Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Although I have n't been able to convince myself . ’ |
| 4 | In particular , the number of stopping places available to them has been drastically reduced over a period of three or four decades during which the travelling population has been on the increase , although I have not been able to discover the measure of it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | My home is 90 miles away , so I have n't been able to afford to go back very often . |
| 7 | Bartram s query regarding Kalm s American observations was dealt with : Miller had not seen whether Linnaeus had included them in his Species of plants , but mentioned that Kalm had published them himself ; ‘ in the Swedish language ; but as I do not understand it , so I have not been curious enough to send for the book , nor do I hear any good character of it . ’ |
| 8 | The original bouquet for this picture was exceptionally large , so I have not been able to reproduce a life-sized replica but instead have scaled it down to fit into a picture frame . |
| 9 | Anne Liddy , the clog dancer , only worked for John for a couple of seasons , so she had not been Tillerized . |
| 10 | She 's very easy to handle and not fierce at all , so she had obviously been hand-reared . |
| 11 | ‘ So you have n't been unfaithful , is that what you 're saying ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It has been difficult while they 've been doing their exams , so we 've not been able to get them together as much as I would have liked . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | They needed British and West European support more than they had previously been prepared to admit . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ Although it has n't been one of the happiest experiences of my life either , ’ she added in a low voice . |
| 22 | ‘ Umm … although it 's only been half-restored to its original state , and so there 's a lot of work to be done . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He 's got a crooked back , you see , and although he 's always been rich , he was never really happy until he married . ’ |
| 25 | Although he has not been able to cure it , he has found it possible to slow the disease down so that it stabilises , banishing the symptoms to allow the fish to grow and feed . |
| 26 | He feels sorry for people who are disabled although he has never been able to walk properly himself . |
| 27 | Melts that had frozen within this subconscious lithosphere would enrich it in the same elements that are enriched in the crust , so it has not been possible to distinguish between these theories . |
| 28 | What , really , has it done for Daisy — if I had not been able to help materially ? |
| 29 | If I had n't been pregnant I would have been sent back to Bullwood , but they have n't got a mother and baby unit there , though in those days Styal was only for women over twenty-one , apart from the pregnant borstal girls . |
| 30 | I had the feeling that if I had n't been present he might have risked uttering a few words to Millie . |