Example sentences of "[been] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The traditional attitude of government has been that official information should remain secret unless the government chooses to make it available . |
| 2 | A shiver ran through Theda 's body — the frame that was near a shadow of itself , just as it had been that long-gone day in March . |
| 3 | The practical consequence has previously been that prolonged autoradiographic techniques were required . |
| 4 | Lord Carrington 's view has been that premature recognition would be a mistake , and Mr. Cyrus Vance — the Secretary-General 's representative — has made the same point . |
| 5 | One important consequence of the expansion of the capitalist world economy has been that individual economic actors ( like workers and entrepreneurs ) and collective economic actors ( like trade unions and TNCs ) have become much more conscious of the transnationality of their practices and have striven to extend their global influence . |
| 6 | He 's been that sad the last few days . " |
| 7 | The result has been that recent chancellors have been able to give free rein to their tax-reforming ambitions . |
| 8 | The conventional view has been that political strife was so intense between 1689 and 1715 because party divisions cut deep into society ; all elements of the population , from the gentry , through to the merchants , professionals , artisanal and trading classes , the small farmers , right down to the " mob " , were caught up in the rage of party . |
| 9 | The request may well have been refused had it not been that western doctors were keen to learn Chinese methods of ‘ variolation ’ ( inoculation with smallpox virus ) and , no doubt , Erskine would advise the Czar to send a doctor to Peking for that purpose . |
| 10 | The reason for this seems to have been that Victorian British industrialists looked for a quick return , while the Germans were more prepared to take a long view . |
| 11 | The result has been that major reforms are completely avoided and every minor reform is weakened or sabotaged . |
| 12 | The general impression has been that major capital schemes not requiring Treasury approval have been poorly appraised . |
| 13 | Dutch experience has been that close cooperation is needed between planners and all of these groups as well as others such as the police , mandating a cautious , incremental , flexible and thus costly style of planning . |
| 14 | The rule has been that young people intending to study medicine must forsake the humanities and social sciences for physics , chemistry and biology . |
| 15 | Over recent years the most popular explanation of Britain 's comparatively weak economic performance — and one which focuses mainly on the period of rapid decline since 1960 — has been that insufficient resources have been devoted to those parts of the economy which produce a ‘ marketable output ’ [ Bacon and Eltis , 1974 ; Eltis , 1979 ] . |
| 16 | But had it not been that actual set of people — Sam Phillips , the band , Elvis and The Jordanaires — the chemistry might not have been such that it worked . |
| 17 | If only it had been that nice John Smith , with his twinkling accountant 's eyes and trust-me smile . |
| 18 | In addition , there are for example licensing functions performed by the executive in respect of which the traditional view has been that procedural safeguards do not apply . |
| 19 | Bardsley put his teacup down and said in a melancholy voice , ‘ I was thinking of taking him into partnership , but business has n't been that good lately . |
| 20 | And now Dennis Gray has weighed in with a second version of his ‘ Life as a Climbing Tyke ’ — the first having been that marvellous tale of human bondage from 20 year ago , Rope Boy , or ‘ How I survived an apprenticeship with Joe Brown and started to love climbing ’ . |
| 21 | But no , that had been that other one , the wicked , overreaching Lucifer . |
| 22 | And there had been that other message … she had rung Cartier to speak to someone called Michael Watney , only to be told that there was no-one called Michael Watney working there , and did she mean Michael Courteny , and if so , would she hold on ? |
| 23 | Our luck has n't been that hot so far . |
| 24 | Always , in the background , in the dim recesses of her mind , there had been that niggling doubt . |
| 25 | The immediate reason seems to have been that Indian painters working for some of the Spanish and criollo masters complained of mistreatment . |
| 26 | A long-held belief has been that decorated cremation pottery , at least , was a product of specialist workshops which traded their wares ( Myres 1969 ) . |
| 27 | Or should he turn desire aside and pretend that there had never been that brief , blinding flare of longing between them ? |
| 28 | And there had been that brief time in the Wolfwood — I wo n't remember it ! thought Fenella , but she did remember it . |
| 29 | ‘ I ne'er liked telling it that way , like a fairy tale ; but he 's allus been that strong-willed … ’ |
| 30 | Like I was saying to one of the men in the section who has n't been that co-operative , like , I 'm only here for a year and you all know more than I will ever know about policing . |