Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Except for losing Mum I 've always been lucky , but it 's bound to change sometime . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Of course I 've never been able to cook . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The ring which had originally been twenty feet across was now little wider than seven or eight feet ; the squatters were now standing and getting in everyone else 's view . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Since 1969 when the procedure was brought into effect there have only been three review boards , though AIB have conducted something like fifteen inspector 's investigations each year . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Sally-Anne reached the gates and walked up to the rectory , an eighteenth-century building which had once been beautiful , but like the area around it had gone to seed badly , although Dr Neil had told her that it was elegant , if shabby inside . |
| 15 | In one of the central episodes in the novel , Humberto not only cuckolds his employer , but fathers on his wife the heir whom the oligarch himself has never been able to engender , and it is only subsequently that it becomes clear that what has been narrated as a factual account of events is , in reality , no more than a fantasy in which he simultaneously avenges his social humiliation and effects the incorporation of the humble Peñaloza line into the oligarchy . |
| 16 | The contribution made by his analysis is that he seeks to provide a logical answer to the question which had previously been unsolved : what matters are collateral or preliminary ? |
| 17 | A splinter killed the commander of III Corps Field Artillery , brave old General Lotterer who had seldom been far from his forward guns during the first phase of the battle . |
| 18 | At home she had never been aware of it . |
| 19 | In the tradition of Western philosophy there have always been those who longed for a society in which injustice and poverty were abolished and people able to share their material possessions . |
| 20 | This is the only nine to five sales job I 've ever been able to offer anybody . |
| 21 | Ownership has sometimes been transferred into local hands ( private or state ) while the original owners have continued as managers on a financial basis which has frequently been unrelated to their performance . |
| 22 | One process which has certainly been important is geographical isolation . |
| 23 | The result was that they received both a big two-year increase and a pay review body which has since been responsible for a further substantial increase in their salaries . |
| 24 | Sharon Harrington is a very active member of the group who has also been influential in the setting up of the Blyth Valley Self-Advocacy Group , which she now chairs . |
| 25 | Azzedine Laraki , who had been Prime Minister since 1986 , was replaced by Karim Lamrani , 72 , an economist with a background in business who had previously been Prime Minister in 1971 and 1983 . |
| 26 | Billy Kelly , the power workers ' leader who had then been instrumental in halting industry , promised that the electricity workers would again bring the province to a halt . |
| 27 | From somewhere in the back Cecilia could hear that sound she had never been able to identify and had not liked to ask about , a regular screeching as made by a bird in a zoo . |
| 28 | In his arms , pressed close against the hard , powerful body she 'd never been able to banish from her mind , she forgot everything but him , knew nothing but the agonising joy of being in his arms . |
| 29 | But this was not so ; no one landing there had ever been able to get out and the nearest airport was 600 miles away . |
| 30 | Thus although poverty among lone mothers has increased in the 1980s , as a group they have long been vulnerable to poverty . |