Example sentences of "been [adj] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I enjoyed the stew I looked at my watch , it was just after mid-day ; I had been asleep for nearly four hours . |
| 2 | The heavy lunch and the wine had made her sleepy , and she took to her bed the minute they returned , only awakening when the hunger pangs assaulted her stomach , to see that she had been asleep for over three hours . |
| 3 | She felt as though she 'd been asleep for about five minutes ! |
| 4 | But in private he affected too much modesty , and before 1922 had been junior to too many of them . |
| 5 | The government for its part claimed that the Tigers had been guilty of over 30 breaches ; reports also indicated that they had used the opportunity to build new fortifications near government military bases in the north Jaffna area and near the Elephant Pass ( linking the Jaffna Peninsula with the rest of the country ) . |
| 6 | Writing on a touch sensitive computer screen with a ‘ stylus ’ just like using a pen and paper has been possible for quite some time now . |
| 7 | As chapter 3 shows , however , such developments have been possible in only some industries and to varying degrees . |
| 8 | But he has been wrong on so many political issues . ’ |
| 9 | It guarantees a place to anyone aged 18 to 25 who has been unemployed for over six months , and attempts to offer a place to anyone up to 50 who has been unemployed for over two years . |
| 10 | It guarantees a place to anyone aged 18 to 25 who has been unemployed for over six months , and attempts to offer a place to anyone up to 50 who has been unemployed for over two years . |
| 11 | Sociologists had long been interested in why many working-class pupils did not do as well as middle-class children at school . |
| 12 | From as early as the 1860s , Western scientists have been interested in how these colours were produced . |
| 13 | From the 11th century , such events had been popular for about 500 years but over the centuries there had been great changes to the ways in which they had been conducted . |
| 14 | Participants were asked to write the letter so that , if they had really received it , they would have been delighted at how many of their own aspirations as a teacher had been fulfilled — at least for this one pupil . |
| 15 | Although it seems highly probable that sea level changes have been similar over very large areas of the earth 's surface , the possibility of local terraces of different dates due to other causes can not be excluded . |
| 16 | Hitherto , they had been subject to largely servile pieces , containing five paragraphs of biographical detail , three to describe the speed of the music ( with at least one simile ) and two humorous asides from Gedge . |
| 17 | Since the 1960s in England , football spectatorship has been subject to increasingly stringent surveillance from the football authorities , law and the police . |
| 18 | Counter arguments may not be employed to full effect , and individual injustices ( perhaps involving parents who have been subject to wholly baseless accusations ) may not be exposed . |
| 19 | In general , investors have not been subject to particularly extensive instances where malpractice has damaged the value of their investments . |
| 20 | Even in the ‘ feminine ’ arts , however , women have been subject to more subtle pressures : arts , it is believed , are the domain of ‘ feminine ’ men , not women , and there have been attempts in recent years to render the arts more ‘ masculine ’ . |
| 21 | A similar long bridge crosses the Taw at Barnstaple , but this is neither as long nor as irregular as the Bideford bridge , and has been subject to more extensive alteration . |
| 22 | Owner-occupancy has probably been subject to less direct legislative activity than have the two other main tenures . |
| 23 | The ovipositor has been visible for about 10 days , and is more prominent in one fish than in the other . |
| 24 | Oppressed for 40 years by the world 's toughest dictator , Albania has been democratic for only 6 months . |
| 25 | The thought of it had been impossible for so long that it took some getting used to . |
| 26 | Oh he 'd been ill for about six months I think , but erm |
| 27 | Gwrych Castle was offered rent-free by Lord Dundonald — who also made a grant towards rates and taxes and paid half the cost of repairs — a necessarily generous offer since the castle had been uninhabited for over fifteen years . |
| 28 | They had already been unlucky with just five minutes remaining in normal time , when Neil Webb 's shot cannoned back off the foot of the post . |
| 29 | She will assume that her villainous son has been involved in yet more villainy . ’ |
| 30 | In the interim he calculates his players have been involved in perhaps four club tournaments . |