Example sentences of "[verb] been [prep] serious [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been in serious office since 1979 , in cabinet for nine years . |
| 2 | Keith has been in serious training for the last two weeks . |
| 3 | This would be true for at least two of the examples of ( 18 ) , to which we may add at random : ( 32 ) some delegates who were German frowned the starling which is inquisitive is female It is emphatically not the answer to say , " those which can not become postnominal attributives turn into prenominals instead " , for two reasons : first , as we have already seen , there is a major difference of function between prenominal position and predicative position as occupied by the adjective in the sort of relative clause proposed ; and , second , this still leaves us facing the question of why some relative clauses can apparently be reduced to postnominal adjectives and others can not ( indeed this question , previously passed by , has been in serious need of an answer from those who want to relate prenominal adjectives — or simply attributives in general — to predicative position ) . |
| 4 | Carr , who went the distance with Wharton last time , protested about the stoppage , after 2min 7sec of the eighth round , but if referee Dave Parris had allowed the fight to continue the Australian could have been in serious trouble . |
| 5 | Otherwise he might have been in serious trouble . |
| 6 | If Kirsty had fallen ill once they were down in London she would have been forced to stay there until she 'd recovered — and then she would have been in serious trouble , not only with Jake but with the law as well . |
| 7 | If it had been left any longer he could have been in serious trouble . |
| 8 | The economy had been in serious trouble during 1972 and 1973 . |
| 9 | Certain members of the Olympic Vibes team have been in serious disarray after one glimpse of this , and the guilty lightweights have been duly suspended from club duty . |