Example sentences of "[been] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus even the earliest and most modest collection of phrase structure rules would have been pregnant with new output ; and as the rules became entrenched so too would innovative effort and diagnostic insight become more relaxed and automatic , as words appeared newly combined in well-understood syntactic contexts . |
| 2 | They say she 'd been depressed in recent days |
| 3 | In many rural areas it has therefore been usual for local farm workers to work on the land ‘ man and boy ’ . |
| 4 | OVER the past decade , experimental methods have been used to increasing effect to discover the empirical strengths and weaknesses of economic theories , and to supplement empirical evidence obtained using more conventional econometric methods . |
| 5 | Runcorn opened on June 1 and has been terrific with small fish all along and bream at Astmoor and S Bends . |
| 6 | The ethnic factor was relatively unimportant as until recently immigrants have been under-represented in local authority accommodation . |
| 7 | But the discharge may be refused or postponed if he has been guilty of certain offences or misconduct in connection with the bankruptcy , or if his assets are insufficient for the payment of 50p in the £ , unless this is shown not to be due to the debtor 's fault . |
| 8 | The chastened company admitted that the shock loss showed that it had been guilty of poor financial controls and a badly-timed shareholders letter — Vannotti said the board was convinced up to March 22 when the shareholders letter was sent that it would record a profit for 1992 , but he and the chairman subsequently ordered a special audit , after financial controllers warned of problems with the accounts for Ascom 's cable television and mobile telephone businesses in Germany , and a closer examination revealed the German results had to be corrected by $41m — $28m of extraordinary depreciation and $12.8m of adjustments to inventory values , Vannotti said . |
| 9 | He 's been guilty of sharp practice in the past , though this is undoubtedly the worst example I 've come across personally . ’ |
| 10 | has been guilty of fraudulent trading contrary to s. 458 of the Companies Act 1985 ; |
| 11 | Of course if her doctor has been guilty of serious neglect , you and your parent may decide that you should lodge a complaint with the local Community Health Council , whose job is to represent to the Area Health Authority the interests of the public in the district in which it operates . |
| 12 | Under the Common Law , proof that the plaintiff had been guilty of contributory negligence , and that he had the ‘ last opportunity ’ of avoiding the accident , entirely deprived him of his remedy . |
| 13 | Public protest followed a judge who fined a rapist 2,000 after asserting that the woman had been guilty of contributory negligence by hitch-hiking . |
| 14 | He was therefore held to have been guilty of contributory negligence and the widow 's damages reduced . |
| 15 | Under the old law of larceny he may not have been guilty of attempted larceny . |
| 16 | ‘ ( 1 ) The ex turpi causa defence ultimately rests on a principle of public policy that the courts will not assist a plaintiff who has been guilty of illegal ( or immoral ) conduct of which the courts should take notice . |
| 17 | 12–7– They dealt with " Mary Trotter who before joining the Free Church has been guilty of antenuptial fornication and that while a communicant . " |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Equally , in the case of John Main at Inverkeithing , he and his two fellow excisemen were threatened with the board 's displeasure in 1752 , when the collector of Bo'ness accepted , without any enquiry into the facts , an allegation that they had been guilty of excessive drinking and had thereby neglected their duties . |
| 20 | The Monis government had been guilty of foolish panic , the Marne growers of mob violence . |
| 21 | Joan Durbeyfield , watching , wondered for the first time if she had been right in encouraging Tess to go . |
| 22 | The first three months of this year we 've had an increase in sales , but those have really been attributable to improved er t to stronger U S and Canadian currency rates . |
| 23 | He has been friendly with Holy Trinity 's vicar since teaching him at theological college in Durham . |
| 24 | Simple cottages of compacted chalk and flint with front walls the depth of a single brick were flung up in rows of squalid terraces with neither drains nor water supplies ; what had been normal in rural Sussex soon became a trap of disease and hopelessness . |
| 25 | High water tables would have been conducive to hot springs at elevated locations , without requiring changes in the intensity of heat sources . |
| 26 | Additionally the political atmosphere has not been conducive to encouraging oil companies to engage in active exploration and development though this still continues despite the pull-out of Exxon and Mobil . |
| 27 | If he had been alert to everyday things he knew he would have heard it sooner . |
| 28 | The whole instrument has been edge-bound in attractive ivoroid , which is destined to turn slightly yellow with the passing of time . |
| 29 | The delays appear to have been due to administrative confusion and a lack of political will . |
| 30 | In the entire study population the associations , particularly with periodontal disease , were weak and may have been due to small biases or residual confounding . |