Example sentences of "been [adv] the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Socially , though , he and Karen , who taught part-time at a girls ' school in Headington , were both from a lower-middle-class , comp/tech background , and it may not have been only the fearsome price of property in the North Oxford heartlands which had put them off moving there . |
| 2 | ‘ The conduct of the workers is deplorable , ’ wrote a French mining manager in 1869 , in the process of ferociously repressing the sort of strike of which Zola 's Germinal has given us a vivid picture , ‘ but one must recognise that they have been merely the savage instruments of agitators ’ . |
| 3 | Regarded as a liberal , Bessmertnykh , 57 , had been hitherto the Soviet ambassador to the United States , and before that a First Deputy Foreign Minister . |
| 4 | It may though , have been just the right setting for those particular films . |
| 5 | The reason for the neglect of climatic consideration has been partly the relative youthfulness of the science of urban climatology , and partly the relatively weak communication links that presently exist between climatology and planning . |
| 6 | The royals have been virtually the only gossip among their delegations following first the news that Anne and Tim were to marry and then the bombshell that Diana and Charles were to separate . |
| 7 | If she was not , then she must have been almost the only member of Edinburgh political society who managed to know nothing about it — and that in itself would be a comment on her political awareness . |
| 8 | Very properly , they regarded the changes around them with interested caution , and the book leaves the reader with the impression that the recent changes have been primarily the modest addition of audio-visual materials to those items already included for enquiry and project research . |