Example sentences of "been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , like me , you have learned that a certain amount of filamentous algae is an inevitable fact of modern pondkeeping , you may have been tolerant of its growth during the summer months . |
| 2 | The Labour government that died in 1951 had been tolerant of the corporate state , reverent of union power and credulous of collectivism , and its spirit persisted : by the 1970s half and more of those in full-time employment in Britain were employed , directly or indirectly , by the state . |
| 3 | More ( 1967 ) in a review of hydrological models in geography concluded that although there are large areas of overlap between hydrology and geography , the two disciplines have developed quite separately , that many of the hydrological models developed have not been geographic in their inception , but that geographers should not ignore the implications of the fast-moving science of hydrology . |
| 4 | With the thought of the malevolent listening bug on the sea-floor dominating every other in his mind , Talbot had sought Lieutenant Denholm 's advice on the question of noise suppression : Denholm had not been half-hearted in his recommendations , with the result that the use of all mechanical devices on the ship , from generators to electric shavers , had been banned . |
| 5 | The Guardian , Times and Evening Standard have been half-hearted in their approach to paperback originals ; and the lowest scores were notched up by Today and the Financial Times . |
| 6 | Several organisations have been signed-up to the rebuild and the schedule has the aircraft flying on the 50th anniversary date . |
| 7 | Over the years the impact of new taxes have invariably been harsher on small businesses . |
| 8 | Industrial discipline has always been harsher for manual than non-manual workers . |
| 9 | The Government have been woolly about the exact meaning of their proposals . |
| 10 | It 's hard to imagine now the armies of men working here and at Beldi Hill , but at one time the area must have been loud with the noise of men and their picks , crowbars , shovels , barrows , crushing hammers and water-wheels . |
| 11 | Opinion on the McSharry plan has been sharply divided with organisations dedicated to small and medium sized farmers joining with environmentalists in their support for it while leading figures such as the Minister for Agriculture , John Gummer have been loud in their opposition . |
| 12 | It must have been humiliating for her to accept that after helping him to create an empire within show business , he should choose to spend his time with a younger woman . |
| 13 | It would have been humiliating for her to say to her mother , ‘ I had nothing to do with it ; it was the bright boy who made the suggestion to the grand dame . ’ |
| 14 | He had been an unsuccessful amateur jockey some fifteen years ago and had then been assistant to a leading jump trainer in Lambourn . |
| 15 | Geoffrey 's appointment was appropriate , as he had been assistant to the marshal in the Welsh war of 1282 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Since the end of Athens ' archaic war with Eleusis it would have been absurd for any deme of Attica to think of rivalling Athens . |
| 18 | It would surely have been abhorrent to him . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | After attempting to defend ministers who had been hesitant in their support of the coup , Gorbachev agreed that the whole Cabinet should resign , and that the new Prime Minister should be a Russian — possibly Silayev . |
| 21 | Whereas , none of the bands I 've been in have ever been showbizzy in that sense , and if we 're in a bad mood then we play really badly . |
| 22 | Jonathon is a graduate of the Northern College of Music and has been professional as a viola and violin player for 6 years . |
| 23 | Santa shivered when Suzanne wrapped his body in cold , clammy bandages which had been pre-soaked in a solution of menthol , camphor , marine algae and alcohol . |
| 24 | Some of the speculation had been self-cancelling with newspapers predicting that the Government would take quite opposite courses . |
| 25 | The economy of these villages — in Mirpur , Jhelum or in East Punjab across the Indo-Pakistan border ( see Table 1 & map ) — has been feudal for centuries . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ Would n't it have been simpler for you to be independent back home ? ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In Chester-le-Street , which has been Labour since Genesis , the Liberal Democrat wins a school mock election ahead of the very pretty Conservative , with Labour last . |
| 30 | You have been asleep for the past two hours . ’ |