Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] have [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old Josh had been right , as always . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , the Cologne show is worth a try : ‘ You 'd have to be blind not to notice that the German Mark has been strong lately . |
| 3 | Since April last year Historic Scotland has been responsible for the protection of historic wrecks within a 12-mile radius of Scotland . |
| 4 | Although climatic changes undoubtedly occurred during the post-glacial , it appears that the principal determinants of regional vegetational change in the Outer Hebrides have been natural soil changes , with widespread leaching , podsolisation , and bog development beginning at about 7000 B.P. From about 5000 B.P. or even earlier ( Bohnke , 1988 ) , human influence has also been an important factor . |
| 5 | His contribution to the Created God has been tremendous , probably greater than that of any other person in the whole of Christendom , if not of the world . |
| 6 | When Karen Stephens trained as a hairdresser she had to learn more than just the rudiments of cutting and blow-drying/ She also had to tackle the problems of learning how to lip-read in a mirror , as 20-year-old Karen has been deaf all her life . |
| 7 | ‘ It was obvious Heather had been unwell , but she seemed almost completely better . |
| 8 | Twenty-seven CABx have been involved in piloting the Lawtel service . |
| 9 | The Guardian of Jan. 9 , for example , reported that Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) documents circulated internally in late December had been critical of Gorbachev and had blamed him for the " subversion " of socialism in Eastern Europe . |
| 10 | My concern about the caravan site was only a kind of self-importance , and , as a result of my terrible selfishness poor Tom had been frightened in a way that might well scar him for much longer than that little stone . |
| 11 | The starting-point in Eastern Europe has been clear rejection of Marxist economics and clear commitment to a market system , complete with private ownership and private enterprise . |
| 12 | All Jenna had been able to do was say , ‘ Monsieur Lemarchand , s'il vous plaît . ’ |
| 13 | But he had demanded to know what it was , and finally poor Louise had been obliged to explain what had happened . |
| 14 | As usual Maeve had been full of questions . |
| 15 | Thus far C.N.L. have been unable to plead justification in defence to the claim . |
| 16 | ‘ When he was very small Helen had been all that he was not ; wise , mature , equipped with skills and resources . |
| 17 | The 1983 agreement by eighteen countries to set up a regional preferential trading area ( PTA ) in East and Southern Africa has been little more successful in overcoming three familiar problems . |
| 18 | While the Romans are described as being tributary , it seems that the lands which had originally been granted to free-born Franks had been exempt from tax , and that the Franks subsequently assumed that any lands which they came to hold were similarly exempt . |
| 19 | At first Stuart had been excited by the sight of an occasional fish rising out of the sluggish water , but later he 'd grown bored because he was too small to row successfully , and trailing his hands over the side apparently disturbed the fish ; baling out with the old saucepan also made too much noise . |
| 20 | Strong in the air , alert and mobile Rogan has been outstanding . |
| 21 | In particular Jan had been impressed with Kylie after seeing her on The Zoo Family . |
| 22 | Since the much-welcomed United Agreement , signed in 1987 between Robert Mugabe 's ZANU and Joshua Nkomo 's ZAPU , the atmosphere in hard-pressed Matabeleland has been peaceful , and the South African-backed MNR ( Mozambique National Resistance ) have been pushed back into Mozambique . |
| 23 | Only six winters earlier , respectable London had been awash with fears of violent crime . |
| 24 | Middlesbrough-born Alf has been chief personnel officer with Middlesbrough council since 1974 and before that he worked for Teesside county borough council . |
| 25 | Throughout 1989 China had been concerned at what it described as Taiwan 's " dollar diplomacy " aimed at " buying " recognition from a number of poorer countries . |
| 26 | The show will open at Darlington Civic Theatre on April 29 for a two week run , but so far the search for a Young Walsingham has been fruitless . |
| 27 | Until the end of the seventeenth century her diplomatic contacts with the States of Western Europe had been intermittent and usually unimportant ( see p. 256 ) . |
| 28 | Since the failure of the Second Crusade in 1148 the young men of Western Europe had been reluctant to go east , but the news of the disaster at Hattin and the fall of Jerusalem changed all that . |
| 29 | The Soviet Union has now been a socialist state for more than sixty years : many countries in Western Europe have been socialist for more than a quarter century ; and Asia has not only the Chinese experiment in socialism but other countries in Asia , Africa and the Americas have experimented with socialism . |
| 30 | It was probably the reason that the young Julie had been such a complete tomboy . |