Example sentences of "[been] [adj] of [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tumin claims that the American Medical Association has been guilty of this practice . |
| 2 | In that process , it may well be that some of those concerned in the management of the company , and others as well , have been guilty of some misconduct or impropriety which is of relevance to the liquidation . |
| 3 | Given the Committee 's proposals on buggery , this would have meant that a man who procured a woman 's submission to anal intercourse by threats other than of violence would not necessarily have been guilty of any offence . |
| 4 | has been guilty of any fraud in relation to the company while an officer , etc. , of the company . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Another line of attack has been that of some psychologists who have concentrated their fire on the question whether the type of experimental procedure designed to produce associative learning in Aplysia can ‘ really ’ be said to fulfil the conditions required for classical conditioning . |
| 7 | He and Franca had always been fond of each other . |
| 8 | In the past most of us have been unaware of these signs and that is why our body ceases to function normally . |
| 9 | However , it 's all extremely well played , the Waltz is light as air , and the Elegy all the more moving for its having been relieved of any hint of bogus pathos . |
| 10 | In other ministerial changes announced on the same day by President Daniel Arap Moi , ( i ) John Okwanyo was appointed to the Water Development portfolio ; ( ii ) Matthews Onyango Midika replaced Okwanyo as Minister for Regional Development ; and ( iii ) John Kyalo was appointed as a Minister in the Office of the President , replacing Johnstone Muendo Makau who had been relieved of this post ( to which he had been appointed in May 1989 — see p. 36648 ) on March 2 [ for full Cabinet list as of September 1989 see p. 36917 ] . |
| 11 | There was no logical reason why they should add to the vague tension he 'd been conscious of all day . |
| 12 | Perhaps the Indians would have done so if they had been conscious of any pressure of numbers on the land , but North America was not crowded and the Indians assisted the new settlers and showed them how to grow the local crops . |
| 13 | She was not going to fall in love with him , but even as she said this vehemently to herself , Sara was afraid that she had already gone over the precipice she had been conscious of this morning . |
| 14 | The pre-race hype had been worthy of any world heavyweight boxing match , on a par with Ali and Frazier . |
| 15 | Many people have been glad of this device over the years , which has saved them from death or serious injury . |
| 16 | Arthur had been all of those things himself : hunter , warrior , then king . ’ |
| 17 | In general , biologists have been distrustful of such leaps of the imagination , although later geneticists have followed Mendel 's example : a recent case is the postulation by Jacob and Monod of ‘ repressors ’ , described on p. 65 . |
| 18 | A few years ago any self respecting farmer would have been ashamed of this field , with its bumper crop of nettles and thistles … |
| 19 | Even the chickens must have been ashamed of those parts of their bodies when they were alive . |
| 20 | Dr Dichter would have been proud of that piece of depth thinking . |
| 21 | The late Ray Petri would have been proud of this issue . |
| 22 | Big Daddy would have been proud of this tackle on Dave Mitchell , but the ref waved play on . |
| 23 | A West Point cadet would have been proud of those shoes already . |
| 24 | How could he have been capable of such cruelty ? |
| 25 | For Gordon might well have been one of this newspaper 's very first journalists . |
| 26 | It has always been one of those comedies built on character and situation . |
| 27 | I could have been one of those prophets who foretold him . |
| 28 | It had been one of those mornings when the early sun striking the coloured glass of the landing window had tinted the dark hall with amber light . |
| 29 | It has not been one of those lives where people are rejected and say , ‘ I 'll show them . ’ |
| 30 | Had I been born in the Middle Ages , I knew that I would have been one of those retainers who stayed inside the castle and embroidered whilst the knights went off to slaughter the French . |