Example sentences of "been [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was also beginning to see why Edward had been loth to speak openly about his work . |
| 2 | It has been iced to resemble the cover of the guide . |
| 3 | Further , no married woman could make a will without her husband 's consent , nor ( with trifling exceptions ) make any contract , except as agent either for her husband or for some other person : it would have been absurd to let her contract when she had no free property out of which she could pay . |
| 4 | I think it would have been absurd to have imposed upon police authorities a uniform number |
| 5 | I could name at least three of my friends who would have been prompt to offer this undeniably attractive young man a doss down on the sofa , and one of them who would have already been thinking of taking him upstairs for the night … |
| 6 | The seat has been Labour held since before 1945 . |
| 7 | Mr Rumback had been asleep slumped over his desk and just as Endill removed the last screw he awoke with a start . |
| 8 | Those poor Dutch people , it must have been awful having the Germans right on their border and no English Channel to keep them out . |
| 9 | It has , however , been pleasant to do business with you and I am sure you and your little family will be extremely happy at ‘ La Felicit à'; . |
| 10 | It had been pleasant to see her flitting about Moorlake , absorbed in her enterprise . |
| 11 | It had not been pleasant to leave the Mallorys under a cloud . |
| 12 | At this point , it would have been pleasant to record a series of strategies by which they had been facilitated . |
| 13 | Kim pulled T'ai Cho down , then scrambled back , feeling the convected warmth of the gun 's discharge in the air , accompanied by a sharp , sweet scent that might almost have been pleasant had it not signalled something so deadly . |
| 14 | Betty would have been upset to know that they had been talking of the devil . |
| 15 | When she and the twins had visited the hospital this morning Laura had been upset to note that Liz had seemed to be deeply depressed . |
| 16 | In other pre-modern cultures , however , it has not been usual to give all this information . |
| 17 | Although Blake may have given the impression to the prison authorities that he had accepted his sentence and settled down to serve it ( it would surely have been odd had he done otherwise ) , in reality neither he nor the KGB had any intention of him remaining in prison a day longer than necessary . |
| 18 | Well do do n't look as if they 've been used does it ? |
| 19 | Sandtoft 's natural red Old English clay pantiles have been used to roof new offices of BP Exploration near Newark in Nottinghamshire . |
| 20 | Nearly all the readings of the printed version are either musically superior to those in the theatre score , or result from octave transposition — necessary at one point to avoid an unplayable bottom B' B♭ occasioned by downward transposition from G to F. ( A change would have been unnecessary had the transposition gone the other way . ) |
| 21 | A spokesman for the Durham Anti-Apartheid Group said the Labour Group in Darlington Borough Council had been right to refuse to see the delegation . |
| 22 | They probably seemed as ridiculous to the boy as they 'd seemed boring to Nevil , who had been right to say they had harmed him with their indulgence and from whom they would willingly now have asked forgiveness . |
| 23 | She had been right to say it was people like that who do terrible things , and if Timothy Gedge did do terrible things it would not be because he was different and exotic but because he was possessed of an urge to become so . |
| 24 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that , if there had been a contravention of section 3 of the Act of 1986 , an order could be made under section 6(2) against both the contravener and persons knowingly concerned in that contravention provided that such order was intended to restore all the parties to specific transactions to their respective former positions and that the steps ordered to be taken were reasonably capable of achieving that object ; that , on a contravention of one of the provisions of section 6(1) ( a ) , an order could be made under the subsection against persons knowingly concerned in the contravention provided that the steps ordered to be taken were reasonably capable of remedying the contravention ; that such restitutionary orders could be made notwithstanding that the persons knowingly concerned had received nothing under the impugned transactions , there being no distinction between the type of order that could be made under the subsections against a contravener and a person knowingly concerned ; and that , accordingly , the judge had been right to dismiss the solicitors ' summons to strike out the S.I.B . 's claims against them ( post , pp. 907C–D , F–G , G–H , 909D–G , G–H , 910D , 913D–G , H — 914A , 915C–D ) . |
| 25 | He had hit Milward pretty hard , thought Henry , but he had been right to do so . |
| 26 | Had she been right to do so ? |
| 27 | Pilcher 's first trials with the Bat in the summer of 1895 showed that Lilienthal had been right to insist that a horizontal tail surface was essential , and after modifications Pilcher succeeded in making a number of short downhill glides , but the dihedral angle was still too great for lateral stability . |
| 28 | The justices in the court below had been right to conclude that the police had ‘ reasonable grounds for believing that , if they were not present at the meeting , there would be seditious speeches and other incitements to violence and breaches of the peace would occur ’ . |
| 29 | Oh , she had been right to turn down his offer — the affair would never have lasted the year ! |
| 30 | Maybe , after all , Cadfael had been right to speak so simply of ‘ poor Columbanus ’ . |