Example sentences of "[been] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several organisations have been signed-up to the rebuild and the schedule has the aircraft flying on the 50th anniversary date . |
| 2 | He had been an unsuccessful amateur jockey some fifteen years ago and had then been assistant to a leading jump trainer in Lambourn . |
| 3 | Geoffrey 's appointment was appropriate , as he had been assistant to the marshal in the Welsh war of 1282 . |
| 4 | Psychology ( another recent coinage , this time by John Stuart Mill ) was still linked with philosophy — A. Bain 's Mental and Moral Science ( 1868 ) still combined it with ethics — but was increasingly given an experimental orientation with W. Wundt ( 1832–1920 ) , who had been assistant to the great Helmholtz . |
| 5 | It would surely have been abhorrent to him . |
| 6 | The whole idea has always been abhorrent to us , and we were rid of it 14 years ago in 1977 , when we voted to secede from South Africa and re-assist control over our own affairs . |
| 7 | It is in the field of its own procedures that the Court of Appeal , in the past , has been receptive to the claim of substantive justice . |
| 8 | The marshy lands around Stirling and Bannockburn must have been inhospitable to these early settlers , but were to prove of incalculable worth to fourteenth-century patriots determined to assert their independence from southern predators . |
| 9 | It must have been awful to be separated from her children , as she and many other Jamaican mothers were . |
| 10 | Much of the research into the social psychology of racism has been narrow to the extent to which it has concentrated upon images of outgroups , rather than on the image of ‘ prejudice ’ or ‘ racism ’ itself . |
| 11 | Well he 's always been pleasant to me you got ta |
| 12 | But in private he affected too much modesty , and before 1922 had been junior to too many of them . |
| 13 | Had he been cruel to Sybil Vane ? |
| 14 | Over the passing years , time had been cruel to nearly everybody else . |
| 15 | Feminists have been antagonistic to psychoanalysis , seeing it as a means for the social control of women , although over the last few years , the mood has shifted , and psychoanalysis is being re-examined for its possible value to feminists ( see Sayers ( 1986 ) for an overview ) . |
| 16 | The racial card has been used to effect in previous New York elections , but in Mr Giuliani 's case he is being criticised as an opportunist for his attacks on the city 's first black Democratic nominee . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's a lot keener than I 'd been used to , because here you are not guaranteed a place . |
| 18 | ‘ We 've been used to fares running off without paying in the past , ’ said one . |
| 19 | Though the engine was 17 years old and had been used to pulling 40-tonne loads at 60mph , Mr Tomlinson did n't need to touch it . |
| 20 | It quite frequently happens that a horse that has been used to drinking out of a dam or stream , will always refuse water from a trough or bucket , irrespective of how thirsty it may be . |
| 21 | Whatever the explanation , other organisms , like trilobites or brachiopods , were more numerous in such sites , and have been used to date the rock sequences in the absence of graptolites . |
| 22 | Resorting to personal ties to survive or advance is a mechanism which has been used to some effect over the generations , but which prevents people turning to organisations or political activity which might , in the long run , prove more effective in solving their problems . |
| 23 | Cause he had been used to me lookin' after him doon at my mother 's hoose … |
| 24 | Decorative vaulting had been used to effect in England , but in Parler 's imaginative hands , first the crazy vault and then the net vault , reached their full potential . |
| 25 | If they have been used to rushing home from work or watching the clock during any stolen time with friends , they may find it hard to adapt to the fact that there is no longer any need to hurry back . |
| 26 | The Romans had been used to the idea of employing rams to push down walls , and catapults to throw stones at or over them . |
| 27 | That is not to say that I have n't met some canny little folk , but generally I do n't speak their language because I have never been used to them . |
| 28 | They will need space and comfort , perhaps a garden if they have always been used to one and enjoy gardening , and , above all , they will need a property that gives them some self esteem and security . |
| 29 | If he 's been used to lads ' nights out each week , and football practice on Sundays , you 're going to have to reach a compromise . |
| 30 | On the other hand , if she is someone who has been used to dominating those around her , you should quietly refuse to be included in her ‘ managing ’ tactics . |