Example sentences of "been [adj] [prep] [adj] [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 | Surely she 'd only been asleep for five minutes at the very most ? |
| 4 | She must have been asleep for some hours when the sound of her opening bedroom door penetrated her dreams and brought her instantly awake . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ The nurse tells me she 's been asleep for some time . ’ |
| 7 | The currency has been stable for six months . |
| 8 | The mammalian gut has been stable for many millennia and acts to constrain the flexibility of E. coli 's genome . |
| 9 | Thus even the earliest and most modest collection of phrase structure rules would have been pregnant with new output ; and as the rules became entrenched so too would innovative effort and diagnostic insight become more relaxed and automatic , as words appeared newly combined in well-understood syntactic contexts . |
| 10 | She has been depressed for some time . |
| 11 | They say she 'd been depressed in recent days |
| 12 | That charge has been wrong-headed for some years ; nevertheless , it has been sustained by enough left-wing activity to feed Conservative propaganda . |
| 13 | In many rural areas it has therefore been usual for local farm workers to work on the land ‘ man and boy ’ . |
| 14 | OVER the past decade , experimental methods have been used to increasing effect to discover the empirical strengths and weaknesses of economic theories , and to supplement empirical evidence obtained using more conventional econometric methods . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Runcorn opened on June 1 and has been terrific with small fish all along and bream at Astmoor and S Bends . |
| 19 | It 's tremendous as it 's been dry for 10 years . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Well it 's been dry for another day . |
| 22 | The ethnic factor was relatively unimportant as until recently immigrants have been under-represented in local authority accommodation . |
| 23 | But the discharge may be refused or postponed if he has been guilty of certain offences or misconduct in connection with the bankruptcy , or if his assets are insufficient for the payment of 50p in the £ , unless this is shown not to be due to the debtor 's fault . |
| 24 | He 's been guilty of sharp practice in the past , though this is undoubtedly the worst example I 've come across personally . ’ |
| 25 | has been guilty of fraudulent trading contrary to s. 458 of the Companies Act 1985 ; |
| 26 | Of course if her doctor has been guilty of serious neglect , you and your parent may decide that you should lodge a complaint with the local Community Health Council , whose job is to represent to the Area Health Authority the interests of the public in the district in which it operates . |
| 27 | Under the Common Law , proof that the plaintiff had been guilty of contributory negligence , and that he had the ‘ last opportunity ’ of avoiding the accident , entirely deprived him of his remedy . |
| 28 | Public protest followed a judge who fined a rapist 2,000 after asserting that the woman had been guilty of contributory negligence by hitch-hiking . |
| 29 | He was therefore held to have been guilty of contributory negligence and the widow 's damages reduced . |
| 30 | Under the old law of larceny he may not have been guilty of attempted larceny . |