Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This work has been useful in two main areas : analysis of types of content — see Berelson ( 1950 ) and Williams ( 1962 ) — and of the selection and portrayal of certain social figures — see Lowenthal ( 1961 ) . |
| 2 | The work has been useful in 2 ways : firstly , it has yielded demonstrator programmes that can be used to convince more senior officers ; and it has increased the number of people available with some knowledge of expert systems . |
| 3 | Er , if the person er is sitting watching the television and er has been awake for several hours then we are at a disadvantage . |
| 4 | Quite the opposite , in fact , has happened , as seasoned Royal-watcher James Whittaker points out : ‘ The Queen has been phenomenal during these 40 years . |
| 5 | Interest has been phenomenal with all Areas represented by ladies 7s and gents 11s . |
| 6 | One has been convinced for some time that the idea was to take Weir in the guise of a No 6 . |
| 7 | Ecstasy , which has been illegal since 1977 , is used by many on the rave scene . |
| 8 | The sale of cigarettes to children has been illegal since 1904 . |
| 9 | Not much has been made of this migration , some ethnic tension apart , and even less of the fact that in the years since the second world war it has been essential for western European economic life . |
| 10 | The difference has been essential to European culture and civilisation since the Renaissance at least . |
| 11 | Photographic recording of naevi and use of these photographs to detect change suggesting development of melanoma has been essential in this study . |
| 12 | For a long time it has been content with this unchanging splendour but more recently it has treated itself to a quartier in the most modern style , complete with a magnificent new concert hall , the Corum ( which unfortunately appears to have been built on ground that it is less than stable ) . |
| 13 | John Brushwood from Hook End , has been hand-picked from this month 's lucky dip , as the winner of a year 's supply of Scuba World . |
| 14 | In a sustained way ( meaning in more than sporadic decisions ) , it can be argued that the court has been critical to national questions only twice . |
| 15 | Rowlands has been critical of Welsh officials who went to the SA Rugby Board celebrations . |
| 16 | ‘ The spirit has been good through all these bad days we 've had lately , but it was even better today and everyone hoped the money was a sign things are turning round . ’ |
| 17 | However , if the house has been unoccupied for some time , the boards will need to be conditioned with water — this method can also help to flatten wavy boards . |
| 18 | He has been friendly with Holy Trinity 's vicar since teaching him at theological college in Durham . |
| 19 | ‘ ( 1 ) The ex turpi causa defence ultimately rests on a principle of public policy that the courts will not assist a plaintiff who has been guilty of illegal ( or immoral ) conduct of which the courts should take notice . |
| 20 | But the discharge may be refused or postponed if he has been guilty of certain offences or misconduct in connection with the bankruptcy , or if his assets are insufficient for the payment of 50p in the £ , unless this is shown not to be due to the debtor 's fault . |
| 21 | has been guilty of fraudulent trading contrary to s. 458 of the Companies Act 1985 ; |
| 22 | Of course if her doctor has been guilty of serious neglect , you and your parent may decide that you should lodge a complaint with the local Community Health Council , whose job is to represent to the Area Health Authority the interests of the public in the district in which it operates . |
| 23 | 12–7– They dealt with " Mary Trotter who before joining the Free Church has been guilty of antenuptial fornication and that while a communicant . " |
| 24 | has been guilty of any fraud in relation to the company while an officer , etc. , of the company . |
| 25 | It will , however , consider whether the Panel has observed the basic rules of natural justice and has observed its own procedural rules and whether it has been guilty of any irrationality or has misdirected itself in law ( see Datafin ) . |
| 26 | Tumin claims that the American Medical Association has been guilty of this practice . |
| 27 | Damaris discovers that she has been guilty of intellectual sin in failing to believe , to realize imaginatively , the nature of the material she is studying . |
| 28 | Next in schedule three there is provision to compensate Mr and Mrs for the extra work involved in caring for Paul , it is agreed that er since they are in the special position of course of being Paul 's carers they are , not er , I mean no disrespect to nursing but they 're not erm it is agreed that there should a deduction of twenty five percent , that would give an annual figure of two thousand , six hundred and thirty one times four will amount to ten thousand five hundred and twenty four pounds , adding these figures together , future care during schooling comes if my addition has been accurate to ninety three thousand , six hundred and fifty pounds in total . |
| 29 | The attack on a dichotomy of form and content has been persistent in modern criticism ; to change so much as a word , the argument runs , is to change the meaning as well . |
| 30 | And in looking at the experience not merely of Asia , but also of Africa , what becomes increasingly apparent is that most development strategies have tended _ particularly when we look at technical change — erm have tended to bypass women , or in many cases one also notes that the impact of technical change has been detrimental to poor women , and examples of this can be found , for instance , in terms of adoption of certain kinds of technique , like mechanisation of rice processing in parts of Asia , where one finds that there has been a large scale displacement of landless women . |