Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feeling pleased for them , I lowered the binoculars through which I 'd been able to see even the tears on Mrs Unwin 's cheeks , and there below me and in front of the grandstand was the man with the gaunt face looking up towards the Clubhouse windows . |
| 2 | But I think I would be giving you the wrong impression if I suggested that most of the evaluation studies with which I 've been concerned have involved this kind of conclusion , or this kind of result . |
| 3 | The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory . |
| 4 | It impelled me to request Eliot , for the first time of more times than I care to remember-as it was a chore which I have been obliged to shoulder often enough myself-to act as a referee . |
| 5 | As the protagonist in Kafka 's Conversation with a Suppliant confessed : ‘ There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive . ’ |
| 6 | Another boot which I have been impressed with is the Cima Vango , which gives a wide fit across the toes and is now produced with a highly water-resistant Anfibio leather . |
| 7 | ‘ What remains is the problem which I have been concerned with over the past year , which is to try to regenerate enough political pressure within the international community to oblige Iran to reverse its current policy . |
| 8 | Political sociologists , in so far as they are not engaged in mainly descriptive and historical studies , now devote much of their effort either to analysing methodological problems of the kind which I outlined in the Introduction , or to reappraising and reinterpreting those nineteenth-century theories in which the ideas with which I have been concerned throughout this book — democracy , class , capitalism , socialism , the nation — were originally formulated and diffused . |
| 9 | ‘ I am returning the delightful Quarto edition of Crowe 's poem , from which I have been able to observe what he did later with the piece . |
| 10 | If you identify strongly with those you study you may not appreciate the extent to which you have been brain-washed . |
| 11 | But just before the deal was finalised , Ms Cann realised there were four more Animals of Farthing Wood titles of which she had been unaware . |
| 12 | Anna thought about the needlework classes of her schooldays , in which she had been such a conspicuous non-success . |
| 13 | But that , after all , was the only discussion at which she had been present , and many conclusions , clearly , had been come to since then . |
| 14 | While no one must know the extent to which she had been alarmed , she had no objection to them knowing the cause . |
| 15 | She sat down awkwardly on one of the chairs , feeling highly incongruous in her black dress , which she had been obliged to put back on that morning , and looked down at her stiletto-clad feet . |
| 16 | She repressed a shudder as he took the bonnet and curled himself down onto the floor holding it daintily between his long fingers — which she had been careful to avoid touching . |
| 17 | Britain had successfully negotiated long-term contracts for the total output from the Congo , and so had a near monopoly of ore supplies , which she had been happy to share with the US in the wartime atomic weapons programme . |
| 18 | The police had apologized for the incident as if they were personally to blame , their apologies becoming even more profuse as they told her that , without a number plate ( which she had been unable to remember ) to trace , there was little chance of them finding the car , let alone the driver . |
| 19 | AFTER a total of 36 years ' service in the nuclear industry — during which she has been personal secretary to no fewer than three chairmen — Dorothy Ashurst has retired . |
| 20 | Germany must now reject the alien influence of Romance culture , to which she has been subservient , and develop her full creative potential ; and for this purpose , Hellenism , as an educational and cultural force in our society , is more necessary than ever . |
| 21 | It adopted the then new methodology of selecting inventive products which had reached the market and making pairs of companies of which one had been successful and the other unsuccessful . |
| 22 | I think there 's only one other point which I 'd I 'd like to make and that concerns the the programme re-orientation and the cost implications of that er one aspect of programme re-orientation which we 've been conscious of is the need to preserve the delivery dates of the first production standard aircraft to the Royal Air Force and Italian Air Force in the year two thousand . |
| 23 | On arrival I went to the Met Office to see the TAF which we 'd been unable to obtain at Vigo , and the forecast was three at 2,800 , with no mention of stratus ! |
| 24 | We have felt very much a part of Queen 's Park during our 3 years in Glasgow , a lot of which is owed to our friends in the 2 fellowship groups which we have been involved with . |
| 25 | Given the state of the war , the undeniable growth of anti-Nazi feeling , and the rising criticism of Hitler himself , which we have been able to document for the years 1942–4 , such reports can hardly have been an accurate reflection of existing attitudes . |
| 26 | M. Dauphin 's books include many on Japan , providing a valuable complement to the more recent publications which we have been able to acquire through the generosity of our anonymous Japanese benefactor . |
| 27 | ‘ This creates a growing market which we have been unable to sell into until now , ’ said Portersept marketing manager . |
| 28 | There are , however , a number of difficulties with this perspective , and especially about the core issue with which we have been concerned . |
| 29 | Life is brief , and the removal of a long-tolerated equally with a long-loved landmark alters and injures the world in which we have been happier than we have deserved to be . |
| 30 | When predicated of any individual feeling , the information they convey is that of its likeness to the other feelings which we have been accustomed to call by the same name . |