Example sentences of "[noun sg] [been] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When allegations that Schnur had worked for the Stasi for at least 20 years were first made on March 9 his denials were supported up by the West German government which said that he had on the contrary been passing information on political repression in East Germany to them . |
| 2 | Had all that netting and noise been sufficient deterrent ? |
| 3 | It is , however , a presumption that may be more easily displaced in family cases particularly those involving children where it has not in the past been usual practice to award costs against an unsuccessful party . |
| 4 | He might have been tired yesterday , but , after a night of what had no doubt been peaceful sleep , he was bursting with vitality and good health . |
| 5 | Special education has for a long time been fertile ground for curricula based on linear models of learning , guided and assessed through hierarchies of objectives . |
| 6 | Had the victim been old Fagg himself , the suspect list would have been much longer and more colourful , in every sense of the word . |