Example sentences of "been [adj] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the nature of development has been capital intensive in LDCs , the proletariat will be small . |
| 2 | And I explained to them it 's because having been unemployed most of my professional life that I 've always been short of money and that 's what 's led me to work on very cheap materials . |
| 3 | She told my mother she had been bored silly by Mrs Monro and was tired out with making conversation . |
| 4 | The ride in the air transporter had been bumpy due to air missiles fired in their direction . |
| 5 | The conduct of an increasing number of the young would have been unthinkable 30 to 40 years ago . |
| 6 | Mind you , there wo n't be too much muttering about top-roping from other Scottish climbers given that almost every ascent of Fated Path ( on the same crag ) has been top-roped prior to leading , despite that route having fixed protection all the way up ! |
| 7 | Simon was convinced , or persuaded himself , that he 'd been ill used by Constanza , that their marriage had been a mistake , a youthful mistake , the kind of thing one did in a war . |
| 8 | Research shows quite clearly that although the two names may occasionally have been confused due to scribal error , mishearing by early recorders , or poor scholarship , they are quite distinct and separate in origin and have remained separate in use by the families bearing them . |
| 9 | Since 1975 , the index has been current weighted by expenditure in the latest available year . |
| 10 | At another NEW party , there had been present one of the journal 's current gurus , Midrinovic , probably taken up first by Orage , who collected such people ( at one time he was a disciple of Gurdjieff ) . |
| 11 | As I can remember very little about the rest of the day I presume that I must have been unconscious most of the time . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , sweet , innocent Ma absently cuts my fish fingers though I have been self sufficient in the cutting of food since before my fourth birthday . |
| 13 | Well yes you , you , you 've got two , one is you 've got erm the rural poor who will provide a labour force in the countryside for rich peasants and you 've , because you have got a labour market and because there are no limits on mobility , then presumably there will be some poor peasants who will decide no I 'll get out , I 'll industry 's going to get going , I will be able to earn more money in a town , or sons would go off and , and so , so there should be , you should provide a , have a supply of labour , whereas if you 've got everybody , if everybody had been in middle peasant status erm there would have been no incentive to do that because everybody would have been self sufficient within the countryside . |
| 14 | However , much of the work has been experimental due to technical problems in restoring paths . |
| 15 | Engineers in Germany successfully fired thrusters on Aug. 7 to boost the European Space Agency ( ESA ) US$400,000,000 Eureka research satellite to an altitude of 507 km from a dangerously low orbit of 100km where it had been stuck due to data communication problems . |
| 16 | If there had been land-hunger comparable to the pre-plague period , it is unlikely that the villages would have disappeared ( 58 , pp.160–2 , 209 ) . |
| 17 | Gallacher admitted at the enquiry that he and his team-mates had been thirsty prior to the game , and rinsed their mouths out with whisky and water . |
| 18 | It 's been hot this like summer today is n't it ? |
| 19 | The two winos had been shocked awake by the infernal music , and scurried away from the statue . |
| 20 | I 've been worried sick for such a long time now , I 'm afraid my mind is playing me tricks . |
| 21 | But h Well obviously you have been clean shaven at some stage but |
| 22 | Fishing has been patchy due to the cool temperatures but anglers expect it to get better when the winds turn south westerly . |
| 23 | Mechanization had always been difficult due to the dominance of wet-rice production and the small scale of cultivation , but from the early 1960s new forms of mechanization adapted to the conditions of Japanese agriculture were developed . |
| 24 | And ten years ago he had been hurt worst of all when the Zionist Air Force , the E-16s and the E-15s , had come to Tuwaithah out of the setting sun to put down 16 tons of explosive ordnance onto the Osirak reactor . |
| 25 | At the time , advertising was full of the best and the brightest Oxbridge type , not someone coming from Sussex who had been left-wing all of his life , like Philip . ’ |
| 26 | For the young , there must have existed an inherited inborn enjoyment of life , for it can fairly safely be assumed that the pleasure experienced by them when at play , so obvious to modern man , must have been observable all through evolution . |
| 27 | She had been aware enough of him before . |
| 28 | He could have been scared rigid for all I know . ’ |
| 29 | Some speculative builders boomed in these conditions , few having been active prior to the 1920s , though their characteristics suggest some link or other with housebuilding : |
| 30 | If another hundred of Caraher 's non-transferable votes had been transferable first to Hendron and then to Magee the latter would have been elected in place of Burns . |