Example sentences of "[vb base] been [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've broken up , I 've been heartbroken through bizarre circumstances … but I still live with that person . |
| 2 | Erm , and I 've been involved in lengthy discussion on behalf of certain people in the trade , one of the largest er , chains of superstores , do-it-yourself superstores . |
| 3 | I 've been involved in direct mail ever since my first days with the Billy Graham Organisation in the early sixties . |
| 4 | For three years I 've been wary of deep water . |
| 5 | Where snow depths increased rapidly in central and eastern districts , scores of vehicles and their occupants were trapped on busy highways where such conditions have been rare in recent years . |
| 6 | Article 2 , which sets out the general areas of workers ' rights , simply spells out many rights that already exist in law , or have been present in well-unionised work places for years before Thatcherism . |
| 7 | A collection of essays edited by Ellen Kennedy and Susan Mendus , Women in Western Political Philosophy ( 1987 ) , presents a feminist perspective on questions that have been central to political philosophy and raises questions about the philosophical underpinning of political theory . |
| 8 | These questions have been central to recent studies and the answers may be unexpected . |
| 9 | Some of the other issues discussed in this book have been central to historical writing on South Asia which treats more traditional subjects . |
| 10 | Issues about women 's autonomy have been central to feminist thinking and action . |
| 11 | Safety issues have been paramount throughout modern NGV development — and CNG has several safety advantages over liquid fuels . |
| 12 | THE following notes have been available from National Office for some time , but their inclusion in this edition of ‘ The Embalmer ’ is to coincide with the recent publication of ‘ Health & safety in the Funeral Service ’ ( See above ) . |
| 13 | Nor would many other public and private services have been available in tolerable form . |
| 14 | Natural language corpora have been available in computerised form for over thirty years . |
| 15 | However , these have been due to large-scale rationalization , including a reduction of nearly a quarter of their work force between 1980 and 1984 . |
| 16 | Some have been due to the aircraft getting into a new mode of spin , but others have been due to poor recovery techniques . |
| 17 | The occasional and unfortunate accidents have been due to inadequate safety procedures , not to lack of understanding of the basic nuclear processes ; had there been some previously unknown nuclear process taking place at room temperature in solid materials and that had been somehow overlooked , then it is likely that we would have discovered this long ago in some reactor . |
| 18 | Remember , too , that the strains within the ERM have been due to exceptional circumstances . |
| 19 | These three conceptions have been subject to various criticisms : that many of the discretionary powers are vested in officials and public bodies , that many officials and bodies have powers and immunities that the ordinary citizen does not have , and that certain rights have been modified by or enacted in statute . |
| 20 | Yet , by 1986 , in the Green Paper Paying for Local Government we were told that ‘ The Government is concerned , however , that GREs have been subject to frequent changes ’ ( Department of the Environment , 1986b ) . |
| 21 | But even as the mainstream has turned on to S&M images , those involved in the scene have been subject to increased harassment from the authorities . |
| 22 | In the geological field , Aberdeen University has produced a number of M Sc theses derived from research on the geology of North Sea oil fields , in part financed by the local oil industry , and most have been subject to restricted access at the behest of the funding authorities . |
| 23 | Traditionally , releases of major pollutants to air , land and water have been subject to separate controls . |
| 24 | Moreover , loss-making Spanish public enterprises have been subject to specific pay bands lower than those for profitable companies . |
| 25 | Thirdly , foreign banks have been subject to minimal regulations on their foreign currency ( non-sterling ) deposit and loan business by the Bank of England . |
| 26 | Pension funds have been subject to close scrutiny and performance measurement . |
| 27 | Qualities such as the physical condition of the member of the opposite sex , the resources it holds and the extent to which it bears characters that have been subject to sexual selection can all affect whether or not it is chosen ( see Halliday , 1983 ) . |
| 28 | The instruments for changing behaviour show an adapted regularity which suggests that they themselves have been subject to natural selection during the course of evolution . |
| 29 | They fit the animal 's information-gathering equipment to particular problems and , presumably , they have been subject to natural selection during evolution . |
| 30 | In my view a good case has been made for the view that the learning processes involved in the formation of mating preference of humans have been subject to natural selection during the course of evolution . |