Example sentences of "[been] [adv] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His granddaughter , Jessie Mould , has been keenly interested in the movements of her family over the generations and after she had discovered that her seventeenth-century ancestors were mentioned in Richard Gough 's History of Myddle ( 1701–2 ) she published More Tales of Banks Peninsula and wrote in her foreword : |
| 2 | In fact the use of the phrase " verbal directive " is a further indication that this signal was not drafted by someone who had been intimately involved In the events of the previous ten days , as Brig Low had been . |
| 3 | But they have been dead scared of the Russians for 40 years . |
| 4 | He had not been altogether honest with the parents regarding the ‘ job situation ’ and considered it prudent to steal silently away to his room , rather than construct explanations for his early return from ‘ work ’ . |
| 5 | I have just completed a round of visits to most of the fund raising regions in England and Wales and I 've been most impressed by the preparations that are underway to prepare for our seventy fifth birthday . |
| 6 | We have found in the past that visitors have been most appreciative of the efforts made to inform them and have also been most complimentary on what they have seen . |
| 7 | The first appearance at away matches of massive groups of skinheads , all uniformly dressed and intent on smashing their opponents into the ground , must have been rather unnerving for the managers of those clubs who were hoping to turn football watching into a family outing . |
| 8 | In the fourteenth century even judges had been remarkably ignorant of the statutes which they had to enforce ; lawcourts sometimes did not even possess copies of particular acts ; and the copies which did exist were marred by gross errors . |
| 9 | ‘ Now , as a biologist , I have long been somewhat suspicious of the assumptions about human behavior and motivation made by psychologists and sociologists . |
| 10 | The members had a warmth of approach and a human interest in Black and his family which had been less evident among the politicians . |
| 11 | But I had been sufficiently intrigued by the stories I had heard of William to want to find out . |
| 12 | The Metropolitan Borough of Wigan has been sufficiently impressed with the results so far to finance the printing of enough copies for the first year pupils of three comprehensive schools beginning in September 1985 . |
| 13 | It has not been sufficiently sensitive to the issues which divide and potentially destroy us , or to the need to renounce the legacy of patriarchal relations in our own behaviour . |
| 14 | Service has been all on-farm in the workshops of owners JAPE Wright , Brettenham , Thetford . |
| 15 | Imagine what the result would have been in Salomon 's case if the company created was one of unlimited liability : all the members would have been personally liable for the debts owned by the company to the creditors . |
| 16 | If physics is to be taken as the acme of scientific knowledge , then it would make sense to try to emulate the methods that physics uses to gain its knowledge , and where else could one go for this by way of a shortcut but to philosophy , the discipline that has been endlessly preoccupied with the foundations of human knowledge . |
| 17 | The reluctance to write about sex is curious in a writer who has been gleefully unreticent on the demands and delinquencies attending other forms of physical exertion . |
| 18 | He had written on behalf of a friend ‘ whose great curiosity in fruit has been terribly disappointed by the nurserymen ’ . |
| 19 | In practice , it has been extremely rare for the Lords to use even such powers as remain to it to reject Commons Bills . |
| 20 | The management have been extremely worried about the firms cash position over the last few years . |
| 21 | ( Sir John May had been highly critical of the scientists , concluding that they had concealed evidence and misled the trial . ) |
| 22 | This approach has been highly successful with the thalassaemias , a group of disorders which bear many similarities to sickle cell disease . |
| 23 | ‘ Resolved that in consequence of the report of the Committee last mentioned and the charges now exhibited against the said Secretary — this meeting is of the opinion that his conduct has been highly injurious to the Interests of the College and that he be immediately dismissed . ’ |
| 24 | AIDS must have been exceedingly rare before the mid-1970s anywhere in the world . |
| 25 | Not since childhood had he been so alive to the changes of texture in the air , the shifts of mood in the sky , the beat of the blood in his own body . |
| 26 | Then she turned to speak to all the eagles there , for most were listening in silence to her except those , and there were some , who had been so long in the Cages or so affected by them that they showed interest in nothing but food , their spirit killed by imprisonment . |
| 27 | But the number of people that I 've had in erm both customers and visitors like yourselves , that have been so impressed by the standards of housekeeping and cleanliness and tidiness , for an engineering facility . |
| 28 | The Ministry of Education , now headed by rightwingers in the coalition , has indicated its intention to concentrate on formal sector education , marginalizing the literacy and popular adult education work which had been so important under the Sandinistas by starving them of funds . |
| 29 | And I think it is , we would all agree , that it is essential that an agreement which is acceptable to all sides is reached , and I 'm sure that it 's going to be because let us not forget that we 're not in business to remain in perpetual opposition if we are to achieve proper rights for employees , which have been so reduced by the Conservatives if we are to save the welfare state , which is now so under threat if we are to obtain decent health and education services , which are also under threat if we are to create a strong economy and a strong recovery which provides the jobs which we so desperately need then we must win power ! |
| 30 | Human rights activists and journalists can not fathom why the Paris government has been so lukewarm to the Bourequats . |