Example sentences of "[been] [adj] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The generation of 1898 redressed in literature the balance that had been upset in the economic development of Spain : with some exaggeration the rediscovery of the desolate attractions of Castile by poets and essayists , many of whom came from peripheral regions , can be seen as a repentant gesture to the centre , devastated for the greater glory of Spain . |
| 2 | So far as mining is concerned , the long colliery shifts of the nineteenth century do not seem to have been usual in the eighteenth . |
| 3 | ‘ Schnell , bitte ’ Lefevre 's injunction , on the other hand , would have been unnecessary in the French capital , where one and all drove like madmen . |
| 4 | If the hon. Gentleman will think back to days gone by , he will remember that such questions have been perennial in the few weeks before a general election . |
| 5 | As a result they have been weak in the diplomatic arena . |
| 6 | The new lines , with more than six times the transmission capacity of the old 132kV Grid lines , would greatly strengthen the north — south interconnections which had been weak in the original Grid design ( see Figure 8. 1 ) . |
| 7 | A subordinate might therefore make a well-informed decision to win a short-term advantage when a different decision would have been preferable in the longer-term view . |
| 8 | Up to the mid-1960s , inflation rates had been low in the international economy due to two major factors . |
| 9 | The tendency to see childhood socialisation as the most important gender-constructing process has always been strong in the social sciences , but it has also been criticised on theoretical and political grounds . |
| 10 | Compensation may be limited if a fair dismissal would , or might , have been possible in the near future , ie where the unfairness lay primarily in accelerating your dismissal . |
| 11 | A constructive dialogue of this kind would not have been possible in the 1980s , when such discussion tended to be ideological in character , rather than purely practical , as in this case . |
| 12 | In the later decades of this period particularly , they could seldom be openly asserted with the conviction which had been possible in the sixteenth century and much of the seventeenth . |
| 13 | IBM Corp 's personal computer business was around the break-even level or may have been profitable in the first three months of this year , the president of IBM Personal Computer Co Robert Corrigan told the New York Times : he says he thinks ‘ people will be surprised at how quickly we 're bringing this business back , ’ and that it should be solidly profitable before year-end ; problem is that its closest rivals , Compaq Computer Corp and Dell Computer Corp , which both faced the same problems as IBM , adjusted to the change in the market much more quickly , and rushed appropriate machines out while IBM procrastinated , so that they are already strongly profitable while IBM is still having to build up momentum . |
| 14 | As the government is quick to point out , the level of resources allocated to the NHS has been generous in the past two years , and as a result productivity has increased and the longest waiting times have fallen . |
| 15 | Swiftly a ‘ marriage bar ’ was introduced , though its application does not appear to have been universal in the civil service until 1894 when government typists ( hitherto an ‘ unestablished ’ all-female grade ) obtained permanent , pensionable ‘ established ’ status by agreeing to a rule requiring automatic resignation on marriage . |
| 16 | Ms Lamont said : ‘ Women have been instrumental in the recent modernising processes of the party and , whilst Labour now has a programme to improve women 's lives significantly , there is no doubt we still require to have women representing the party at all levels . |
| 17 | He has been instrumental in the complete change in my appearance — a good hairdresser is a very valuable asset ! |
| 18 | A further problem with the interpretation of some previous studies of mucosal metabolism has been concern that the procedure used for isolating a pure epithelial cell population from resected bowel specimens may itself have introduced artefacts , and that these artefactual changes might well have been different in the inflamed colitic tissue from those in the histologically normal colon . |
| 19 | And in one respect it 's not quite erm as straightforward as I 've made it appear , and perhaps after all I 'm not wrong in making the claim I did , because E P Thompson , the historian , erm was the person who really made the discovery in the first place , and it came about because he had been interested in the possible links between the Muddletonians and Blake , and this led him to ask questions which , in a roundabout way , led to the discovery of the archive . |
| 20 | Colonel with a K the this band , they used to , that they had from the tenth replacement depot used to come down and play at the Town Hall , and they they like I said before they were fellas on the way to join Glen the absolute ultimate musicians of America and it was why I 'm still today erm I 've got a big collection of jazz records and have always been interested in the big band sound . |
| 21 | Few human ethologists have been interested in the existential issues of human subjectivity implied by the recognition of inner structure . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've always been interested in the light comedy of life , so I 've created my own world , ’ says Doisneau . |
| 23 | He did have red hair and he had certainly been interested in the whole area down by the river walk . |
| 24 | Howard might well have experienced some kind of contemporary equivalent , and therefore , have been interested in the latest turn of events in Texas . |
| 25 | in choosing a laterality index subsequent authors have been interested in the statistical correlation between various indices of laterality and overall accuracy . |
| 26 | Humiliated , she 'd crept away , knowing that her brother too had been interested in the unknown girl . |
| 27 | Level of literary and education have traditionally been high in the Baltic republics ( Estonia , for instance , was 96.2 per cent literate in the 1897 census compared with an average for European Russia as a whole of 28.4 per cent ) , and there are higher than average levels of media consumption , urbanisation and other indicators of ‘ modernity ’ . |
| 28 | Staff turnover has been high in the last few years as school closure has loomed closer . |
| 29 | Job evaluation has long been popular in the private sector as a way of formally assessing the relative value of different jobs — and it is frequently used as a basis for deciding pay . |
| 30 | There is an immense difference between the political systems of fascism and of liberal democracy , either of which may exist in a capitalist society ; and no one can doubt that the history of the world would have been very different if the fascist powers had been victorious in the Second World War . |