Example sentences of "[noun] [been] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Sir John , chairman of the scientific group on the United Nations intergovernmental panel on climate change , and a former chief executive of the Meteorological Office , said : ‘ Never before have so many scientists from so many disciplines been involved in scientific assessment . ’ |
| 2 | Had Robson 's calming influence been available to United against their neighbours , then they may not have lost their composure and the chance to move four points clear of Leeds . |
| 3 | But the protests could probably have been avoided altogether had officials been sensitive to Tibetan worries . |
| 4 | The human race has for thousands of years been aware of powerful links between tears and health . |
| 5 | Among politicians Joseph Chamberlain , a successful Birmingham manufacturer , had throughout his adult life been involved in Nonconformist philanthropy . |
| 6 | But if this were the case why has the local-central state system been subject to continuous conflict and occasional crisis ? |
| 7 | The creation of truth has , from time to time been manifest in religious thinking , but it has been either not recognised as such , or deliberately not admitted to be such . |
| 8 | 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 . |