Example sentences of "been [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But John-William had bought so much land at Far Flatley from Colonel Covington-Pym , a whole bank of his river and several fields beyond that there would have been ample room to build Gemma and Tristan a dear little nest . |
| 2 | At least once a fortnight there have been confusing signals coming from rugby in South Africa , in contrast to the clear-cut campaign that South African cricket conducted on their way to entry in the World Cup in New Zealand and Australia in this southern summer . |
| 3 | It is , however , a presumption that may be more easily displaced in family cases particularly those involving children where it has not in the past been usual practice to award costs against an unsuccessful party . |
| 4 | ( In Aeschylean tragedy ) the characters had been eternal types representing the universal laws implicit in myth . |
| 5 | We pass some strangely shaped mountains that must have been volcanic plugs poking up through vast panoramas . |
| 6 | They had been suffering trading reverses and were anxious to increase their status . |
| 7 | However , there have also been economic pressures to allow developments within the national parks , including mineral workings in the Yorkshire region and oil refining in Pembrokeshire . |
| 8 | ‘ Had it been normal parents sitting in court , would they have been ordered to pay £7,000 ? |
| 9 | Even in India , where Owen had served before he came to Egypt , and where in his latter years he had been seconded from his regiment to an Intelligence post on the Frontier , it had been normal practice to purchase information . |
| 10 | However , despite launching the second wave of UDCs amidst government promotional hype proclaiming LDDC and MDC a success story , there has been scant attention paid in government circles to any rigorous analysis of the London and Liverpool experience . |
| 11 | Not only has there been strong opposition to trade unionism and lack of support for union security at enterprise level by employers ( particularly those in small , paternalistic firms ) but trade unions have also not regarded the negotiation of agreements and protection of immediate job interests — certainly at plant level — as their central concern . |
| 12 | 8–12 There have been extensive improvements going on in Jura during the last two years . |
| 13 | These have been possible questions to ask for some time . |
| 14 | For quite a long time the prevailing view among economists had been that money does not affect the relative prices of commodities , but that it does determine the overall price level . |
| 15 | Until very recently the standard present-day answer to that question , at least among anthropologists , has been that man has culture and birds do not . |
| 16 | Oh aye Well I 've never been that way see . |
| 17 | Clearly Adalard 's influence was great ( Nithard was not alone in identifying Ermentrude as " Adalard 's niece " rather than as the daughter of Count Odo of Orléans , Adalard 's brother-in-law , though an obvious reason could have been that Odo had died eight years before , perhaps leaving Ermentrude in her uncle 's care ) . |
| 18 | There 's always been that instinct to pick up those who have been hurt ; at one time she wanted to be a nurse , but the thought of night shifts put her off . |
| 19 | It should have been that thing squared and now we then having worked it out that far , |
| 20 | Cotterell 's experience so far had been that RCO had virtually pre-written most of Carson 's material for him . |
| 21 | The result has been that sterling has become very expensive to borrow , but there is still far too much of it , and the supply is still increasing too fast . |
| 22 | there 's been eight miners trapped down in Yorkshire but the election |
| 23 | Brady was yesterday reluctant to say too much on the subject of his meeting with some board members , but it was obvious that the details of what ought to have been private business becoming public knowledge had disturbed the manager . |
| 24 | The report was published in July 1986 and concluded that apparently there had been little work done on the effects of skill mix on patient services and that " a higher priority should be given by management to achieving the best value for money by the adoption of methods of allocating staffing resources more closely related to the needs of patients and ward objectives . |
| 25 | But even where there may seem to have been little affection shown and where few apparent links remain , emotional ties that go back to earliest days are strong , and feelings about the death of a parent are bound to go deep . |
| 26 | While attention has been paid to the modification of adjudicative procedures to meet the requirements of a particular area , there has been little thought directed to the broader question of whether adjudication is the correct decision-making process on which to be fashioning procedures . |
| 27 | But there has been little legislation directed specifically towards women . |
| 28 | But in the midst of the holocaust wrought by long-term unemployment on the jobless , there has been little time to examine the effect of the current climate on the working population . |
| 29 | There would have been little room to work or store on the gallery , but it could have been a convenient place to display finished work for the approval of the merchants riding round the countryside in search of stock , as the main road passes nearby and upon which the main flow of riders would have travelled . |
| 30 | There has been little research to evaluate IT and IS and how they effect the top levels of organisations . |