Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I opened it , and I got my answer , and it set me thinking afresh and seeing clearly where I had formerly been blind . |
| 2 | Areas where there had previously been little opportunity for women to have waged work ( the coalfields of the old peripheral regions were the classic example ) would provide such a reserve of labour and would therefore be attractive to manufacturing industry . |
| 3 | Paolo Uccello would have been the most delightful and imaginative genius since Giotto that had adorned the art of painting , if he had devoted as much pains to figures and animals as he did to questions of perspective , for , although these are ingenious and good in their way , yet an immoderate devotion to them causes an infinite waste of time , fatigues nature , clogs the mind with difficulties , and frequently renders it sterile where it had previously been fertile and facile . |
| 4 | After the yard was the house that was built for , and due , so much more life than I 'd ever been able to give it . |
| 5 | She 's very easy to handle and not fierce at all , so she had obviously been hand-reared . |
| 6 | Erm , but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment than we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non common and we have had to take a larger share of the cost of those equipments than originally planned . |
| 7 | We had a really marvellous holiday in October — three whole weeks , much longer than we 'd ever been able to have while Michael was working . |
| 8 | To our disbelief it was really very much more abundant than we could ever have thought possible , so we 've actually been able to find molecules with eleven carbon atoms in a chain , floating around in space , and for which we really at the present time have no explanation . |
| 9 | ‘ We have the best trained , the best qualified law enforcement officers that can be found in any major city in the world so we have always been able to maintain solid protection for our community without having the comparable size departments that other cities have , ’ he says . |
| 10 | Once again if these changes continue to develop in the UK , the classification and definition of what constitutes a rural area will have to be radically altered , although there have already been some changes , as the next section demonstrates . |
| 11 | American rhetoric on the city shares some of these themes , notably those of enterprise and the liberating influence of the market , although there have also been distinct differences embedded in US political culture . |
| 12 | Once there had just been Trocchi drawing on the group 's ideas , there had been the sTigma exhibition in Better Books in 1965 , the obituary of Andrée Breton — one of the group 's intellectual roots — by Jean-Jacques Lebel in the first It fourteen months earlier . |
| 13 | They needed British and West European support more than they had previously been prepared to admit . |
| 14 | More recently , these hidebound attitudes have changed , in that educated , intelligent Christians accept that there is little need for God to perform a miracle ( unless , moving in mysterious ways , He particularly wants to ) when He can create the same effect using natural processes ; while scientists have begun more and more to recognize that there may be more truth in the mystical writings of the Christian and other religions than they have previously been prepared to admit . |
| 15 | Parma became renowned for its elegance during the reign of Maria Luigia , Napoleon 's second wife , daughter of the Emperor of Austria and mother of the King of Rome , when she was Duchess of Parma , Piacenza and Guastalla ; although it had already been famous under the Farnese and the Bourbons . |
| 16 | And the label was retrospectively applied to all " females " in the trade , although it had originally been relevant only to a handful of school-leavers , comparable to the boy apprentices who also worked during the strike . |
| 17 | ‘ Umm … although it 's only been half-restored to its original state , and so there 's a lot of work to be done . |
| 18 | It was from the vantage point of the Master 's Lodge , a family place , that Thomson , cheerful and generous , made his most distinctive contribution to university affairs , although he had already been active since the 1930s in adult education , as both a part-time tutor and a committee member , and from 1950 to 1958 he had sat on the council of the senate . |
| 19 | He 's got a crooked back , you see , and although he 's always been rich , he was never really happy until he married . ’ |
| 20 | He feels sorry for people who are disabled although he has never been able to walk properly himself . |
| 21 | ‘ I should not be alive today if I had ever been guilty of complacency or carelessness , ’ he said . |
| 22 | yeah , they 'll be , and she 's always moaning driving Sue up the wall , why should I keep him blah , blah , blah , blah , doing nothing , we sit and look at each other and Sue said for Christ sake she said you 're twenty years old , not forty , she 'd been bad on and off again , throat , well she had the shoulder , throat er she thought she had , oh the diabetes was one were n't it , diabetes one , they thought she had , thought that she had glandular fever but she has n't and er , so Sue said to her well are you looking after yourself and she said yes I am , Sue said well I du n no she never seems to be , cos she 's never been well has she really ? |
| 23 | If she 'd ever been awake . |
| 24 | How would he have reacted if she had really been ill ? |
| 25 | She chewed the pencil , swallowing splinters ; what could she tell Mrs Rundle , who was now ( if she had ever been much more than ) a stranger , living at a distance , forgetting them , putting them into her past , memories packed with other memories in her bulging handbag ? |
| 26 | ‘ It 's not as if she 's ever been any different , ’ she said . |
| 27 | you know if you 've ever been stuck in this you know you 've got an appointment somewhere you know the the frustration 's incredible . |
| 28 | But if you 'd also been able to identify me then they would certainly have initiated an investigation . |
| 29 | If you have never been involved in any of the activities listed above then DO N'T … |
| 30 | If you have never been successful , you never will be |