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 | she 's not going to this year , she 's erm , in Ruxley there , there was a little pot of seed that had been sowed and they were ready for pricking out , and er one little pot I think was ninety eight P , but there must of been fifty plants in there easily |
| 4 | For goods , there had been tariff-free trade in manufactures since 1972 , but non-tariff barriers would now be removed . |
| 5 | Men had only ever been pleasant pastimes in her full and varied life . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Pablo Merry del Val , whose father had been Spanish Ambassador in London , conducted briefings for the correspondents and censored their dispatches . |
| 9 | There have been total bans in many other countries dating from more than five years ago . |
| 10 | There had been 169 executions in US states since the death penalty was restored by the Supreme Court in 1976 , most of them in conservative Southern states , but on April 6 Arizona had carried out its first execution for 29 years , while in March the first execution in Delaware since 1946 had been implemented . |
| 11 | She had helped to pick up all the things spilt from the bag , but there had been that look in her eye just before — a familiar look , contempt , indifferently hidden . |
| 12 | It may have been that while in Japan he found the taste of humble pie just a little too much to stomach . |
| 13 | With this in mind , the company has been investing money in planting new crops before the threat of a ban becomes reality . |
| 14 | We had been eight weeks in basic training and even in the most placid of us the qualities of self preservation and selfishness were coming to the surface . |
| 15 | There has been little development in style since the 1920s though the range of materials has increased . |
| 16 | In previous elections there has been little change in the parties ' support between the final Sunday of the campaign and polling day . |
| 17 | But most of the changes that did occur took place over 1950–70 ; since the latter year there appears to have been little change in the relative positions of the different republics and provinces in social product per head . |
| 18 | He had been discharged but a year later there had been little change in his weight . |
| 19 | There has been little change in the combined market share of the six national brewers owning more than 2,000 pubs since February 1989 . |
| 20 | According to the Office of Population , Censuses and Surveys , there has been little change in breast-feeding patterns in the last decade . |
| 21 | Unlike the issue of sterling there would seem to have been little choice in the line of action to be followed . |
| 22 | I am not spreading or sagging , the glow of an early sun tan had probably removed a year or two and I 've discovered that lipstick does wonders , but there could have been little doubt in his mind that I was closer in age to his mother than to him . |
| 23 | Indeed there seems to have been little diminution in this publishing bonanza up to the present time . |
| 24 | In August 1989 William J. Bennett , the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy , had called for the government " aggressively [ to ] implement " random testing of federal workers , but by January 1990 there had been little increase in the numbers tested due to litigation . |
| 25 | There has , therefore , been little chance in the past for a political growth of class consciousness among subordinate groups . |
| 26 | However , although the Education Act 1981 shifted the emphasis in education from handicap to special educational need , based on assessment of curriculum requirement rather than on the child 's disability , there has been little progress in the integration of the handicapped in education . |
| 27 | There has been little progress in reaching agreement on harmonising excise duties , and serious negotiations on this issue are not due to commence until early in 1992 . |
| 28 | Nevertheless there has been little interest in exploring for Zechstein gas in the North Sea and the test results so far encountered have been very discouraging . |
| 29 | There had been little luxury in their lives in contrast to Spiro 's second family , who enjoyed the best of everything . |
| 30 | There has been little research in most of the United Kingdom into the relative effects of social class on achievement under the tripartite and comprehensive systems . |