Example sentences of "been [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a tenable hypothesis that Bayezid II did indeed set a pattern and that many of the later foundations involving a joint muderris/muftilik were made simply in imitation of his precedent , though their effect might have been to create an official muftilik where none had existed before or to upgrade an existing muftilik ( which latter may well have been Bayezid II's intention in Amasya and Istanbul ) . |
| 2 | However , the patterns of species diversity do not coincide with those of endemism and one of the present ‘ refugia ’ seems to have been underwater 5000 BP and its endemism must have arisen subsequently . |
| 3 | out , he says to me you 'll kill yourself , you always want to do something , but to be honest it 's worse for me to sit there and watch that , it 's more tiring because by the end of the night I 'm not tired or I 've been asleep all evening I , I 'm better to go out , I know it sounds awful but I do n't like being trapped , I do n't like being in because somebody seems to think I should be in |
| 4 | Been dry all day . |
| 5 | The bill was then sent to the House of Councillors — the Upper House — where , since the election of July 1989 , the LDP had been largest single party but had lacked an overall majority . |
| 6 | Middlesbrough Council spokesman Mike Clark said the £15,000 available for grants had been over-subscribed four times . |
| 7 | His work rate has been prodigious all season , and although he may not have the quickest service around , he must rate currently as the world 's no 1 scrum-half . |
| 8 | ‘ The schoolmaster looked out of the window across the square to the castle where he announced to the class that the flag was flying at half-mast , so he popped out to find out why , thinking it might have been dear old Queen Mary . |
| 9 | What had not been right that day ? |
| 10 | I think prob problems of identification have n't really been right this time and we made a point a clear point this time with a note to people , if they were n't sure , to make comments on the books . |
| 11 | I 've not been right this season . |
| 12 | She had been strange that morning , even before the row over her car , and dressed strangely . |
| 13 | There had been strong anti-JNA feeling in Slovenia since the notorious 1988 trial of journalists and a warrant officer accused of illegally disclosing secret plans for a military clampdown against Slovene liberals [ see pp. 36374 ; 36663 ] . |
| 14 | It can certainly be passed on by kissing , and there has recently been strong epidemiological evidence that CMV infection can be sexually transmitted . |
| 15 | Salvador Nava , 77 , an independent who had been the opposition coalition candidate in the gubernatorial election , was in the 12th day of a protest march from San Luis Potosí to Mexico City to expose what he said had been extensive electoral fraud . |
| 16 | There has been extensive theoretical discussion about how this affects the Kolmogorov result , suggesting that with n a little larger than 5/3 but not exactly known . |
| 17 | The traditional attitude of government has been that official information should remain secret unless the government chooses to make it available . |
| 18 | A shiver ran through Theda 's body — the frame that was near a shadow of itself , just as it had been that long-gone day in March . |
| 19 | Lord Carrington 's view has been that premature recognition would be a mistake , and Mr. Cyrus Vance — the Secretary-General 's representative — has made the same point . |
| 20 | The result has been that recent chancellors have been able to give free rein to their tax-reforming ambitions . |
| 21 | The conventional view has been that political strife was so intense between 1689 and 1715 because party divisions cut deep into society ; all elements of the population , from the gentry , through to the merchants , professionals , artisanal and trading classes , the small farmers , right down to the " mob " , were caught up in the rage of party . |
| 22 | The request may well have been refused had it not been that western doctors were keen to learn Chinese methods of ‘ variolation ’ ( inoculation with smallpox virus ) and , no doubt , Erskine would advise the Czar to send a doctor to Peking for that purpose . |
| 23 | The general impression has been that major capital schemes not requiring Treasury approval have been poorly appraised . |
| 24 | The result has been that major reforms are completely avoided and every minor reform is weakened or sabotaged . |
| 25 | Dutch experience has been that close cooperation is needed between planners and all of these groups as well as others such as the police , mandating a cautious , incremental , flexible and thus costly style of planning . |
| 26 | The rule has been that young people intending to study medicine must forsake the humanities and social sciences for physics , chemistry and biology . |
| 27 | Over recent years the most popular explanation of Britain 's comparatively weak economic performance — and one which focuses mainly on the period of rapid decline since 1960 — has been that insufficient resources have been devoted to those parts of the economy which produce a ‘ marketable output ’ [ Bacon and Eltis , 1974 ; Eltis , 1979 ] . |
| 28 | But had it not been that actual set of people — Sam Phillips , the band , Elvis and The Jordanaires — the chemistry might not have been such that it worked . |
| 29 | If only it had been that nice John Smith , with his twinkling accountant 's eyes and trust-me smile . |
| 30 | In addition , there are for example licensing functions performed by the executive in respect of which the traditional view has been that procedural safeguards do not apply . |