Example sentences of "have [been] [adj] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This is a very lethal condition and has been responsible for a great many accidents and much loss of life . |
| 32 | This belt , named after Kuiper who suggested it would be left over from the formation of the planets , has been much-discussed as a possible source of short-period comets . |
| 33 | The time out lasts only until the child has stopped the undesirable behaviour and has been quiet for a short time . |
| 34 | I think he 'd been better for a long time on and off |
| 35 | But I 'd been careful for a long time before that , because I 'd sensed something . |
| 36 | ‘ She 'd been ill for a long time . |
| 37 | There was a sort of thirstiness about Julia 's immersion in the conversation , as though she 'd been parched for a long time . |
| 38 | ‘ I 'd been miserable for a long time . |
| 39 | ( 2C ) The term implied by subsection ( 2 ) above does not extend to any matter making the quality of goods unsatisfactory ( a ) which is specifically drawn to the buyer 's attention before the contract is made , ( b ) where the buyer examines the goods before the contract is made , which that examination ought to reveal , or ( c ) in the case of a contract for sale by sample , which would have been apparent on a reasonable examination of the sample . |
| 40 | He may not have been much of a fancy cook , but Kunio had a very keen brain and a highly intelligent outlook on life . |
| 41 | The massive transportation of goods by air would not have been possible without a faster method of documenting shipments . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | Occasionally , things get a little confusing — Ride and the pixies are hardly baggy faves — but the presence of the seminal ‘ Taste ’ and ‘ Velouria ’ gives the LP more variety than would have been present on a groove-only affair . |
| 44 | Occasionally , things get a little confusing — Ride and the pixies are hardly baggy faves — but the presence of the seminal ‘ Taste ’ and ‘ Velouria ’ gives the LP more variety than would have been present on a groove-only affair . |
| 45 | However con descending contemporary apologists may be to archaic conceptions of divine intervention , it is almost impossible to exaggerate the extent to which belief in such intervention once permeated European societies , creating popular images of the disruption of nature that could hardly have been congenial to a critical science of nature . |
| 46 | The modus vivendi was not signed , but it was promulgated in January 1948 in the minutes of the Combined Policy Committee so as to avoid reference to Congress or to the United Nations , which would have been necessary for a formal international agreement . |
| 47 | If they had not , they would have been vulnerable to a Conservative chancellor 's most unlikely weapon , a windfall-profits tax . |
| 48 | He was not the sort of evangelist who would have been content with a mere shallow ‘ decision for Christ ’ . |
| 49 | Bowler felt that Minton was happiest when painting and would have been content with a quiet life had he not been driven by a need for others and by the fact that he could not bear to be on his own . |
| 50 | She had hung up a Breughel pint , and the golden patterns on the wall brought it to life — the Elizabethan diamond panes casting shafts of light and designs which would have been impossible through a modern window . |
| 51 | The completeness of the Woodville collapse casts doubt on any suggestion that Edward IV had deliberately built up their power as a bulwark for his son — something which would have been tantamount to a conscious factionalization of politics . |
| 52 | The completeness of the Woodville collapse casts doubt on any suggestion that Edward IV had deliberately built up their power as a bulwark for his son — something which would have been tantamount to a conscious factionalization of politics . |
| 53 | The political ground could not have been better for a new middle party and many , including myself , thought that they could well achieve the breakthrough they sought . |
| 54 | Even the most positivist anthropologist , knowing the statistical significance of categories of population , would not have been immune from a romantic curiosity , would perhaps have spent more time visiting this wastefully subsidized relic of the past than a cool assessment of scientific value could warrant . |
| 55 | A description of the precise relations between Rome and her Italian allies ( not to speak of the relations between the city of Rome and the periphery of Roman territory proper ) would not have been inconceivable in a Hellenistic historian . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | Several years ago it would have been incomprehensible for a rational scientist or physician to conclude that myocardial ischaemia might somehow act to protect the heart from necrosis . |
| 58 | Would it have been different under a Labour government ? |
| 59 | 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 ) . |
| 60 | Their defence of duress would not have been acceptable to a Scottish court . |