Example sentences of "[been] [adj] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the end of Athens ' archaic war with Eleusis it would have been absurd for any deme of Attica to think of rivalling Athens . |
| 2 | Whereas , none of the bands I 've been in have ever been showbizzy in that sense , and if we 're in a bad mood then we play really badly . |
| 3 | The marshy lands around Stirling and Bannockburn must have been inhospitable to these early settlers , but were to prove of incalculable worth to fourteenth-century patriots determined to assert their independence from southern predators . |
| 4 | He had been asleep for less than half an hour . |
| 5 | As it was , this first ever trip on a narrow boat looked like being her last , and she had been asleep for most of it . |
| 6 | She must have been asleep for some hours when the sound of her opening bedroom door penetrated her dreams and brought her instantly awake . |
| 7 | He had been asleep for some time , physically exhausted after his ordeal , but now he tossed and turned , held fast in the grip of some awful nightmare . |
| 8 | ‘ The nurse tells me she 's been asleep for some time . ’ |
| 9 | Late night I was in bed by twenty past ten , I was in bed and I say I must of been asleep by half past , |
| 10 | The wealth of other trades was on a much smaller scale , one that can not have been untypical of most provincial communities . |
| 11 | The mammalian gut has been stable for many millennia and acts to constrain the flexibility of E. coli 's genome . |
| 12 | She has been depressed for some time . |
| 13 | That charge has been wrong-headed for some years ; nevertheless , it has been sustained by enough left-wing activity to feed Conservative propaganda . |
| 14 | She 'd been upset by that . |
| 15 | and wild beyond er , that one boy who was and had n't been used to that sort of thing , for his father had kept a small cook stock his companion that unless he has another basin of gruel he was afraid he might , he might some night happen to eat , eat the boy he slept next to , who happened to be a weakly youth of tender eight and they , and they impeccably believed him . |
| 16 | Resorting to personal ties to survive or advance is a mechanism which has been used to some effect over the generations , but which prevents people turning to organisations or political activity which might , in the long run , prove more effective in solving their problems . |
| 17 | Adult worm burdens are typically in excess of 40,000 , although lower numbers are often found in animals which has been diarrhoeic for several days prior to necropsy . |
| 18 | I think maybe I must have been Spanish in some former life — I feel as though I 've come home . ’ |
| 19 | The weather had been dry for some time and , fanned by an easterly wind , the fire spread rapidly until , within three days , it had engulfed most of the city . |
| 20 | Well it 's been dry for another day . |
| 21 | None is intended — none of us is perfect , and I too have of course been guilty of many an error in my time . |
| 22 | They have been accused of sledging in the World Cup — as if no team had been guilty of that before . |
| 23 | Tumin claims that the American Medical Association has been guilty of this practice . |
| 24 | In that process , it may well be that some of those concerned in the management of the company , and others as well , have been guilty of some misconduct or impropriety which is of relevance to the liquidation . |
| 25 | has been guilty of any fraud in relation to the company while an officer , etc. , of the company . |
| 26 | Given the Committee 's proposals on buggery , this would have meant that a man who procured a woman 's submission to anal intercourse by threats other than of violence would not necessarily have been guilty of any offence . |
| 27 | It will , however , consider whether the Panel has observed the basic rules of natural justice and has observed its own procedural rules and whether it has been guilty of any irrationality or has misdirected itself in law ( see Datafin ) . |
| 28 | The significant results achieved using this text may have been specific to this domain and hence not necessarily repeatable in other domains ( i.e. the OALD may provide unusually good coverage of commercial or financial terminology ) . |
| 29 | His friend and doctor , Dr James Mortimer , said that Sir Charles ' heart had been weak for some time . |
| 30 | Thereafter the play received a few critically acclaimed performances in Birmingham but has otherwise been unperformed in this country . |