Example sentences of "have been [adj] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It certainly seems likely that the interior of the Earth has been hot enough for most of any deeply buried volatiles to have found their way to the surface , particularly if convection extends throughout the mantle . |
| 2 | That he has used his linguistic skills to make such a protest , where before he has been content merely with linguistic cleverness , marks an important development in his character and it leaves the reader with a distinctly more favourable impression of him at the end of the play than at the beginning . |
| 3 | Prescriptives , an American range that has been available here for 10 years , offers a unique collection of very wearable , natural colours . |
| 4 | Help has been available here for less than a month , but already word has spread and swelled the starving population from 10,000 to 30,000 . |
| 5 | It seems as though the period of separation has been long enough for genetic differences to appear within populations but not so long that reproductive barriers have developed . |
| 6 | The other thing that 's been done , erm , and has been ongoing now for some months without too much success , but things seem to be moving a little bit , at least we 're told they are , is that I I pressed for , not really a presentation but a technical meeting , I wanted to get there there product engineers |
| 7 | Such an approach has been influential even amongst professional historians , so that Lawrence Stone , for example , hints at such a cyclical explanation in his own work on The Family , Sex and Marriage : ‘ In terms of both sexual attitudes and power relationships , one can dimly begin to discern huge , mysterious , secular swings from repression to permissiveness and back again . ’ |
| 8 | the extension of developing disciplines , as measured by the relative size of the literature , and as has been evident recently in various areas of the social sciences and in computer science ; |
| 9 | My mother has been happy there for fifteen years . |
| 10 | 1984 was notable for the extension to the rights queue caused by the British Telecom privatization so that the brief emergence of the ‘ vendor placing ’ may have been due only to exceptional circumstances . |
| 11 | While coercion may have been appropriate enough before 1945 , the plurality of power in a representative system makes it inappropriate thereafter . |
| 12 | 923 were cases in which , in effect , the same rules were applied as would have been applicable regardless of any special relationship between surety and debtor . |
| 13 | They perhaps entered by the route of Kamchatka and Alaska , where the climate , even now so much milder and more equitable than on the north-east coast of America , might have been warm enough in late Pliocene times to have allowed the migration of these animals . |
| 14 | The notion of such international co-operation would have been unthinkable even at senior investigator level ; but here the arrangements had been made and he 'd been on a plane within a matter of hours . |
| 15 | Since the intercorrelation of these two variables is only 0.251 , it appears that risk estimates may have been sensitive separately to both the feelings of danger experienced and the general amount of traffic at the junction . |
| 16 | This would have been bad enough under any circumstances but in this instance the bullet hit the base of some armour plate in the leading edge of the fin which caused it to split . |
| 17 | There was a time in the very early universe when it was so hot that the particle energies would have been high enough for these transformations to take place . |
| 18 | Steering without an effective rudder would have been difficult even with calm waters ; in the last decade the waters have been anything but calm . |
| 19 | A marriage between foreign nationals from different countries and of different religions would have been difficult enough in settled times , but it was rendered much more complicated now by the fact that whatever my family 's record might have been with regard to the Fascist party , my mother , my father and I were enemy aliens who had just lost a war . |
| 20 | Swan compiled a series of almanacs published in Cambridge from 1657 , and may have been responsible too for other titles such as those ostensibly by ‘ Swallow ’ and ‘ Dove ’ . |
| 21 | They skirted the palm-fringed swimming-pool which appeared to have been hewn out of solid coral-stone , and crossed it by means of a wooden bridge suspended above two huge boulders . |
| 22 | In whatever form they existed the documents continued to be known , for they were mentioned to Anselm by Osbern in 1093 , and examined in the royal court in 1109 in the presence of at least one bishop who had been present also in 1072 . |
| 23 | Still the evidence had been strong enough before 1848 . |
| 24 | They had been married now for seven years . |
| 25 | Forest had been comfortable enough for most of the first half . |
| 26 | Jean de Grilly 's behaviour towards the house of Béarn had been bad enough in 1284 , but in the eyes of the count the arrogant and arbitrary actions of Eustache de Beaumarchais 's lieutenant in 1292 were even worse . |
| 27 | My night had been restless too with humid city temperature . |
| 28 | Whereas his public appearances had been sporadic up to 1955 , and largely prompted by political events , the second half of the decade saw a notable increase in his activities as the opener of factories , electricity generating stations , reservoirs and housing schemes . |
| 29 | Moreover , 55 per cent of the neighbourhood had been resident there for five years or more . |
| 30 | I 've been stuck up in this place |