Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [prep] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new educational framework , which has been through an extensive consultation process with practice committees and the Regions , will replace the current Member Part 1 and 11 examinations and will be phased in from September next year . |
| 2 | ‘ She has been through an awful lot , ’ says Ann . |
| 3 | The engine has been on an electronic diagnosis machine ( like a Sun tester ) and everything was shown to be set just about right . |
| 4 | And here there is at once a difficulty , in that the general productive order , throughout the centuries of the development of capitalism , has been predominantly defined by the market , and ‘ cultural production ’ , as we have seen , has been increasingly assimilated to its terms , yet any full identity between cultural production and general production has been to an important extent resisted , one of the forms of this resistance being the distinctions between ‘ artisan ’ , ‘ craftsman ’ and ‘ artist ’ , and in an important related form the distinction between ‘ objects of utility ’ and ‘ objects of art ’ . |
| 5 | One of the main tasks of the SCAWD and its Secretary has been as an educational resource for conferences , congregations and local church groups , working mainly on international justice and peace issues and solidarity concerns . |
| 6 | It is only the most recent work that has been of an acceptable standard in this respect , and the finding may be summarised as showing a modest correlation between the level of lead in the blood and hyperactivity in children , and between high blood levels and low intelligence , with the latter conclusion more firmly established . |
| 7 | Taking part in the programme has been like an exciting adventure , discovering the hidden strengths of a community in its parents , and the willingness of Community Mothers to contribute to growth and development within their communities . |
| 8 | Rachel suddenly felt she 'd been through an emotional wringer . |
| 9 | It was an Unmentionable Disease , and he 'd caught it because he 'd been to an Unmentionable Place and so it served him right , but that did n't make it any less sore . |
| 10 | For upset stomach read hangover , she thought , knowing he 'd been to an eighteenth birthday celebration for one of his friends the night before . |
| 11 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |
| 12 | … I mean a completely different development arising from computer logic but as unimaginable to us now as a Shakespearean character would have been to an oral-epic culture , and a different way of thinking about and rendering … all worldly phenomena , as revolutionary as the scientific spirit that slowly emerged out of the Renaissance and the Gutenberg galaxy . |
| 13 | When the democratic French governments of the inter-war period ignored Le Corbusier 's scheme for demolishing most of Paris in favour of his own grandiose plan of urban renewal , the architect turned his thoughts to how much better his fate would have been under an absolute monarch like Louis XIV : ‘ Homage to a great town planner . |
| 14 | It could have been as an unlucky loser against Fisher in the Ulster championships that Stephen Gibson got this glamour trip , but there was nothing controversial about Eddie 's win this time over the Immaculata lad . |
| 15 | They also look at wider issues such as their own up-bringing which may have been in an addictive family and may have led to many grief or abuse or other issues that may still need to be processed with a sponsor or a professional counsellor if there is to be further progress in recovery . |
| 16 | ‘ Because he would have had such a responsible job , he had to have the absolute backing of both countries and he clearly did not and would have been in an impossible position . |
| 17 | It would have been in an excitable state and therefore would have been very dangerous . |
| 18 | It must have been from an old girlfriend . ’ |
| 19 | This minority appears to have been on an upward trend ( from 2 per cent of couples both of whom were employees in 1968 to 5 per cent in 1980 — Elias , 1983 ) , but the conclusion of Lynne Hamill 's study of the 1974 FES still stands . |
| 20 | Britain 's financial withdrawals from the IMF had been on an unprecedented scale . |
| 21 | The house had been in an appalling condition , full of junk and rubbish , its elegant lines unreadable through years of accretions and demolitions . |
| 22 | He had been in an ebullient mood , enjoying the superb weather and the lazy , carefree atmosphere which pervaded the busy cafe . |
| 23 | A son whose father had Parkinson 's disease and had been in an old people 's home commented : |
| 24 | Tony , whose funeral was a week ago , had been in an irreversible coma since the Hillsborough disaster in 1989 . |
| 25 | Cruzan , 33 , had been in an irreversible coma since a 1983 car accident in which she suffered severe brain damage . |
| 26 | Mr Bland , whose funeral was held a week ago , had been in an irreversible coma since the disaster in 1989 . |
| 27 | But I 've been on an immense number of statutory instruments upstairs er and everybody says they 're greatly needed , they usually say they 're greatly needed because they want to go out in three or four minutes and ten thirty comes and ten thirty five they 're out . |
| 28 | Traditional budgets have been on an annual time-scale . |
| 29 | ‘ These good people have been to an enormous amount of trouble on my behalf , and I am sure I shall be quite unable to do justice to their generous provision . ’ |
| 30 | They have been through an unsettling time and are finding it difficult to readjust . |