Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] have been [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This personal excursion has been around some favourite isolated hills — there are many others — a few which have given some of my best mountain days . |
| 32 | The worst peasant uprisings in the Civil War had been against German expeditions in search of food supplies . |
| 33 | The growth of labour-only sub-contracting has been of mutual benefit to both employers and employees . |
| 34 | The political moment — that period when moral attitudes are transformed into formally political action — can be of key importance in nuancing the regulation of sexuality , and at crucial times a moral schema has been of prime significance in political propaganda . |
| 35 | Such legislation has been through detailed preparation including the publication of draft clauses . |
| 36 | She felt cold , although the central heating had been on all morning , and took a large brown woollen shawl out of a drawer and wrapped it round her as she sat in the beanbag and listened . |
| 37 | [ For third congress in February 1986 see p. 34230 ; the second congress had been in 1980 — see p. 30817 — and the first in 1975 — see p. 27595 . |
| 38 | The average audience has been between 200,000 and 250,000 . |
| 39 | The only absolute increase has been in intermediate non-manual workers . |
| 40 | Experience gained in the course of employment as Librarian , British Geological Survey ( BGS ) , Edinburgh , suggests that such theses have been of great practical benefit to the geological community . |
| 41 | But , of the 600 men arrested after the failure of the latest rising , only six others had been in similar trouble before . |
| 42 | The Liberal Democratic Party has been through many name changes since the 1987 election . |
| 43 | The closest that the prewar colonel had come to a political affiliation had been with progressive , Christian anti-fascists . |
| 44 | His previous experience had been as assistant boss of one of the smaller London museums . |
| 45 | To date , three cases have been through this process . |
| 46 | ‘ I am thinking that maybe these gentlemen have been to one English Wine Shop , ’ said Dr Haidar , speaking in that slightly sanctimonious tone that Muslims sometimes adopt when discussing alcohol . |
| 47 | The exercise of these duties has been at all times , and remains , subject to the visitorial jurisdiction of the judges . |
| 48 | But perhaps the most crucial sign that headway was being made into new territory came when the West Somerset District Council , which included Hinkley Point , came out firmly against Hinkley C. Its influential policy committee chairman was married to a nuclear worker and its previous attitude had been at best neutral . |
| 49 | The first really large wave of Jewish immigrants had been in 1881 with the pogroms of Alexander III in Russia . |
| 50 | Attempts by " several gentlemen " to end these customs had been of little avail for a complaint of a very similar kind was still being made a century later . |
| 51 | The station , which also houses the longwave domestic service has been in continuous operation since 1925 . |
| 52 | That 's a point I was going to make , but as far as I can tell in en masse , the main , the main nominated bodies have been of political parties . |
| 53 | Considering that Walter Luff will be forever associated with the modernisation of the Blackpool tramway in the Thirties , it was surprising that his previous appointment had been as Commercial Manager of the West Riding Tramways Company , which had just abandoned its trams . |
| 54 | BY THE sound of ‘ Tantrum ’ and ‘ Intact ’ , these people have been through some murderous , futile relationships . |
| 55 | Almost all of these men had been in psychiatric hospitals at some time in their lives , especially the younger ones . |
| 56 | Mr Mark Davies , NUM branch secretary , said the trapped men had been in high spirits throughout their ordeal , singing and joking and , at times , trying to move rubble themselves . |
| 57 | The results represented a success for the Moderates and for two parties who exceeded for the first time the statutory 4 per cent threshold for parliamentary representation — the Christian Democrats ( whose only previous representation had been in 1985-88 when one of the Centre party 's seats was allocated to Christian Democrat in an electoral pact ) , and the New Democracy Party . |
| 58 | The last time I had seen a white rose had been in that filthy room in the Tower . |
| 59 | I also could point out , again , the shameful irony that the most dramatic advances for women have been almost entirely confined to the industrial world ; that the worst declines have been in poor countries among those very women whose work creates the wealth that buys us our freedom . |
| 60 | Had a case of a claim by a child for damages for pre-natal injury come before the English courts in the period from 1972 to the enactment of the Act of 1976 , and had it been as well argued as the present cases have been in this court , I have no doubt that the English court would have been referred to Watt v. Rama [ 1972 ] V.R. 353 and Duval v. Seguin , 26 D.L.R. ( 3d ) 418 and would have preferred the views there expressed to Walker v. Great Northern Railway . |