Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] been [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This new interest has not relied simply on a moral redefinition of ‘ crime ’ to draw attention to analogous , but uncriminalised , activities of the ruling class ( although that has been part of it ) . |
| 2 | Can you recommend a strong holding , affordable styling mousse that gives control and body to difficult hair but that has been allergy tested . |
| 3 | You feel him imagining himself as the last rock of culture and civilization being swept over by a wave of barbarism and Jews ( communism and commercialism ) , the saviour of more than the Constitution , the saviour of all that has been culture , the snob of the West . |
| 4 | A major contributory factor to this has been excise duty discrimination against spirits , particularly that in favour of imported wine . |
| 5 | For the United States , this has been part of its purpose as an aspect of counter-insurgency policy : to prevent the mass of the population defecting to the FMLN and its allies , and to deal with the social and economic costs of about half a million displaced persons . |
| 6 | The ‘ Adults Learning ’ session with me in March will help marry some of the theory of adult education to the Medau teaching method — this has been part of the Teacher Training Course for some time , and we thought that some of you who have been qualified a little longer might like some theory to back up your practical experience . |
| 7 | ‘ I am sure the people who have been treated would say this has been money well spent , ’ she said . |
| 8 | This has been dogma in the Labour Party ( and probably the other major parties ) for some 30 years . |
| 9 | Elizabeth Goldby since 1985 has been Principal of Eare Shilton Community College , a 14–19 Upper School and Community College serving a semi-rural area of South West Leicestershire . |
| 10 | Most marked has been Sun 's reluctance to concede any ground to OSF 's Motif interface , even though many Sun users clearly prefer that graphical environment over Sun 's Open Look GUI . |
| 11 | BK told us this had been base camp for early attempts on Kanchenjunga from the south . |
| 12 | In the Reformation this had been North-South between Protestants and Catholics . |
| 13 | She ached with sympathy for him , and if this had been Christmas , or any time in those months when she had felt they were friends , she would have pulled him into her arms and soothed him with soft hands and whispered words . |
| 14 | Traditionally the British had been Champagne 's most lucrative customers — after the drink had been popularised in society by the Marlboroughs and the Prince of Wales in the last half of the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | Bécherel had been under the command of one of his retainers , and another had been Constable of Saint-Sauveur , though in all probability he had not been involved in its surrender . |
| 16 | and what our boys … our volunteers … the boys all say they are looking forward to it some have been canoeing and they expect it to be fast and bumpy … |
| 17 | Carole Hillenbrand since 1979 has been lecturer in Arabic at the University of Edinburgh , where here husband Robert , is Professor of Islamic Art . |
| 18 | I 'm just delighted to have been part of it all . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm looking forward to the final official opening of the Tunnel , and I 'm delighted to have been part of the support structure that has made it possible . |
| 20 | Musically the interim was not unproductive : he compiled several keyboard concertos from other composers ' music collected in Paris and London , and made his first foray into vocal music , with a couple of Italian arias ; he composed a comedy in Latin for Salzburg university entitled Apollo et Hyacinthus , a piece of Passion music , and the first act of a sacred Singspiel , Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots , written in collaboration with Joseph Haydn 's younger brother Michael ( who since 1762 had been music director to the Archbishop of Salzburg ) and another local composer , Jacob Adlgasser . |
| 21 | The sons of George III had been prodigal breeders , had n't they ? |
| 22 | With boundaries go hedges , and some of those still remaining have been part of the farmed landscape since Saxon , or possibly even earlier , times . |
| 23 | What they confirm is the complex notion of uneven development outlined in the last section , and how the changing geography of the UK since the mid-'60s has been part and parcel of its wider transformation . |
| 24 | She has always been an internationalist — and since 1975 has been membership secretary of the Chile Solidarity Campaign . |
| 25 | The only addition to the crowded airwaves in the past year to have significantly demonstrated all three has been Radio 4 News FM . |
| 26 | If they have been taking a prescribed drug this is likely to have been methadone , and if the daily dose can be established this can be prescribed . |
| 27 | They were more likely to have been bell towers , although Neeld was very much of the feudal landlord ilk and everything was designed to give an impression of vast wealth and efficiency , ’ he says . |
| 28 | The Romanian Parliament had issued objections on Nov. 28 to the referendum 's being held in those Ukrainian territories which between 1918 and 1940 had been part of Romania , namely Northern Bukovina and Bessarabia , but which had been ceded to Ukraine under the terms of the Molotov-Ribentropp pact . |
| 29 | So on the FGM all three have been countersunk by an extra few mm , meaning that the pickup mounting rings sit flush with the body , which does n't look half as odd as you 'd imagine . |
| 30 | These have been colour coded as above to help you identify when they are available . |