Example sentences of "[been] [adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | he said he 'd been through recently , oh every time I 've been through Wolverhampton that ring road 's been awful the traffic like |
| 2 | Nor would the expedition have been possible the next winter . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Still , he was young and she had been afraid the house would be full of only old people . |
| 5 | Seve 's always been convinced the Americans have got it in for him , anyway , but he 's said that about the French , the Italians , the Japanese . |
| 6 | In court he also stated he 'd been unaware the cannister , legal on the continent , was an offensive weapon in Britain . |
| 7 | When in July , for example , he was asked to testify for the London Library against a rating valuation , he was visibly nervous before giving his testimony ( it seems , according to Rupert Hart-Davis , that he had been awake the whole night before ) . |
| 8 | ‘ In theory , I suppose , the nearest piece of fruit could have been doctored , but I do n't see myself how the murderer could have been sure the victim would have picked it . ’ |
| 9 | Above all , to Tolkien 's mind , there must have been present the problem of Beowulf . |
| 10 | Sometimes , for example , a factor which is identified as the causal antecedent of an effect may be so interlinked with numerous other conditions that , while it is true that if that factor had not been present the effect would not have existed either , it is hardly illuminating . |
| 11 | Yet at a time when decisive action against the Nazis might still have been effective the Swiss Carl Burckhardt made very few decisions at all . |
| 12 | If he had been angry the previous day over the matter of the raid on the Bedfordshire farm , he was by now almost hysterical with rage . |
| 13 | But I am in no doubt that if players had not been forthcoming the next chapter in the SA book — not the SARB 's — would have been to offer money . |
| 14 | WHILE the North Wales Coast mainline has been claiming the headlines as far as steam operations have been concerned the other coastal route , the Cambrian , provided some memorable moments as well . |
| 15 | I do n't know catarrh but er I 've been thirsty the last few days |
| 16 | I 've been thirsty the past couple of days . |
| 17 | His conclusion that there was no duress where the defendant could only put pressure on the plaintiff by the institution of proceedings , to which proceedings there would have been available the defence which ultimately prevailed , was , in my view , unimpeachable since there is ample authority for the view that a mere threat of action does not per se constitute duress . |
| 18 | Even when an in-house team has been successful the changes in many local authorities have been significant , costs have been cut and management has adopted more competitive attitudes . |
| 19 | And they 've been trendy the last two or three seasons , they 've been back with the classics have n't they ? |
| 20 | He said he had been living with his parents in Fazakerley , and had been sub-letting the flat to another man . |
| 21 | For risks in Northern Ireland and certain other Rating Districts where the experience has been unfavourable the premium increase is higher than elsewhere although it will still be partially offset where the Rating Group of the insured car has been reduced . |
| 22 | Yes but surely if you 're saying in combating Chinese collaborators , settling accounts with landlords and reducing rents and interest , the people have seized the land directly from the landlords thus realizing the principle of the land to the tiller where the mass movement has been thorough the land problem is being or has basically been solved . |
| 23 | Now if the polymer had been crystallizable the curve of the specific volume against temperature would have shown a discontinuity at the melting point as in Figure 3.12 . |