Example sentences of "that she has been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It is a great merit in Mrs Taylor that she has been content to be guided by her moral taste , which is very fine and true , without trying to form a set of principles upon it .
2 Damaris discovers that she has been guilty of intellectual sin in failing to believe , to realize imaginatively , the nature of the material she is studying .
3 Such remarks , along with the usual party-political imperatives , mean that she has been subject to reflex ridicule for being out of step .
4 Although the poem is conventional in several respects , it ends critically , not with the shepherdess cheered up by a song or by the sight of another attractive shepherd , but with Daphne recognizing that she has been gullible about her young man .
5 She gathers that she has been lucky on her journey to avoid the widespread banditry , carried out more often than not by deserters from the army .
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