Example sentences of "been [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sometimes they have been over- social , or captain of school — or Dr Faustus in the school play . |
| 2 | It is important to note that most of the authorities which have experienced the more punitive forms of grant limitation and all but one of the authorities which have experienced rate capping have been Labour controlled . |
| 3 | The characteristic of all those areas is that for a long time they have been Labour controlled , although Conservatives have been in control in Brent for the past year and the Liberal Democrats have recently been in control in Tower Hamlets . |
| 4 | ‘ Have I been asleep long ? ’ |
| 5 | In January 1946 bread rationing had recently been re- introduced , the franc had just been devalued , inflation was galloping , and Indochina was in crisis . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ] . |
| 8 | It can certainly be passed on by kissing , and there has recently been strong epidemiological evidence that CMV infection can be sexually transmitted . |
| 9 | At the same time there has been extensive sliding , especially at the front of the nappes . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Miss but by god she had a good aim , she might have been bloody dotty |
| 13 | It must have been bloody huge |
| 14 | Must have been bloody moulded and everything . |
| 15 | Since time immemorial ‘ Staggy ’ had been drip-feeding ambitious junior researchers with toxin , preparing them for the stronger poisons which lay ahead . |
| 16 | The oil minister , Gholamreza Aghazadeh , had declared the previous day that ‘ the US and its allies have been guiding certain oil producers in the ‘ conspiracy ’ to bring prices down' . |
| 17 | Paste waxes are best when applied to bare wood , while liquid waxes are suitable for use on furniture that has been French polished or lacquered . |
| 18 | There has also been direct military involvement , in Northern Ireland since 1969 and in London in 1980 with the spectacular lifting of the siege at the Iranian embassy by the Special Air Service ( SAS ) . |
| 19 | Outside the EC there has been direct scientific collaboration with scientists in California , in Memphis , Tennessee , and in Moscow . |
| 20 | Where the nature of development has been capital intensive in LDCs , the proletariat will be small . |
| 21 | NOT even the most imaginative of San Diego Chargers fans would have been entertaining Super Bowl thoughts after the team lost their first four games . |
| 22 | But the main focus has been networked distributed computing , which does n't provide the same levels of performance or fault-resilience — and it 's in this aspect that the Sequent customers are most interested . |
| 23 | From 1993 , however , the departments will receive their money directly , after the fund has been top sliced to pay for the hospitals ' infrastructure costs . |
| 24 | Even when she had been widowed young , she had never wanted another man . |
| 25 | Claire has been Scottish Open champion three times , National Champion seven times and is the only person to have won the under 16s and under 19s in the same season . |
| 26 | Our Arthur 's been clear clear clear . |
| 27 | The survey reveals that 7 per cent of ancient woodland has been clear felled , mostly for agriculture , and that a further 38 per cent has been replanted with conifers . |
| 28 | Avoiding the copyright-protected names of bears that have been British National newspaper features for decades was quite easy for innovative owners of the new skydiving brood . |
| 29 | ALAN Milburn , Darlington 's NHS conscious Labour candidate , has been proper poorly . |
| 30 | Have you been proper poorly ? |