Example sentences of "been [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mammalian gut has been stable for many millennia and acts to constrain the flexibility of E. coli 's genome . |
| 2 | The weather had been dry for some time and , fanned by an easterly wind , the fire spread rapidly until , within three days , it had engulfed most of the city . |
| 3 | He was therefore held to have been guilty of contributory negligence and the widow 's damages reduced . |
| 4 | 12–7– They dealt with " Mary Trotter who before joining the Free Church has been guilty of antenuptial fornication and that while a communicant . " |
| 5 | Equally , in the case of John Main at Inverkeithing , he and his two fellow excisemen were threatened with the board 's displeasure in 1752 , when the collector of Bo'ness accepted , without any enquiry into the facts , an allegation that they had been guilty of excessive drinking and had thereby neglected their duties . |
| 6 | The significant results achieved using this text may have been specific to this domain and hence not necessarily repeatable in other domains ( i.e. the OALD may provide unusually good coverage of commercial or financial terminology ) . |
| 7 | The delays appear to have been due to administrative confusion and a lack of political will . |
| 8 | Bought deals have only been possible with Big Bang and the advent of large well capitalised securities firms , but the risks being taken on are extremely large . |
| 9 | It seemed as if they 'd been wrong about one thing and only too right about the other . |
| 10 | Even as a small boy , Thomas had been interested in mechanical toys and as he grew up he determined to become an engineer like our father , who was a regular Royal Engineer . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've always been interested in old furniture and I 've swotted it up a bit in my spare time . ’ |
| 12 | There have been 2 by local newspapers and both show our support more or less the same as it was back in 87 with a substantial drop in Liberal Democrat support and a substantial rise in support for Labour . |
| 13 | The inspiration for the experiment was the German Jugendherbergen accommodation which had long been popular with English trampers and cyclists . |
| 14 | And it 's particularly , I think , acute in the parish of Saint Mary 's and Saint John 's because the vicarage has been empty for two years and erm they built a new house , it was more it was cheaper to build a new house than to do the old one up , but there it 's been sat , empty for two years , and erm they 've been trying to find a buyer . |
| 15 | The former Teesside and District Society for the Blind workshop has been empty for six years and is a magnet for vandals . |
| 16 | It had been empty for several years and was dirty , damp and severely vandalised . |
| 17 | She had been listless for some time and the woman could only hope that moving her right away from the influence of the people she went around with into these beautiful surroundings might bring her back to herself . |
| 18 | Pension funds have been subject to close scrutiny and performance measurement . |
| 19 | Over the past 2 years it has been subject to extensive repairs and its site to archaeological investigation . |
| 20 | But if this were the case why has the local-central state system been subject to continuous conflict and occasional crisis ? |
| 21 | There is an enormous variety in the urban experience that this book can not hope to explore to any great extent : different cities have been subject to contrasting pressures and have responded in different ways . |
| 22 | In many respects the management of GEAR has been ineffective : goals have been defined too broadly , simply to ensure consensus ; organizations have been assimilated within GEAR for purely cosmetic purposes ; power has been too diffuse ; and too much has been made of environmental improvements when the local economy has been subject to dramatic changes and unemployment has risen substantially . |
| 23 | Evaluation of its performance is hazardous because it has not generally been subject to commercial practices and norms [ Pryke , 1981 ] . |
| 24 | And yet in this area , too , Karajan has been subject to rebarbative questioning and criticism , not least on the grounds that an interest in technology is somehow incompatible with a man 's credibility as a performing musician . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | As I have reminded groups before now , the reality of incarnation has been central to Catholic spirituality and practice ; that is not so true of other traditions . |
| 27 | These questions have been central to recent studies and the answers may be unexpected . |
| 28 | Issues about women 's autonomy have been central to feminist thinking and action . |
| 29 | In fact this shift has been visible for some time and seems at present to be increasing . |
| 30 | The development of the retinue would have been impossible without royal backing and reflected , rather than negated , the king 's authority . |