , since the election of July 1989 , the LDP had been largest single party but had lacked an overall majority . |
| 17 | Middlesbrough Council spokesman Mike Clark said the £15,000 available for grants had been over-subscribed four times . |
| 18 | His work rate has been prodigious all season , and although he may not have the quickest service around , he must rate currently as the world 's no 1 scrum-half . |
| 19 | ‘ The schoolmaster looked out of the window across the square to the castle where he announced to the class that the flag was flying at half-mast , so he popped out to find out why , thinking it might have been dear old Queen Mary . |
| 20 | What had not been right that day ? |
| 21 | Dot had been right all along and Mrs Parvis wrong when she 'd insisted that it was all over bar the shouting . |
| 22 | ‘ I actually think that people in a democracy respect a leader who will say I have not been right all the way along the line . |
| 23 | These are the forecasts of ace City analyst Nick Knight — and he has been right all the way through sterling 's crisis . |
| 24 | The Daily Mirror has been right all along in accusing Pakistani cricketers of obtaining extra swing over the years through illegally roughening one side of the ball by scratching it with fingernails or even ripping the red leather surface . |
| 25 | He had simply been angry and believed that it meant he had been right all the time and that his sister really was in Hepzibah 's Power . |
| 26 | You will soon see that I have been right all this time . |
| 27 | I now had the distinct impression that headvoice had been right all the time , that it was in fact down to me , or rather the old ‘ guilty conscience ’ ( which is well known to be capable of playing up without proper cause ) , playing tricks with my head . |
| 28 | Her last waking thought had been that she was wrong , and that Ace had been right all the time . |
| 29 | Such evidence is now beginning to appear and I believe that my hon. Friends and I will be proved to have been right all along in our predictions of the effect of the student loan scheme . |
| 30 | Her teacher had been right all those years ago , reflected Busacher . |