Example sentences of "been [adj] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a tenable hypothesis that Bayezid II did indeed set a pattern and that many of the later foundations involving a joint muderris/muftilik were made simply in imitation of his precedent , though their effect might have been to create an official muftilik where none had existed before or to upgrade an existing muftilik ( which latter may well have been Bayezid II's intention in Amasya and Istanbul ) . |
| 2 | There had been strong anti-JNA feeling in Slovenia since the notorious 1988 trial of journalists and a warrant officer accused of illegally disclosing secret plans for a military clampdown against Slovene liberals [ see pp. 36374 ; 36663 ] . |
| 3 | There has been extensive theoretical discussion about how this affects the Kolmogorov result , suggesting that with n a little larger than 5/3 but not exactly known . |
| 4 | Outside the EC there has been direct scientific collaboration with scientists in California , in Memphis , Tennessee , and in Moscow . |
| 5 | The LFS shows that a quarter of all persons who had been unemployed 12 months before the survey , but who were in work on the survey date , had temporary jobs , compared with just over three per cent who had been in work on both dates . |
| 6 | The Pakistanis have been incensed all summer by mutterings that they only make the old ball swing so violently by tampering with it . |
| 7 | Penelope Lord ( Mrs Baines ) since 1988 has been Principal Clinical Psychologist with the North Devon Health Authority , based in Barnstaple . |
| 8 | There have been distinct evolutionary changes in the focus , style and methodology of evaluation . |
| 9 | Slavery and imperial domination have been crucial social forces in the emergence of a modern world order , characterized by the striking inequalities which provide the essential backdrop to an understanding of the post-Second World War migrations of black communities to Britain , and which continue to generate migratory pressures on peoples from the Third World . |
| 10 | It ca n't be any coincidence that the women he has gone out with have been typical English roses with titles , and the Duchess tops the lot . |
| 11 | Thus what would once have been typical neurotic conflicts between the ego and the id are much more likely to present themselves today as delinquency and compulsive acting-out . |
| 12 | There have been serious methodological limitations to much of the research implicating personality factors in anorexia nervosa . |
| 13 | The veteran leaders of both of the country 's main parties , who had been personal political rivals since the 1960s , resigned their party posts during February-March . |
| 14 | In recent years , however , there has been rapid economic development in parts of the South , notably in South-East Asia , while core economies , including those of the United States and Great Britain , have suffered recession . |
| 15 | He said that there had been unprecedented civilian involvement in the coup attempt and that the government did not want its opponents to exploit the situation through the media . |
| 16 | Probably anticipating the enhancing of the already considerable temperature that might ensue from a stretch of proven hell-raising , Pukwana called for a blues , and set about declaring his intent with that impassioned alto cry ( the instrument in his hands displaying the weight of the tenor as well as the wild , wayward quality of the higher horn ) that has been thrilling British audiences since the Sixties . |
| 17 | There had been widespread public opposition to the commitment of some 8,000 Pakistani troops to the United States-led coalition [ see pp. 37641 ; 37694 ] . |
| 18 | But I think , we 've not been good attracting women into services , I think , the responsibility that a woman drug user has over child care and a whole range of other things that male drug users do n't have . |
| 19 | In the first place protectionism had been traditional Conservative policy before the emergence of free trade and Joseph Chamberlain had revived some sympathy for the idea in the early twentieth century . |
| 20 | There have recently been encouraging medical advances in treating people with HIV who show no signs of being ill . |
| 21 | He was diving with his wife Deborah they had been married 15 days off the resort town of Byron Bay , 400 miles north of Sydney . |
| 22 | As these examples indicate , there have been great environmental gains in traffic restraint areas , quite apart from the traffic improvements . |
| 23 | It 's been great great success for everybody , er all the competitors have enjoyed it , I think all the organizers have enjoyed it as well and I think we 're all looking forward to coming back next year . |
| 24 | Some of them are , of course , capital cities , comparable only to London , but most of the others ( we tend to forget ) have equally been great urban centres for many hundreds of years , while Britain 's biggest cities are mostly products of the Industrial Revolution . |
| 25 | There has been regular live coverage of the House on Westminster Live from 3.05 pm till about 3.50 pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays ( including Prime Minister 's Questions ) and occasional other live coverage of both the Chamber and select committees . |
| 26 | AEA 's Commercial and Planning Director , James Bretherton , commented that the ‘ MMC Report has been useful external validation of what we are trying to achieve . |
| 27 | There have been useful specific contact with El Salvador , Guatemala and Malawi . |
| 28 | There have been competent academic overviews of the Labour Party 's evolution from people such as David Howell and James Hinton ; and a whole 1960s and 1970s genre of Marxist accounts , following Ralph Miliband , on the lines of ‘ the uselessness of Labourism ’ . |
| 29 | Second , there may have been severe emotional damage in the past : broken or spoiled relationships with loved ones or with church leaders that have led to unbelief and lack of expectation that God would pour his Spirit into our lives . |
| 30 | These could have been gross bawdy parodies in the arena to the great delight of the multitude . |