Example sentences of "been [adj] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may have been due partly to prudence . |
| 2 | What had happened to us could not , I thought , have been due entirely to education — not even to the idea that girls develop more quickly than boys to a certain point and then slow down ; but as I still clung loyally to my little world where all clergymen were good , all solicitors honest , and all philosophers and experts different from ordinary people and unquestionably right , I struggled hard against any idea that I might still be wiser than Bertrand Russell in some respects . |
| 3 | She had been dismissive enough with Manfro , but she was n't quite sure how she was going to get out of her predicament . |
| 4 | The numerical details of the results may not be generally applicable , since the flow was still developing in the downstream direction at the observing station ( and the Reynolds number may not have been high enough for Ri to be the only parameter ) ; but the results should indicate well the general trends . |
| 5 | Copper was found in Crete itself , especially in the Asterousi mountains bordering the Mesara plain , and some may have come from Chrysokamino , near the coast east of Pachyammos , but the demand for metal artefacts is likely to have been high enough for imports of copper to be necessary . |
| 6 | It 's always been popular along with students ai n't it ? |
| 7 | Hereford are a real hard luck story this season … nothing seems to go their way … they could have been 2-1 up at half-time … surely Leroy May could n't get any closer to scoring … |
| 8 | In both cases the home team had been 2-0 down at half-time , Southampton fighting back , literally , to force a draw , Arsenal a win . |
| 9 | Besides , the sorts of holidays Rose and I usually go on would n't have been up-market enough for George . ’ |
| 10 | As in that night in the hut , she had been conscious only of fitzAlan and the wild sensations he aroused in her . |
| 11 | Obviously we have n't been good away from home this season but I was pleased again with the attitude on Saturday . |
| 12 | BPB Industries , the old British Plaster Board , which has been firm lately on stake building stories , fell 9p to 253p . |
| 13 | Learning by rote has been long out of fashion , but I loved reciting poetry , and can remember long poems learned when I was too young to understand the words , but just loved the sound of them . |
| 14 | They should of been all out in teams . |
| 15 | It should have been anthemic instead of light and poppy . |
| 16 | For policy-makers , the problems of research and measurement of a large number of important variables , often of a non-quantitative kind , have been severe both in population studies and in soil conservation . |
| 17 | Has the government been tough enough on polluters ? |
| 18 | Your mother would have been stuck just like Pooh Bear . ’ |
| 19 | But I 've been stuck here for ages . |
| 20 | They 've been stuck together for hours . ’ |
| 21 | It was claimed in 1803 that no less than 90 out of 165 canal acts obtained since 1758 had been concerned primarily with coal carriage , while a further 47 had been linked to iron or non-ferrous metal works or mines . |
| 22 | Assessment in particular subject areas , including mathematics , has traditionally been concerned mainly with knowledge and techniques . |
| 23 | So far in our discussion of adult language processing we have been concerned mainly with language perception and comprehension . |
| 24 | All my thoughts , actions and energies for the last four months had been concerned only with Nigel . |
| 25 | She had herself spent several weeks alone in her cottage when she had just bought it and when she returned to mix with people she had found that her vocabulary had deserted her , that without stimulation she had completely lost the art of conversation , had been able only to mutter inanities in monosyllabic form . |
| 26 | This option would not have been available previously under SSAP 15 . |
| 27 | San Diego-based TeleSoft Inc says its TeleAda-Exec Ada-oriented real-time executive , is now available for MIPS Computer Systems Inc R3000 target systems : up to now , it has been available only for Motorola 68000 and Intel 80386 targets , but it now works in conjunction with the TeleGen2 Ada VAX-host/R3000-target Cross Development System . |
| 28 | The bland self-satisfaction of the shipowners and their refusal to accept the need for reforms of any kind had been familiar enough to Samuel Plimsoll and other friends of the merchant seamen and exposed in the House of Commons for upwards of half a century . |
| 29 | The development of telephone advice for rural areas has been successful both in East Anglia and in Northumberland . |
| 30 | Secondly , it has been successful both in terms of increasing its obvious and immediate performance locally and nationally , and also in terms of preparing people for a wider involvement in partnership development in new and less obvious directions . |