Example sentences of "been [adj] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not an appropriate analogy as fairy tales and pantomimes are the Devil 's tools , I 'm sure — Ness District deleted ‘ Devil 's Dance ’ from the SCO posters — but all that had been asleep was now activated . |
| 2 | A woman who has never been pregnant is referred to as nulligravida ; a woman pregnant first time as primigravida , and at later pregnancies as multigravida ( see pregnancy order ) . |
| 3 | But , unlike Locke , Parker omitted to account for this self-evidence , and so laid himself open to the objection of James Lowde , a defender of innateness , that such truths would not have been self-evident were they not innate . |
| 4 | The results of this survey would have been entertaining were it not for the fact that this is such a serious subject . |
| 5 | Theorists who reflect about the ways in which things might have been different are bound to consider the question of what might have made events take another course . |
| 6 | one of the nicest things that happened to me since I 've been widowed is having Neil to look after not only is he an exception |
| 7 | Dowty 's three-pronged attack in areas of high technology where profit has often been elusive is proceeding better than the interim results suggest . |
| 8 | The outcome of the strike and its immediate consequences was that for almost the first time many people , including politicians in the Republic , who had previously been unconvinced were now satisfied that the majority of people in Northern Ireland would not accept a united Ireland and wished to have another election before their future was again discussed . |
| 9 | Even though it was unsupported by evidence , the conclusion would have been allowable were it not for the second piece of information contained in the warning message . |
| 10 | Anyone who has advanced money for the payment of the employee debts which would have been preferential is subrogated to the rights of the employee . |
| 11 | They were proof that the support we had been convinced was out there really did exist . |
| 12 | Jackson ( 1973 : 145 ) shows that these interests were hidden by the demands of style , as in the semi-detached properties which employed a basic frame but added a spurious individuality on the façade in order to make the house more attractive to prospective buyers , or the modernist-style buildings , which proclaimed their scientific nature to the degree that elements of the internal construction which would not normally have been visible were externalized onto the façade to display a commitment to the appropriation of new technologies . |
| 13 | Whether or not the directors themselves had been negligent was not in issue , but it is suggested that a finding to that effect would have been more problematical . |
| 14 | If it is true that Socrates ( during the relevant period of his life ) is bald , then to say that this could have been false is a contradiction in terms . |
| 15 | I , yeah cos last time you when come over he was supposed to have been ill were n't he ? |
| 16 | The distinction between a statute creating a public right and a statute prohibiting what had previously been lawful is not a satisfactory one as it does not appear to be based on any particular principle . |
| 17 | That planning has been poor is more the fault of the economy than BR , the high interest rates at the end of 1989 being seen as likely to repeat the recession of 1981 out of which we climbed so painfully . |
| 18 | All might still have been well were it not for the rupture-discs on the vents above the reactor . |
| 19 | So the kind of joint ventures which the EC — and in theory the British government — has been encouraging are not allowed . |
| 20 | In the British context , Wenger ( 1984 ) found that married people were most likely to name a spouse as the person in whom they could most easily confide ; people who had never been married were most likely to name a brother or sister ; widows were most likely to name a child ; and in general , the likelihood that a child would be named increased with age . |
| 21 | Next to Trinity Church where Dadda and Mother had been married was the old people 's home called Sunningdale . |
| 22 | It would have been unlikely were it not for the introduction of the microcomputer , and in the UK the installation of microcomputers in large numbers of secondary schools has stimulated perhaps more of this work than anywhere else . |
| 23 | IT has always been tough being a woman , but never quite as hard as now . |
| 24 | It had , however , been tough being Bernard 's son , until he removed himself from his direct sphere of influence . |
| 25 | She smiled as her father began : he would have been happy being a teacher ; he had often told her that and at one stage — in the nature of parents ' bequeathing unfulfilled ambitions to their children — he had hoped that Mr Fenton might consider her as a pupil teacher ( just for the mornings , of course , he needed her the rest of the day ) . |
| 26 | One process which has certainly been important is geographical isolation . |
| 27 | How far they had been successful was , however , another matter entirely : the main effect of Schweitzer 's brilliant study was in fact to put an end to that quest , at least in its most widely popular form . |
| 28 | A simple indication that the mapping between tagsets had been successful was made by investigating the words that were common to the corpus and the Text710 . |
| 29 | Could that have been Carnelian 's prime motive ? |
| 30 | ‘ God give me strength , ’ he yelled , instantly turning his attention back to the younger man who stood before him , and whose woebegone expression would have been comical were it not so pitiful . |