Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's lucky I was n't in the water then floating , cos that would 've been dangerous with that boat going past . |
| 2 | The work has been useful in 2 ways : firstly , it has yielded demonstrator programmes that can be used to convince more senior officers ; and it has increased the number of people available with some knowledge of expert systems . |
| 3 | Er , if the person er is sitting watching the television and er has been awake for several hours then we are at a disadvantage . |
| 4 | Interest has been phenomenal with all Areas represented by ladies 7s and gents 11s . |
| 5 | One has been convinced for some time that the idea was to take Weir in the guise of a No 6 . |
| 6 | The difference has been essential to European culture and civilisation since the Renaissance at least . |
| 7 | Photographic recording of naevi and use of these photographs to detect change suggesting development of melanoma has been essential in this study . |
| 8 | John Brushwood from Hook End , has been hand-picked from this month 's lucky dip , as the winner of a year 's supply of Scuba World . |
| 9 | In a sustained way ( meaning in more than sporadic decisions ) , it can be argued that the court has been critical to national questions only twice . |
| 10 | Rowlands has been critical of Welsh officials who went to the SA Rugby Board celebrations . |
| 11 | However , if the house has been unoccupied for some time , the boards will need to be conditioned with water — this method can also help to flatten wavy boards . |
| 12 | He has been friendly with Holy Trinity 's vicar since teaching him at theological college in Durham . |
| 13 | But the discharge may be refused or postponed if he has been guilty of certain offences or misconduct in connection with the bankruptcy , or if his assets are insufficient for the payment of 50p in the £ , unless this is shown not to be due to the debtor 's fault . |
| 14 | has been guilty of fraudulent trading contrary to s. 458 of the Companies Act 1985 ; |
| 15 | Of course if her doctor has been guilty of serious neglect , you and your parent may decide that you should lodge a complaint with the local Community Health Council , whose job is to represent to the Area Health Authority the interests of the public in the district in which it operates . |
| 16 | 12–7– They dealt with " Mary Trotter who before joining the Free Church has been guilty of antenuptial fornication and that while a communicant . " |
| 17 | It will , however , consider whether the Panel has observed the basic rules of natural justice and has observed its own procedural rules and whether it has been guilty of any irrationality or has misdirected itself in law ( see Datafin ) . |
| 18 | has been guilty of any fraud in relation to the company while an officer , etc. , of the company . |
| 19 | Tumin claims that the American Medical Association has been guilty of this practice . |
| 20 | Damaris discovers that she has been guilty of intellectual sin in failing to believe , to realize imaginatively , the nature of the material she is studying . |
| 21 | The attack on a dichotomy of form and content has been persistent in modern criticism ; to change so much as a word , the argument runs , is to change the meaning as well . |
| 22 | And in looking at the experience not merely of Asia , but also of Africa , what becomes increasingly apparent is that most development strategies have tended _ particularly when we look at technical change — erm have tended to bypass women , or in many cases one also notes that the impact of technical change has been detrimental to poor women , and examples of this can be found , for instance , in terms of adoption of certain kinds of technique , like mechanisation of rice processing in parts of Asia , where one finds that there has been a large scale displacement of landless women . |
| 23 | ‘ There had been a good relationship on the whole between the management and myself and it has been supportive on both sides . ’ |
| 24 | This has been invaluable in challenging simplicities about , say , the ‘ repression ’ of sexuality in nineteenth-century Europe , and in questioning the teleological view which sees a gradual climb towards permissiveness from Victorian darkness . |
| 25 | IBIsys has been available for four years and has around 15,000 customers scattered across Italy , Europe , Canada , South Africa and Australia . |
| 26 | Thus a verdict at an inquest of natural causes aggravated by lack of care has been available for many years . |
| 27 | Depo-Provera has been available for short-term use in Britain since 1978 . |
| 28 | We have described this process earlier ( chapter 6 ) , and it seems to occur in every case where fingerspelling has been available for some time and there has been a strong hearing influence . |
| 29 | Groups of bed-sitters with communal lounge facilities have been tried , and in some places the shared lounge has been available for social facilities for the old people of the neighbourhood . |
| 30 | Rubella ( German measles ) can cause devastating damage to the fetus in early pregnancy and girls who have not had an attack of this disease by the age of puberty are offered immunisation against this virus so that any baby conceived would be protected , although this should soon be rare in the UK because from 1988 , MMR ( measles , mumps , rubella ) protection has been available to all infants . |