Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As your co-trustee I have not been inattentive to my duty … and I in no shape deserve to be the object of the prosecution of my co-trustees . |
| 2 | On the plus side was the fact that the Foreign Office and the years spent in Cabinet were a good apprenticeship , while in addition I had never been afraid of taking decisions . |
| 3 | ‘ Except for losing Mum I 've always been lucky , but it 's bound to change sometime . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Of course I 've never been able to cook . |
| 5 | It 's the other kind of thinking I 've never been able to muster , the long-term stuff , ‘ Never confuse strategy with tactics , ’ one of my tutors advised me , but I ca n't even remember what the words mean . |
| 6 | The only animals I have n't been able to check on are the sheep . ’ |
| 7 | In Uganda I had always been keen on the latest styles , trying new clothes from week to week . |
| 8 | I think we deserved it because that was one of the finest team performances I 've ever been involved with . |
| 9 | ‘ That was one of the finest team performances I 've ever been involved with ’ Gavin Hastings |
| 10 | It was a form of association which had not been unremarked by several of the socially better placed . |
| 11 | Practices of keeping donor insemination secret from all others , and of keeping the child in ignorance of his/her means of conception which have traditionally been implicit in the provision of donor insemination are now in a state of flux . |
| 12 | Talks between Iraq and Kuwait which had originally been due to take place in Jeddah on July 28-29 were delayed until July 31 . |
| 13 | By the 1890s , however , it seems that the wave of public-school interest in clubs had passed , and there developed ‘ an intensification of the snobbery which had always been latent in them , and of the mere athleticism which caricatured the mens sana in corpore sano tag ’ . |
| 14 | After an announcement of a firm intention to make an offer has been made the offeror must , except with the consent of the Panel , proceed with the posting of the offer document ( which must occur within 28 days ) unless the posting is subject to a specific pre-condition which has not been satisfied ( Rules 2.7 and 30.1 ) . |
| 15 | It is widely assumed that ‘ real ’ country people are in favour of development as a source of new jobs and housing while the rich commuter is only concerned to protect his equity and a style of living which has never been available to the locals . |
| 16 | The postcode to Enumeration District directory and the digitised boundary data enable it to be mapped and compared with data compiled on a different geographical basis , an aid which has not been available for censuses prior to 1981 . |
| 17 | still I think it 's the fact erm you know y you 're not she 's got a problem on her mind she 's not been well you 're not taking her serious |
| 18 | Other clients who 've not been sure about coming , actually find they quite like it and it 's not that bad and yes , they 'd like to stay ! |
| 19 | All the quality standards require arrangements for files to be reviewed by a lawyer who has not been involved in the day-to-day conduct of the case . |
| 20 | As an adult she was able to see how wrong it was and she knew that they were indulging in something they should not have been doing — although in her childish innocence she had not been aware that it was anything more than an extension of the love and affection she felt for other members of her family . |
| 21 | In the past where fee disputes have arisen following an M&A engagement we have always been able to establish our position to the lawyers ' satisfaction as a result of a clear and comprehensive engagement letter agreed to in writing by the client . |
| 22 | In these few paragraphs we have not been able to do more than provide a sketchy summary of these rich concepts . |
| 23 | Many , for example , talked about the gangs they had once been involved in but these gangs , if they remained at all , were not , as one Town Boy said , ‘ a shadow of what they used to be ’ . |
| 24 | In the early years of the " new diplomacy " in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries it had not been unusual for a diplomat who died in post to be immediately succeeded by a relative , often a close one , who had been attached to his mission with this possibility in mind . |
| 25 | In a well-led and well-motivated military force it has always been possible to form a rearguard who will fight tenaciously on behalf of their colleagues . |
| 26 | If she had spoken in charity to an unhappy invalid it had also been negligent of a larger truth : that they were representative of two very different principles — ; principles that might meet only in an hour of need , or in honest confrontation with one another . |
| 27 | Josef Mauer had been with the Austrian police for eighteen years , the last eleven as a sergeant stationed in Linz , but despite numerous attempts by his superior to change his mind he had never been interested in promotion , preferring the everyday excitement that came with riding the streets in a police car to struggling with a mound of paperwork in some closeted office . |
| 28 | For months it had apparently been common knowledge ; something to be tutted over and discussed in hushed tones that stopped abruptly whenever she entered the common-room . |
| 29 | ‘ Against us , Wales played him to the hilt , but then again the Scots themselves have never been slow to play to the referee , ’ states Best who is in Scotland for coaching sessions with five schools ( Madras , Morrison 's , Watson 's , Berwickshire High and Glasgow High ) and Edinburgh University last night , all arranged by his firm , Rugby Travel . |
| 30 | The dams themselves have long been disused . |