Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] [adv] [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The activities of both large transnational and national companies as well as small-farmer settlers on the northern frontiers of settlement have often been disastrous to the long-term productivity of the land , but have gone on unchecked ( Barbira-Scazzocchio 1980 ) . |
| 2 | The tragedies of miscegenation have never been simple — ever since Othello did what he had to do to Desdemona . |
| 3 | Humanist transgression in the name of authenticity has never been able to comprehend this other kind of transgression , that performed in the name of inversion , perversion , and reinscription . |
| 4 | The territories that they inhabit are for the most part inhospitable , with some of the world 's highest mountains and large expanses of desert ; and levels of literacy have traditionally been low ( some of the nationalities concerned had no written language at all at the time of their incorporation into the USSR ) . |
| 5 | Franco had never seen him so drunk and , although Maidstone 's intake of alcohol had often been greater on past occasions , this time he just went to pieces . |
| 6 | ‘ A small minority of Members of Parliament after these weeks and months of debate have still been unable to tell us what they want , where they want to lead this country and who is going with them . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I could see how the notion of raiding charnel houses for the secrets of life had always been present in Shelley 's thought ; but these horrid machine speculations were new . |
| 8 | Philosophers of science have latterly been busy explaining that science is about correlating phenomena or acquiring the power to manipulate them . |
| 9 | Incumbent members of Congress have always been difficult to defeat and too much may have been made of the advantages of incumbency in the modern legislature . |
| 10 | This type of preoccupation has also been prevalent until recent years . |
| 11 | With Rudi Bryson challenging Richard Snell for the dubious honour of joining Hugh Page , Fanie de Villiers , Steve Jefferies and Corrie van Zyl among the ranks of ineffectual South African pace imports , Joey Benjamin 's recent burst of form has also been instrumental in Surrey 's surge from the Britannic basement . |
| 12 | As I was saying , the position of matron has now been vacant since term began , and in spite of valiant efforts to fill the position — ’ |
| 13 | One of the problems in the US is that the restrictions on children and teenagers seeing certain types of film have traditionally been looser than in Britain . |
| 14 | With these preoccupations , the Left 's vision of socialism has often been negative in form : socialism is a society without the private ownership of the means of production because private ownership is a key feature of capitalism ; socialism is a society free of private profit , because of the centrality of private profit to a capitalist way of motivating economic life ; socialism is a society free of inequalities of class , because capitalism systematically produces just those inequalities ; socialism is a society without politics of a class kind because this is the normal form taken by politics under capitalism . |
| 15 | The main symbol of death had long been that of the old man holding a familiar rural implement , the scythe , implying that man would be cut down when he was ripe for it . |
| 16 | He is perfectly right that in recent years we have been eating into that principle , but if we continue to do so , the principle will go , and that is the civil liberties issue which the system of justice has always been anxious to maintain . |
| 17 | The Pope , a conservative whose grip on the reins of power has never been firmer , is setting off on a tour of the Far East on Friday . |