Example sentences of "[been] [adj] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several organisations have been signed-up to the rebuild and the schedule has the aircraft flying on the 50th anniversary date . |
| 2 | It 's hard to imagine now the armies of men working here and at Beldi Hill , but at one time the area must have been loud with the noise of men and their picks , crowbars , shovels , barrows , crushing hammers and water-wheels . |
| 3 | Geoffrey 's appointment was appropriate , as he had been assistant to the marshal in the Welsh war of 1282 . |
| 4 | It is in the field of its own procedures that the Court of Appeal , in the past , has been receptive to the claim of substantive justice . |
| 5 | Had he been asleep at the time ? |
| 6 | He 's been asleep in the car . |
| 7 | He was also the most relaxed of batsmen , often having been asleep in the dressing-room before going out to the middle . |
| 8 | Then there are the poems of Persia and India that I love above all others ; they have gone the farthest and have been freest of the world 's gravity . |
| 9 | Pijnenborg et al point out that ‘ many doctors ’ participate in and accept the practice and they claim that the practice has been stable over the years and assume that it may be less in future . |
| 10 | Much of the research into the social psychology of racism has been narrow to the extent to which it has concentrated upon images of outgroups , rather than on the image of ‘ prejudice ’ or ‘ racism ’ itself . |
| 11 | One of those who had attended the initial meeting in September 1967 , an independent radical Matt O'Leary , had been dissatisfied with the aims of NICRA . |
| 12 | Indeed , it should be emphasized that Picasso had been dissatisfied with the limitations imposed on pictorial volumes by a scientific or linear system of perspective for some time before he became aware of the fact that Cézanne 's painting suggested a new concept of form and space . |
| 13 | In fact it seems more likely that Picasso felt that the Demoiselles as he decided to accept or leave it represented a truly astonishing challenge with which he himself must come to terms ; obviously if he had been dissatisfied with the look of the painting he would not have left it as it is , and it has been argued that the stylistic discrepancies within the painting are essential to its iconography , to the message which it is intended to convey . |
| 14 | The appointment of Tapie — who was not a member of the ruling Parti socialiste ( PS ) although as a deputy for the " presidential majority " he had voted along with it — had been controversial within the PS . |
| 15 | Both proposals , little changed in respect to the previous , have been controversial within the Commission itself and are still causing problems among the member states . |
| 16 | Any offer of help , even if presented as a humanitarian gesture , would have been controversial in the US and Israel , which still sees the PLO as a terrorist organisation . |
| 17 | It would have been opportune for the committee to examine the whole purpose and function of A levels , to see whether they were needed at all ; or whether , if retained , they should be radically changed . |
| 18 | Both establishments had open fronts so that conditions for employees could not have been pleasant during the winter months . |
| 19 | Mr Morley is understood to have been depressed since the death of his wife from cancer nearly two years ago . |
| 20 | I happened to see Sir John Woods [ Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade ] tonight and he told me that Sir Stafford Cripps had been reading the minutes of Cabinet committees during his absence [ in India , where he had been for nearly four months trying to reach a settlement which would lead to independence ] and had been depressed by the amount of time and energy taken up in the Ministerial Committees with the discussion of quite minor matters which individual Ministers ought to settle in their discretion . |
| 21 | In Emor he had been rich beyond the dreams of avarice . |
| 22 | this morning this beautiful day had been rich with the promise of some wonderful event before nightfall . |
| 23 | Mum jumped up straight away and began rearranging the furniture which had been upset in the commotion . |
| 24 | Sitting by her bedroom window later that night , Laura lectured herself for having been so naïve as to have been upset by the remarks he had originally made on the dance-floor . |
| 25 | He was put on probation and ordered to do community service after a solicitor said he 'd been upset by the death of his mother . |
| 26 | He began by saying he had been asked to speak on censorship and that he had been upset by the reception meted out to Sinead O'Connor at the Madison Square Garden Bob Dylan tribute . |
| 27 | I had been upset by the news about George . |
| 28 | Not for the first time , therefore , a government keen on deregulation has been upset by the results . |
| 29 | She put her head on one side , trying to make him understand from the look in her eyes that Stephen had been upset by the references to his mother 's death . |
| 30 | Where the old regime 's power survived intact — eg , in the parliament — that power has been used to the country 's detriment . |