Example sentences of "been [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tekere alleged that four of his supporters had been killed in Harare , and that others had been harassed ; he also claimed there had been administrative irregularities in the polling . |
| 2 | Daly stressed the narrowness of most reefs and showed , from examples where the rate of reef growth is known , that there had been ample time in the Post-glacial period for the growth of modern reefs . |
| 3 | For goods , there had been tariff-free trade in manufactures since 1972 , but non-tariff barriers would now be removed . |
| 4 | Men had only ever been pleasant pastimes in her full and varied life . |
| 5 | The systematic study of a non-standard system , however , supports the argument that there could have been orderly variation in EModE involving merger and reversal patterns of /a/ and /Ε/; ( or /α/); in certain consonantal environments , and suggests that the usual account of the history of /a/ ( fronting to [ ae ] and subsequent split into two RP phonemes ) is oversimplified . |
| 6 | This and similar observations indicate that the polymer can occupy less volume when surrounded by benzene molecules and that there must have been unused space in the glassy matrix to allow this increase in packing efficiency to occur . |
| 7 | Pablo Merry del Val , whose father had been Spanish Ambassador in London , conducted briefings for the correspondents and censored their dispatches . |
| 8 | There have been total bans in many other countries dating from more than five years ago . |
| 9 | With this in mind , the company has been investing money in planting new crops before the threat of a ban becomes reality . |
| 10 | I accept what the hon. Lady suggests , because clearly there have been regional differences in economic conditions . |
| 11 | Spit and polish and the mindless regime of kit preparation have never been guiding principles in the Light Division ; nonetheless , each recruit takes a pride in his appearance and is at pains to ensure that his turnout is of the highest standard . |
| 12 | We need to ensure that the management of community care is improved to meet the needs of those who are discharged from hospitals and , more particularly , of those who have never been long-stay patients in our hospitals for the mentally ill . |
| 13 | SHe 'd been entertaining Nathan in Tammuz 's office , messing with the computer . |
| 14 | Since its introduction in 1987 , Honda 's CBR6OOF has been top seller in this class despite competition from the other Japanese manufacturers Kawasaki , Suzuki and Yamaha . |
| 15 | The plaintiff might be an author who is prevented by his injuries from writing or completing a book or there might have been high unemployment in the area and large redundancies in the company that had employed the plaintiff . |
| 16 | For more than a decade there had been detailed debate in the industry on the best form of securing greater coordination of distribution . |
| 17 | Gianni De Michelis ( Socialist Unity Party , usually referred to as the PSI ) , who had been Foreign Minister in the previous government , was told on July 14 that he was under investigation for corruption . |
| 18 | Even after Ceauşescu 's death , Lord Callaghan , who had been Foreign Secretary in 1975 , recalled generously that Ceauşescu was ‘ always a rogue elephant in the Warsaw Pact ’ and had ‘ helped us ’ in drafting the Helsinki accords and as a go-between with Moscow . |
| 19 | Both these examples raise issues other than the question of whether support is one-way , but they do indicate that there certainly have been historical circumstances in which people have felt that the requirement to provide financial support to parents , in circumstances where they were apparently unable to reciprocate , went well beyond their normal expectations of support between kin . |
| 20 | She enables women today to see that women have been historical agents in the past , and to envisage the past from the perspective of women . |
| 21 | Of course , there have been historical fluctuations in revolutionary activity , as well as considerable variations between societies — with revolutionary parties having had a greater influence in France and Italy than in the rest of Western and Northern Europe or in North America — but the predominant style of working-class politics everywhere has been reformist , directed toward a gradual attrition of the unregulated market economy . |
| 22 | ‘ But for their alertness there would have been untold carnage in the town , ’ he said . |
| 23 | And in 1992 , having been mere space-fillers in the music press , the Levellers had a top 20 single . |
| 24 | But there had been unsuccessful sides in the past that had been packed with outstanding individuals who had not coalesced , or been moulded , into a good team . |
| 25 | Deirdre joined the literature committee in 1985 after the closure of Craiglockhart College of Education , where she had been principal lecturer in English , and so began a second career . |
| 26 | Eels , speared through their gills on an eel stick , had long been standard rent in the Fens and Somerset Levels . |
| 27 | And there have been similar demonstrations in Gloucestershire which has a similar vote next week . |
| 28 | There have been similar incidents in Northumbria . |
| 29 | Unless the starfish really is being enhanced by some change of circumstance ( for example by fertilizer from the mainland ) then it seems inconceivable that there have not been similar outbreaks in the past . |
| 30 | There have been similar events in the Middle East as well . |