Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] [noun sg] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Since when has a metaphorical gym-slip been a deterrent when a beautiful adolescent sets her sights on a young and virile man ? ’ |
| 2 | But seldom has a military miscalculation been so gross and retribution so immediate . |
| 3 | Has a proper analysis been made of its implications for the fishing industry in the Irish sea ? |
| 4 | However in only one case has a functional element been defined to a very small region . |
| 5 | Had a final draft been posted ? |
| 6 | In the normal run of things , had a verbal warning been necessary — which it certainly was n't — then it was without question that Naylor Massingham would certainly not have wasted his precious time on such trips , but would have delegated one of his underlings to do it . |
| 7 | It is strange therefore that the signal box instruments revealed it as clear , the signal must have been at green , or had a heavy weight been lying across the signal wire ? |
| 8 | Had a sexual history been taken at the time of his first visit , it would have emerged that , although he had a long-lasting and stable sexual relationship with one person , his partner was of a promiscuous nature and was known by Philip H. to have had several casual sexual encounters over the preceding year . |
| 9 | The Avila press believe , as do we , that had a proper search been conducted from the beginning , Jeremy would have been found alive . |
| 10 | This view will be related to the determinate sentence that would have been passed but for the element of mental instability and/or public risk which led the judge to pass a life sentence and will also take account of the notional period of the sentence which a prisoner might expect to have been remitted for good behaviour had a determinate sentence been passed . |
| 11 | But hardly had a white part been exposed before blackness covered it again . |
| 12 | Have the procedures for ensuring a responsive bureaucracy been nullified by the power of the bureaucracy itself , so that the functionaries , rather than elected politicians ( who are no longer easily distinguishable from bureaucrats themselves ) , rule ? |