Example sentences of "been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she had lost her virginity four nights earlier , Constance had been elated ; but now she felt as she had always understood women did on their bridal night : deeply upset and even slightly resentful at what had happened . |
| 2 | Previously the longest period without a lost day accident at the site , where paint manufacturer started in 1990 , had been 372 days , achieved in 1989 . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've been bad-tempered . ’ |
| 4 | Right , it 's clear i n't it under four rule twenty eight , four , it 's not essential for the disallowance of any cost or interest that er the taxing officer should be satisfied that erm the other party has been prejudiced , in fact that is not a condition precedent to the exercise of his part and disallow interest in this here item , er any prejudice there maybe is merely one factor to be taken into account in other matters and it does seem to me that the fact the court can , can properly and should properly take into account , is , is that erm , it is desirable that to litigation should erm comply with there obligations , either expressly , express or explicit under the rules of the court to comply with matter such as it should have orders part drawn up and served as appropriate , as I say it seems to me that er the plaintiffs 's can be criticized in not erm having perfected the order of Mr Justice er before they did so but er , I have , it seems to me to look at all the relevant pictures in the case , er if it were the case that the plaintiff suffered any prejudice as the result of that claim , clearly that would be a matter which I would have to take into account , but I 'm bound to say it does n't seem to me that the fender of the plaintiffs to perfect the order did in fact cause any prejudice to the plaintiff and indeed if they , the plaintiffs had perfected the order , it seems to me exactly the same course of events as in fact transpired in this case , would actually have occurred and would n't make any difference at all , so unless it 's a matter of simply of er seeking to punish the plaintiff as a matter of discipline , it seems to me there is a , not really anything in the point that the order was not perfected er when it seems to me it should of been , and I , there stood to see the other er circumstances , now it 's quite clear to me having been referred to correspondence , passing between the solicitors that erm although really from a very early stage er the plaintiffs solicitors referring to Mr a letter of early nineteen ninety one indicating that erm the view was being taken that the likelihood was that erm the plaintiffs would have to get their costs out of the defendants share and interest in the premises and er that would be a matter which could only be dealt with when the enquiries director by Mr Justice had been dealt with . |
| 5 | His parting with Hannele had been low-key , and saddening . |
| 6 | If , like me , you have learned that a certain amount of filamentous algae is an inevitable fact of modern pondkeeping , you may have been tolerant of its growth during the summer months . |
| 7 | ‘ Up to then , the fans had been tolerant , but they began to get on my back after that . |
| 8 | The Labour government that died in 1951 had been tolerant of the corporate state , reverent of union power and credulous of collectivism , and its spirit persisted : by the 1970s half and more of those in full-time employment in Britain were employed , directly or indirectly , by the state . |
| 9 | According to popular tradition , Constantine had always been tolerant , if not sympathetic , towards Christianity — an intrinsically ‘ good man ’ , even before he ‘ saw the light ’ definitively . |
| 10 | It is a tenable hypothesis that Bayezid II did indeed set a pattern and that many of the later foundations involving a joint muderris/muftilik were made simply in imitation of his precedent , though their effect might have been to create an official muftilik where none had existed before or to upgrade an existing muftilik ( which latter may well have been Bayezid II's intention in Amasya and Istanbul ) . |
| 11 | More ( 1967 ) in a review of hydrological models in geography concluded that although there are large areas of overlap between hydrology and geography , the two disciplines have developed quite separately , that many of the hydrological models developed have not been geographic in their inception , but that geographers should not ignore the implications of the fast-moving science of hydrology . |
| 12 | Epic have been fabulous ; they 're much better known for the Michael Jacksons and George Michaels of this world , but they 've been really helpful to me … ’ |
| 13 | My husband Kerry bought me the Boots one for £30 , and it 's been fabulous . |
| 14 | I was also beginning to see why Edward had been loth to speak openly about his work . |
| 15 | With the thought of the malevolent listening bug on the sea-floor dominating every other in his mind , Talbot had sought Lieutenant Denholm 's advice on the question of noise suppression : Denholm had not been half-hearted in his recommendations , with the result that the use of all mechanical devices on the ship , from generators to electric shavers , had been banned . |
| 16 | The Guardian , Times and Evening Standard have been half-hearted in their approach to paperback originals ; and the lowest scores were notched up by Today and the Financial Times . |
| 17 | Even since the war industrial relocation schemes for rural areas have been half-hearted and inadequate . |
| 18 | Neither measure has proved very effective partly because governments have been half-hearted . |
| 19 | It has been iced to resemble the cover of the guide . |
| 20 | Much of the rhetoric of the war effort had been imperialistic and the imperial idea retained strong political allegiance after 1945 especially on the right of British politics . |
| 21 | Several organisations have been signed-up to the rebuild and the schedule has the aircraft flying on the 50th anniversary date . |
| 22 | As for the tabloids , additions to the range of publications have either been arm's-length extensions of existing publishing groups ( Today , 1986 — ) or born out of existing publishing houses ( Mail on Sunday , 1983 — , Star , 1978 ) . |
| 23 | Stewards said Charlie 's penalty would have been harsher had it not been his first race . |
| 24 | Industrial discipline has always been harsher for manual than non-manual workers . |
| 25 | Over the years the impact of new taxes have invariably been harsher on small businesses . |
| 26 | Tekere alleged that four of his supporters had been killed in Harare , and that others had been harassed ; he also claimed there had been administrative irregularities in the polling . |
| 27 | The basis for assessment , therefore , would have been administrative records such as tax registers , providing evidence of the value to the monarch of individual civitates , which had been the basic units of government in the later Roman Empire . |
| 28 | It is natural that parents , and mothers in particular , should feel sadness and a sense of bereavement , whether or not they have been full-time housewives and mothers . |
| 29 | The Government have been woolly about the exact meaning of their proposals . |
| 30 | He wanted a reserved figure because previous applicants had all been loud and pushy . |