Example sentences of "have been [adj] [prep] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , in the context of 19 barren years , the season just ended has been one of note in these parts . |
| 2 | Boyd , a 6ft 5in American in his first English season , has been top-scorer for Brixton in every game — although on Saturday he shared the honour with his team-mate , Jody John , each scoring 33 points . |
| 3 | In discussing the extent to which sentencing discretion in England and Wales has been subject to control in the past , or is likely to be in the future , we will adopt the threefold classification elaborated by K.C. Davis ( 1969 ) : viz. confining discretion ( or restricting the scope of discretionary power that is available ) ; structuring discretion ( or regulating its exercise in advance ) ; and checking discretion ( or reviewing the way it has been exercised in the past ) . |
| 4 | His motive for doing so is that he thinks that English verse has been ill-served by prosodists in the past . |
| 5 | Dyspareunia has been troublesome after operation in eight of 97 women ( 8% ) . |
| 6 | The racial card has been used to effect in previous New York elections , but in Mr Giuliani 's case he is being criticised as an opportunist for his attacks on the city 's first black Democratic nominee . |
| 7 | The logic instantiated in this research design has been used to effect in some branches of psychology and medicine as a method for testing causal explanations . |
| 8 | There seems to be some justification for this since most of the contemporary debate has been concerned with accountability in a ‘ strict ’ or contractual sense . |
| 9 | It always has been desirable for governors in special schools to have some knowledge of the curriculum in mainstream schools and for this awareness to be reciprocated . |
| 10 | The British policy stance since 1962 has been sceptical of space in general , and of its economic viability in particular . |
| 11 | HIV may have been present for centuries in a relatively harmless form and only recently evolved into a more damaging one . |
| 12 | At Forncett , the average rent per acre of lands leased was markedly lower in the fifteenth century than in the late fourteenth , although one can not tell from the published figures how far the fluctuations may have been due to variations in the quality of the particular pieces of land being leased at the time rather than to a general decline in rent levels . |
| 13 | Gordon suggested that the failure to find a left ear superiority for melodies , in contrast to Kimura 's ( 1964 ) results , might have been due to differences in the rhythm and/or pitch of the stimuli employed by himself and by Kimura . |
| 14 | We had wanted two contrasting areas ( more than two would have been preferable of course in terms of the extent to which one could generalise from our findings but the projects would become expensive and it was acknowledged that we could not include more than two ) , and Ipswich and Newham were felt to fill this requirement . |
| 15 | There were fewer than seven under-strength German divisions in Yugoslavia , none of them would have been suitable for service in France or North Italy , as has been maintained . |
| 16 | Although Sontag ( 1979 ) may have been guilty of exaggeration in her claim that Benjamin 's most important influence came from surrealism , it is certain that he was enthusiastic about surrealism both as a movement in the arts and as often explicit politics . |
| 17 | However he later went on , at p. 631 , to countenance the possibility that the defendant might have been guilty of extortion in insisting upon payment ‘ even without that species of duress , viz. the refusal to allow the party to exercise his legal right , but colore officii . ’ |
| 18 | If it had n't been for the capricious whim of her younger sister she would have been hard at work in London at this moment . |
| 19 | Doris is no stranger to the UK , having been resident at Duxford in the mid-1970s during its flight from India to the USA . |
| 20 | The same tenure seems to have been usual for officials in most lawcourts — except for the judges — and in such administrative departments as the Signet Office and the Privy Seal Office . |
| 21 | Our adjustment for these confounding factors meant that any remaining differences in perinatal mortality rates were more likely to have been due to differences in the care received by patients . |
| 22 | One variant known to have been common in Ayrshire in the 18th century was : — |
| 23 | ‘ There were quite a few interesting pieces , notably miniatures from children 's sets , which seem to have been popular in Holland in those earlier periods . ’ |
| 24 | Walter had been friendly with David in England and when he came to Scotland , David granted him lands in Ayrshire , Renfrewshire , Argyll , Bute and the Lothians . |
| 25 | The first major film to deal with Vietnam was John Wayne 's The Green Berets ( 1968 ) about the US Army Special Forces units , which had been present in Vietnam in an advisory capacity since 1957 . |
| 26 | Nicos Sampson , leader of the short-lived right-wing regime of 1974 , was conditionally released from imprisonment in Cyprus on April 28 ; he had been due for release in March 1994 [ see also p. 38450 ] . |
| 27 | The corporation will pay the estimated £250,000 costs of the action , which had been due for trial in January . |
| 28 | Decorative vaulting had been used to effect in England , but in Parler 's imaginative hands , first the crazy vault and then the net vault , reached their full potential . |
| 29 | Michael Walsh had taught in the school for six years , and had been involved in meetings in the Humanities department when the idea was discussed : |
| 30 | If the judge awarded damages to the petitioner on the grounds that there was no compromise or that the compromise had been cancelled and on the grounds that the respondents had been guilty of misconduct in the Clearwater transaction , then the respondents could have appealed to the Court of Appeal and either party , losing before the Court of Appeal , could have appealed to the Privy Council as of right and on that appeal all three issues , the compromise issue , the cancellation issue and the misconduct issue could have been argued . |