Example sentences of "[been] [adj] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been an unsuccessful amateur jockey some fifteen years ago and had then been assistant to a leading jump trainer in Lambourn . |
| 2 | You 've been asleep for a long time . ’ |
| 3 | His own money has been hard-earned as a shrewd farmer and dealer , with timing on his side as the property market hit a peak in the late 1980s . |
| 4 | If you have been guilty of a fundamental breach of your obligations under the contract , you will , of course , have been lawfully dismissed and therefore entitled to no compensation . |
| 5 | The IBOA is very conscious of the fact that this issue has been outstanding for a considerable length of time and it is hoped that the proposals will pave the way for a speedy resolution to the problem . |
| 6 | Some of the scenes in the film of people at play are almost comical now because of their seriousness , though harsh lights and cameras could hardly have been conducive to a relaxed atmosphere . |
| 7 | Thick weathering mantles will only form in regions of minimal local relief where rates of erosion have been low for a prolonged period . |
| 8 | The massive transportation of goods by air would not have been possible without a faster method of documenting shipments . |
| 9 | The career of Miller had been that of a classic party functionary rising to PUWP central committee secretary and politburo member , whereas Kwasniewski , who came up through the editorship of party youth wing newspapers to become Minister of Youth and Sports from 1985 , had made his name as a pragmatist and advocate of co-operation with Solidarity in the 1989 round table talks . |
| 10 | He had left her and gone to live with an upper-class woman , had soared to the opposite end of the scale from Josie , whose attraction for him had been that of a splenetic victim from the lower depths of the goyim : but Josie had refused a divorce and the ordeal had dragged on . |
| 11 | Many attempts have been made in the House to reform the private Bill procedure and many of them have collapsed because it has always been easier for a private measure to be introduced . |
| 12 | Their defence of duress would not have been acceptable to a Scottish court . |
| 13 | But I 'd been careful for a long time before that , because I 'd sensed something . |
| 14 | Robyn nodded polite approval of this abstention , while privately guessing that Rupert Sutcliffe had not been embarrassed by a large number of invitations . |
| 15 | Would it have been different under a Labour government ? |
| 16 | The thought that the world might have been different in a certain respect is taken to be the thought that there is a possible world which does differ from the actual world in that respect ( and probably others too ) . |
| 17 | At the very least , the discipline of being involved in some form of training will help counteract the feeling of lethargy that creeps over many people who have been unemployed for a long while — a characteristic which is very counterproductive in an interview . |
| 18 | To summarize : if you have been made redundant or have been unemployed for a long period : |
| 19 | If you have been made redundant or have been unemployed for a long time you have two additional problems to overcome . |
| 20 | It has been clear for a long time that where land adjoining the highway is unintentionally entered , i.e. as a result of a car accident , that the plaintiff must prove negligence ( River Wear Commissioners v Adamson ( 1877 ) 2 App Cas 743 ) . |
| 21 | From the start , their approach to the matches had been exciting with a dazzling display of flair from the batsmen . |
| 22 | The trend towards equality of attainment is especially marked in schools that have been comprehensive for a long time . |
| 23 | Circlip detachment could have been consistent with a high tension condition in the belt that , by resulting in elastic bending of the pin , caused a loading to be applied by the backplate flange to the circlip in the axial direction of the pin . |
| 24 | I have been convinced for a long time that people could not love , accept or respect me for the person I am , only for the amazing amount of exercise I can do . |
| 25 | The army action was severely criticized by Joseph Kokou Koffigoh , the transitional Prime Minister , who declared that Kpodzro 's decision was invalid since it had been made under duress and had not been subject to a regular vote in the HCR . |
| 26 | A criminal bankrupt and a person who has been subject to a previous bankruptcy can only apply for their discharge after the end of five years from the commencement of their bankruptcy ( s 280(1) ) . |
| 27 | This is an emotive case , which has been subject to a full investigation by the special investigation branch of the Royal Military Police , and disciplinary action has been taken against the soldier in relation to the allegations . |
| 28 | In other words , party leaders in the UK are selected from experienced national politicians whose competence and party loyalty have been regularly tried and tested , who have been subject to a careful process of peer review and have come to the fore not as a result of their electoral appeal , but because they have won the confidence of the people with whom they would have to work in government . |
| 29 | The report added that the Waddington screen controllers involved were ‘ not to undertake screening duties until their competence to do so had been subject to a further check ’ . |
| 30 | The latest studies of the fossil record , however , suggested that many families had been subject to a constant trend towards increasing levels of specialization . |