Example sentences of "[been] [adj] [prep] [art] [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 | Jonathon is a graduate of the Northern College of Music and has been professional as a viola and violin player for 6 years . |
| 5 | Santa shivered when Suzanne wrapped his body in cold , clammy bandages which had been pre-soaked in a solution of menthol , camphor , marine algae and alcohol . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He wondered whether he 'd been asleep for a while , or just deep in thought . |
| 8 | She felt heavy-lidded and drowsy , as if she had been asleep for a week . |
| 9 | I 've been asleep for an hour . |
| 10 | Have I been asleep under a hedge with a strange man not my husband ? |
| 11 | Had he been asleep at the time ? |
| 12 | By the embers of the fire in the grate of the long kitchen , the burly man had been asleep in a chair . |
| 13 | He 's been asleep in the car . |
| 14 | He was also the most relaxed of batsmen , often having been asleep in the dressing-room before going out to the middle . |
| 15 | I had been poorly for a while and could n't eat and the doctor thought it may be appendicitis so he sent me to Darlington Hospital . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The Chinese leaders appear to have been dissatisfied with a number of aspects of the Sino-Soviet treaty of 1950 , and at the 20th Congress of the CPSU in 1956 they were reportedly unhappy about the manner in which Khrushchev had denounced the actions of Stalin . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Both establishments had open fronts so that conditions for employees could not have been pleasant during the winter months . |
| 27 | Mr Morley is understood to have been depressed since the death of his wife from cancer nearly two years ago . |
| 28 | Third , Indian exports have been depressed by a combination of politics and nature . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In Emor he had been rich beyond the dreams of avarice . |