Example sentences of "been [adj] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1984 was notable for the extension to the rights queue caused by the British Telecom privatization so that the brief emergence of the ‘ vendor placing ’ may have been due only to exceptional circumstances . |
| 2 | There was a time in the very early universe when it was so hot that the particle energies would have been high enough for these transformations to take place . |
| 3 | They perhaps entered by the route of Kamchatka and Alaska , where the climate , even now so much milder and more equitable than on the north-east coast of America , might have been warm enough in late Pliocene times to have allowed the migration of these animals . |
| 4 | That he has used his linguistic skills to make such a protest , where before he has been content merely with linguistic cleverness , marks an important development in his character and it leaves the reader with a distinctly more favourable impression of him at the end of the play than at the beginning . |
| 5 | The notion of such international co-operation would have been unthinkable even at senior investigator level ; but here the arrangements had been made and he 'd been on a plane within a matter of hours . |
| 6 | They had been married now for seven years . |
| 7 | It seems as though the period of separation has been long enough for genetic differences to appear within populations but not so long that reproductive barriers have developed . |
| 8 | Swan compiled a series of almanacs published in Cambridge from 1657 , and may have been responsible too for other titles such as those ostensibly by ‘ Swallow ’ and ‘ Dove ’ . |
| 9 | the extension of developing disciplines , as measured by the relative size of the literature , and as has been evident recently in various areas of the social sciences and in computer science ; |
| 10 | I 've been stuck up in this part |
| 11 | I 've been stuck up in this place |
| 12 | One day last week we 'ad to get us own lunch , me young See-all-hear-all-say-nowt upstairs , and then I had to bellow to get him down t'elp or I 'd 'ave been stuck 'ere in this chair wi'out a sup or bite from dawn to dusk and beyond . |
| 13 | then he comes home , that 's what he likes to do potter around the house , well I do n't want to potter around the house when I 've been stuck in for twelve months . |
| 14 | My mother has been happy there for fifteen years . |
| 15 | We have so far been concerned wholly with one dimension on which any general interpretation of that sort must be tested . |
| 16 | This section has so far been concerned specifically with zero-pressure-gradient boundary layers . |
| 17 | Moreover , 55 per cent of the neighbourhood had been resident there for five years or more . |
| 18 | Prescriptives , an American range that has been available here for 10 years , offers a unique collection of very wearable , natural colours . |
| 19 | DEC is likely to add an open application programming interface to ACMS , which has previously been available only on VMS-based server systems . |
| 20 | Cracks within the Forum have been apparent ever since last June 's general election . |
| 21 | The other thing that 's been done , erm , and has been ongoing now for some months without too much success , but things seem to be moving a little bit , at least we 're told they are , is that I I pressed for , not really a presentation but a technical meeting , I wanted to get there there product engineers |
| 22 | Steering without an effective rudder would have been difficult even with calm waters ; in the last decade the waters have been anything but calm . |
| 23 | A marriage between foreign nationals from different countries and of different religions would have been difficult enough in settled times , but it was rendered much more complicated now by the fact that whatever my family 's record might have been with regard to the Fascist party , my mother , my father and I were enemy aliens who had just lost a war . |
| 24 | My night had been restless too with humid city temperature . |
| 25 | Such an approach has been influential even amongst professional historians , so that Lawrence Stone , for example , hints at such a cyclical explanation in his own work on The Family , Sex and Marriage : ‘ In terms of both sexual attitudes and power relationships , one can dimly begin to discern huge , mysterious , secular swings from repression to permissiveness and back again . ’ |
| 26 | They skirted the palm-fringed swimming-pool which appeared to have been hewn out of solid coral-stone , and crossed it by means of a wooden bridge suspended above two huge boulders . |
| 27 | This would have been bad enough under any circumstances but in this instance the bullet hit the base of some armour plate in the leading edge of the fin which caused it to split . |