Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A measure of your success in a coaching session is when the subordinate feels the discussion has been between two equals and that together you have arrived at the best course of action .
2 Certainly the Catholic Church had a vested interest in Aristotelian philosophy , but much of the conflict ostensibly between science and religion turns out to have been between new science and the sanctified science of the previous generation .
3 Here the choice must have been between good lakes and less good lakes .
4 Following the uprising and the overthrow of the legitimate government , whatever common interest there had been between these groups ceased and they began to fight each other .
5 The most marked shift has been between different sectors : the percentage of output ( Gross Domestic product , or GDP ) accounted for by manufacturing has decreased while the proportion attributable to service industries has increased .
6 According to Mills , the United States had been through five epochs .
7 Even more importantly , Maisie did n't like chicken , especially free-range , corn-fed , humanely killed chicken that had been through Jungian analysis .
8 Or it may have been through passive smoking .
9 Neil Young , the love-lorn introspective warbler , has , like every other Neil Young , been through many changes .
10 ‘ I have n't been drinking , Harvey , ’ she said patiently , as if this was a dialogue they had been through many times before .
11 These shrubs were cut of fat ground level so that stools developed from which new shoots emerged — the stools can therefore be of very great age , having been through many cycles of cutting .
12 The Liberal Democratic Party has been through many name changes since the 1987 election .
13 He has a place in Cheltenham in England which he set up some years ago , and he also has a retreat in the French alps in St Claude , and his aim , apparently , is to de-program people who have been through religious sects such as Scientologists , Moonies and now the Hare Krishnas .
14 Sales in the product 's first year of deliveries amounted to only $1m , a drop in the bucket for a firm that 's been through two rounds of venture capital totalling $7.5m provided by Aspen Partners , Menlo Ventures and Matrix .
15 The pair , both 25 , have been through two days of hell — and team-mates fear the nightmare may have damaged their medal chances .
16 ‘ It is vitally important we get people who have themselves been through that experience , ’ said Christine .
17 House prices will not rise in the same way and consumers who have been through that experience have been hard bitten by it .
18 having been through that experience with Helen , he 'll be a lot more weary .
19 How would you describe , if you 'd been through that jungle what would you have said ?
20 yeah , erm yeah it was different erm with it only being role play it was a bit erm difficult to keep up with it sometimes and actually keep it going like , erm if it was the real life situation outside right you 'd know that the person you were talking to had more had been through that situation before
21 She 's been through that process once , and it seems that she 'll stay immune to further absorption .
22 Having been through that process once , the Social Security Committee is clearly interested in other areas .
23 Bull has now failed to score for seven games but Turner said : ‘ There is not a striker in the country who has not been through that sort of spell . ’
24 The NHS has much to learn from other industries and organisations that have been through similar changes .
25 The United Kingdom has been through 13 years in which unemployment has more than doubled , irreplaceable assets have been wasted , markets at home and abroad have been lost , manufacturing investment has fallen , poverty has increased , the crime rate has rocketed , and talents have been neglected .
26 Where interiors have survived , it has been through benign neglect .
27 ‘ The North has been through hard times but things are changing , ’ he said .
28 We 've been through three names already .
29 I ferried and drove to Great Neck one weekend to see Maggie , an old friend from the Sixties , who 'd been through three husbands and several transformations since we 'd first been King 's Road freaks together .
30 It must have been heartbreaking for people who had been through sensational experiences to have to recount them to politely tepid audiences and to discover that their stories conformed to an orthodox pattern .
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