Example sentences of "been [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I liked to think it was because they thought he 'd failed , that our survival in the mountains had been his humiliation , but I would have to admit this might have been mere wishful thinking . |
| 32 | The PBS , which came to power soon after its formation in 1985 , gained most of its support from the mainly Christian Kadazan ethnic group and from the Chinese ; however , the party also made some inroads into what had previously been USNO-controlled Moslem constituencies . |
| 33 | Five others had been unsuccessful Parliamentary candidates , three of them being Conservatives . |
| 34 | She told my mother she had been bored silly by Mrs Monro and was tired out with making conversation . |
| 35 | Well it was , it might , could 've been dark grey |
| 36 | Penelope Lord ( Mrs Baines ) since 1988 has been Principal Clinical Psychologist with the North Devon Health Authority , based in Barnstaple . |
| 37 | For as long as I can remember , it has been standard medical teaching that teething of babies causes no symptoms . |
| 38 | There have been distinct evolutionary changes in the focus , style and methodology of evaluation . |
| 39 | In a variation on this feat , the bull-leaper performed the ‘ Diving Leap ’ from a vantage point ; the large , stepped stone block in the north-west corner of the Bull Court at Phaistos was probably used for this purpose , and there may have been similar free-standing vaulting blocks at Knossos and Mallia . |
| 40 | India 's 100m Muslim population has reacted widespread demonstrations in support of Saddam Hussein , and there have been similar large- scale protests in Indonesia , Malaysia , and Bangladesh . |
| 41 | The ride in the air transporter had been bumpy due to air missiles fired in their direction . |
| 42 | Slavery and imperial domination have been crucial social forces in the emergence of a modern world order , characterized by the striking inequalities which provide the essential backdrop to an understanding of the post-Second World War migrations of black communities to Britain , and which continue to generate migratory pressures on peoples from the Third World . |
| 43 | And proud too , cos blimey , I been walking for ages and when I get back home she 'll think I been real clever to find my own way back , and I ai n't got a yellow card or nothing . |
| 44 | Although promotion slipped from our grasp early on , our fight for survival over the last seven months has been real nail-biting stuff . |
| 45 | Cardinal Johannes Willebrands , head of the Vatican Secretariat for Christian Unity , said : ‘ There has been real ecclesial community . |
| 46 | like years gone past it 's always been male dominated but this year , there 's actually more girls taking it up . |
| 47 | So it 's going to take a very long time , because it has been male orientated , but until we get the attitude of the work place , which is encouraging their piers to apply for jobs instead of , oh , of course , I do n't think I will apply for that job . |
| 48 | It ca n't be any coincidence that the women he has gone out with have been typical English roses with titles , and the Duchess tops the lot . |
| 49 | Thus what would once have been typical neurotic conflicts between the ego and the id are much more likely to present themselves today as delinquency and compulsive acting-out . |
| 50 | Where there has been serious political conflict , schoolgirls have often been involved in protests and boycotts . |
| 51 | There have been serious methodological limitations to much of the research implicating personality factors in anorexia nervosa . |
| 52 | If this had been ordinary civil litigation I would have agreed . |
| 53 | While his predecessors had been ordinary royal humans . |
| 54 | He had been Liberal Unionist Chief Whip , with Joseph Chamberlain at the Colonial Office , First Lord of the Admiralty , Milner 's successor in South Africa , and a ditcher over the House of Lords . |
| 55 | They have been prominent reef-building organisms too , often in association with bryozoans . |
| 56 | The veteran leaders of both of the country 's main parties , who had been personal political rivals since the 1960s , resigned their party posts during February-March . |
| 57 | Will have been future perfect . |
| 58 | In recent years , however , there has been rapid economic development in parts of the South , notably in South-East Asia , while core economies , including those of the United States and Great Britain , have suffered recession . |
| 59 | Mind you , there wo n't be too much muttering about top-roping from other Scottish climbers given that almost every ascent of Fated Path ( on the same crag ) has been top-roped prior to leading , despite that route having fixed protection all the way up ! |
| 60 | It was a zig-zag orange and blue striped towel , and it should have been dazzling white cotton , with a gold bracelet on his lean bronzed strong-muscled forearm . |