Example sentences of "been [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rode on the Sambre 's northern bank , drawn towards the town by the sound of musketry which had been loud an hour before , but which now had faded into silence . |
| 2 | She 's not been asleep a minute all night ! |
| 3 | he said he 'd been through recently , oh every time I 've been through Wolverhampton that ring road 's been awful the traffic like |
| 4 | It must also be said of Poland that its society has been most resistant to Communist influence and , that of all East European countries , the gap between the state and its society has been greatest The LWP has not gone out of its way to act as the arbiter of events ; rather , it has had this role thrust upon it by Party factionalism and weakness . |
| 5 | When the lessons from the pilot survey have been fully learned alterations can be made where necessary , but if the work done prior to the pilot has been adequate the alterations consequent upon it should not be great . |
| 6 | Still , he was young and she had been afraid the house would be full of only old people . |
| 7 | Been elevens every time ! |
| 8 | A senior security service officer had been machine-gunned a week earlier in Fayoum town ( about 100 km from Cairo ) as local tensions that dated from the previous year had flared up . |
| 9 | Towards dawn , she said to his sleeping back that he loved his employers more than he loved her and if he had been half the man he thought himself , he would have left them rather than abandon her . |
| 10 | ‘ Ebeneezer Goode ’ would n't have been half the phenomenon it was without that promo vid . |
| 11 | It was an enormously thorough and comprehensive review of the case , running to four volumes and more than 1200 pages , yet it would have been better if it had been half the length and taken half the time . |
| 12 | I 've wanted you all the time , that 's what 's been half the trouble , thinking I was never going to have you again . " |
| 13 | Well , they moved off and then just getting back to sleep must of been half an hour after we 'd and heard this voice shout what you doing ? |
| 14 | It really was er of the sort , you know , if Cleopatra 's nose had been half an inch longer , history would have all been different , you know , that , that kind of trivia . |
| 15 | I mean they 'll just they 'll just have it sat there empty , it 's been empty a year now . |
| 16 | This popular hotel has been such a success with Club 18–30 that we 're delighted to feature it again as our Club Choice for summer ‘ 90 . |
| 17 | Even that seemingly most child-aware artist , Dick Bruna , says ( 1984 , p.43 ) , ‘ I 'm sure that if the books had n't been such a success , I would still be continuing in the same way . |
| 18 | After a while I thought that as Dateline had been such a success the first time why not have some fun and do it again ? |
| 19 | The 1951 Stratford season had been such a success , it would have been foolish to have followed it with any lesser thing . |
| 20 | Why has Futuroscope been such a success ? |
| 21 | But what happened to the crushed tomatoes which had been such a success , Were they abandoned in favour of whole canned tomatoes ? |
| 22 | It has been such a success within the company over recent months that JT Design Build are now making it available throughout the construction industry and to the industry 's clients . |
| 23 | Without your hard work , the development of the new courses could not have been such a success . |
| 24 | Dr Marshall says it 's been such a success he 'd like to see his research go up in flames again |
| 25 | Dr Marshall says it 's been such a success he 'd like to see his research go up in flames again |
| 26 | He remained in detention during the rebellion but stated in a letter published in the press that he had been responsible for it , a claim which was interpreted more as a dramatic personal gesture than a statement of fact ; earlier reports stated that the rebellion had been such a surprise to him that he had requested a pistol in order to shoot himself . |
| 27 | Not since 1949 has there been such a chance to abolish blood sports and just 13 absent MPs blew it . |
| 28 | For the control practices , with their low rate of cross boundary referrals , this may not have been such a concern . |
| 29 | ‘ By the way , ’ she began , hardly able to credit that , when earlier that morning her car had been such a concern to her , great expanses of time should now elapse without her giving it so much as a thought , ‘ could you tell me the name of the garage where my car — ’ |
| 30 | It may have been such a realisation ( along with the generally hostile reaction to the Framework document ) that encouraged the DES to be less specific in its second attempt at producing a framework for the curriculum ( almost a year after its first attempt ) . |