Example sentences of "been [adj] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the end of Athens ' archaic war with Eleusis it would have been absurd for any deme of Attica to think of rivalling Athens . |
| 2 | Whereas , none of the bands I 've been in have ever been showbizzy in that sense , and if we 're in a bad mood then we play really badly . |
| 3 | She must have been asleep for some hours when the sound of her opening bedroom door penetrated her dreams and brought her instantly awake . |
| 4 | He had been asleep for some time , physically exhausted after his ordeal , but now he tossed and turned , held fast in the grip of some awful nightmare . |
| 5 | ‘ The nurse tells me she 's been asleep for some time . ’ |
| 6 | The mammalian gut has been stable for many millennia and acts to constrain the flexibility of E. coli 's genome . |
| 7 | She has been depressed for some time . |
| 8 | That charge has been wrong-headed for some years ; nevertheless , it has been sustained by enough left-wing activity to feed Conservative propaganda . |
| 9 | and wild beyond er , that one boy who was and had n't been used to that sort of thing , for his father had kept a small cook stock his companion that unless he has another basin of gruel he was afraid he might , he might some night happen to eat , eat the boy he slept next to , who happened to be a weakly youth of tender eight and they , and they impeccably believed him . |
| 10 | Resorting to personal ties to survive or advance is a mechanism which has been used to some effect over the generations , but which prevents people turning to organisations or political activity which might , in the long run , prove more effective in solving their problems . |
| 11 | Adult worm burdens are typically in excess of 40,000 , although lower numbers are often found in animals which has been diarrhoeic for several days prior to necropsy . |
| 12 | The weather had been dry for some time and , fanned by an easterly wind , the fire spread rapidly until , within three days , it had engulfed most of the city . |
| 13 | Well it 's been dry for another day . |
| 14 | Tumin claims that the American Medical Association has been guilty of this practice . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | has been guilty of any fraud in relation to the company while an officer , etc. , of the company . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | The significant results achieved using this text may have been specific to this domain and hence not necessarily repeatable in other domains ( i.e. the OALD may provide unusually good coverage of commercial or financial terminology ) . |
| 20 | His friend and doctor , Dr James Mortimer , said that Sir Charles ' heart had been weak for some time . |
| 21 | Thereafter the play received a few critically acclaimed performances in Birmingham but has otherwise been unperformed in this country . |
| 22 | I 'm ten years older now , and in retrospect I see that if Francesca had lived we would n't have been right for each other . ’ |
| 23 | Mr Chapman was prosecuted under s 37 of the 1974 Act , which states that where an offence under any of the relevant statutory provisions committed by a corporate body is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of , or to have been attributable to any neglect on the part of , any director , manager , secretary , or similar officer , or a person who was purporting to act in any such capacity , he , as well as the corporate body , shall be guilty of that offence . |
| 24 | Rumours of cutbacks at the factory have been rife for some time . |
| 25 | It had originally been left to her by a noted amateur ornithologist and eccentric with whom she had been friendly for many years . |
| 26 | The state 's involvement offers crucial protection , since failure to accept a coin or tampering with it in some way , like making a forgery , then is regarded as a crime against the state , and serious penalties including execution have frequently been normal for such activities . |
| 27 | Lady Street had returned to what must have been normal for any morning at this time ; the delivery vans had gone , there was sporadic traffic in the one-way street , and people had no time to stand about gawping at the bookshop though they slowed their pace in passing and tried to look in without appearing to do so . |
| 28 | Here again Suger was reasserting royal supremacy in a world which had long been deaf to such claims . |
| 29 | ‘ There had been a good relationship on the whole between the management and myself and it has been supportive on both sides . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ A number of invitations have been outstanding for some time , and people just chose to take them up at this stage , ’ one said . |