Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A case for its use in people in close contact with open pulmonary tuberculosis remains — though the statistics have of necessity been suboptimal — and this is official policy in many countries , including the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | Her trips to see her mother had of necessity been brief . |
| 3 | The inherent power of the courts to review the findings of a tribunal has by way of contrast been concerned with ensuring that the decision-maker remains within the jurisdiction granted to him . |
| 4 | None is intended — none of us is perfect , and I too have of course been guilty of many an error in my time . |
| 5 | There have of course been innumerable discussions of developments within particular disciplines . |
| 6 | There have of course been many other visits which were either not documented or else which were presented in an ephemeral form . |
| 7 | There have of course been many other television programmes which have touched on the subject of mental handicap , including series such as ‘ Let's Go ’ , a weekly series for the mentally handicapped launched in 1981 , and followed by a second series in 1983 , and ‘ Accident of Birth ’ , a series mainly for parents and people working with the mentally handicapped broadcast in early 1982 . |
| 8 | The Conservative government has not of course been passive in the process of restructuring the social bases of electoral choice . |
| 9 | There have of course been those who have deplored such a connection . |
| 10 | There has of course been some criticism in the books of the decision in Stilk v. Myrick which is somewhat differently reported in the two sets of reports , but Campbell 's reports have the better reputation and what I have referred to as being the law on this point is referred to as ‘ the present ’ rule in Chitty on Contracts : see , also , Cheshire and Fifoot . |
| 11 | Their impact has of course been immense . |
| 12 | Despite boasts months ago , it has of course been unable to get volumes at 200MHz and probably wo n't until third quarter 1993 . |
| 13 | Only twice has a piece of work been unusable , in which case , he says , ‘ it 's my mistake in choosing an artist who was n't up to the commission , so I pay for it anyway and just do n't use it ’ . |
| 14 | Had the axial spin of M been slower than that of synchronous rotation then the torque would have acted to speed it up until synchronous rotation was achieved . |
| 15 | The lack of communication to others has only in part been due to our own ineptness at salesmanship ; it more likely lies in a fairly deeply embedded resistance to drama being anything other than a community art — not just a performing art , a community art . |
| 16 | They have in part been able to make flexibility work for labour . |
| 17 | Yet despite this there has mostly in practice been little depth , little more than discussion of opinions with regard to these ultimate questions — what one disillusioned teacher called " mutual exchange of ignorance " . |
| 18 | Queries from consumers have in practice been rare , and very few indeed of these ( fewer than one in one-thousand enquiries ) reveal mistakes . |
| 19 | However , had the last element in p been other than 4 , the three pairs of equations would have given three different answers . |
| 20 | But even in the case of such an Act , if there are superadded provisions which attach to non-payment consequences other than a bare liability to be sued , there can be no justification for refusing to have regard to those consequences and to consider whether the existence of the provisions creating them has placed the payer under such pressure that the payments have not in truth been voluntary . |
| 21 | People in the team have hurt one another , usually unwittingly , and have in turn been cold shouldered . |
| 22 | That was the way Adam wanted it and had in fact been vociferous on the subject , vowing that neither now nor in the future would he ever give in to those bourgeois values and customs . |
| 23 | The clear air , Constable 's unique Suffolk light , had in fact been impenetrable , a barrier that held off intruders as a sheet of glass might have . |
| 24 | Most of those involved in the formation of the National Government had in fact been prominent opponents of Lloyd George in the past . |
| 25 | The church 's attitude to Lynch stands in marked contrast to its harbouring of some Catholic priests who have in fact been guilty of child abuse . |
| 26 | It was felt at the time that the upward movement was out of line with the underlying trend and the latest figures analysed by Reward suggest it has in fact been short-lived . |
| 27 | The thought of the forthcoming windfall reminded Rev. Levitt that his last wedding had in fact been that of Mrs Cohen 's elder daughter . |
| 28 | Those clays in fact go right across the hillside there , and they cause a lot of problems because they slope inland , and over Ritchie Hill , coming out of Newhaven , the road there is nearly always during the winter months broken by cracks which open up , and has in fact been subject to considerable reconstruction this last summer . |
| 29 | Although appearing solid , the buckle had in fact been hollow . |
| 30 | The news that she had in fact been successful in her interview went a very long way to ease her bruised feelings — so much so that when the day dawned when she was to start her new job she almost forgot to pull her hair back into a screwed-up knot , and to don her glasses . |