Example sentences of "have been [adj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The educational background and training of chartered librarians in Britain has not been well understood by teachers , and in particular it has been noticeable how reluctant spokesmen of the School Library Association have been to acknowledge that some librarians have received a special training in work with children of school age , with materials for children of school age , and involving more than an acquaintance with the study of educational systems and methods and of child development . |
| 2 | The fact that it has been necessary so many times over the years to attempt interventions to halt conflict and define stretches of frontier invites an explanation . |
| 3 | When this experience passes and Paul regains a semblance of his former consciousness , he finds he has been stricken temporarily blind . |
| 4 | But Perks has been surprised how varied City backgrounds are . |
| 5 | Saint Winifred has been happy here seven years and more , and to this house she has returned . |
| 6 | " I saw him just before nine and I thought then that he 'd been dead about twelve hours , perhaps a little longer . |
| 7 | The expansion of the study of family history in recent years , and the coming together of historical and sociological concerns in this field in particular , makes it possible at least to attempt answers to these questions in a way that would not have been possible even ten years ago , for lack of appropriate sources of evidence . |
| 8 | They did not see that the rampant nationalism that had brought Presidents Tudjman and Milosevic to power would so fan the flames of separatism and so reawaken the enmities of 50 years or more , that the compromise that might well have been possible earlier this year and which the European Foreign Ministers have since tried to impose has now become impossible . |
| 9 | The latter is surprising since , in America , Urosalpinx is the southern species and Nucella the northern one and this observation may have been due as much to lowered salinity as to temperature . |
| 10 | He must have been well over six feet tall because Jenna was not in any way small , but she felt it now . |
| 11 | Its population at this time can hardly have been less than 50,000 and may easily have been well over 60,000 . |
| 12 | The fact that such consideration , with any firm basis of likelihood , would have been impossible as little as 30 or even 20 years ago is an indication of the changing sexual climate in Britain . |
| 13 | For example , Ambrose , Harper and Pemberton 's ( 1983 ) small study of men after divorce found that just over half their sample relied on parents and/or siblings for support , but they give little detail about the type of support offered and it may well have been practical as much as emotional . |
| 14 | In Poland this week government and opposition signed an agreement which would have been unthinkable even six months ago . |
| 15 | Open consideration of sexual matters and casual reference to them have become possible to an extent which would have been unthinkable as little as a generation ago and which might have led to criminal — or lunacy — proceedings at the beginning of the century . |
| 16 | People thought he was doing this deliberately , because people never really believe that the beautiful lack confidence ; looking back , I think that to start with Boy must have been frightened almost all of the time . |
| 17 | The expression of output in the form of performance indicators ( see chapter 10 ) , which were to have been quantitative wherever possible , has caused considerable problems . |
| 18 | Among other ward staff , only one had been present as many as ten times . |
| 19 | He had been wrong-footed too many times already in this conversation . |
| 20 | He had been awake nearly all the night with an attack of hiccups — something he had never been prone to . |
| 21 | In 1896 it had been well over half a century since Parliament had made specific grants to build parish churches and if Church schools got grants they did so as voluntary , not as Church schools : Roman Catholic , Methodist and ‘ British ’ schools were equally entitled to the grants . |
| 22 | It had been empty nearly two years . |
| 23 | Bartlemas and O'Rourke had been silent too long and burst again into stereo action . |
| 24 | Er I 've been able just this week to set up a little er programme at er at work whereby er I have a list of all the newspapers and T Vs and radio stations on a file , and I can tap in a press release , press the button and it would fax them all one after the other , to the various interested bodies . |
| 25 | There have been well over 300 scrutinies carried out since 1979 The scrutiny approach involves selecting targets for examination , typically over a 90-day time-scale . |
| 26 | We have been bemused too long by the great military roads of the Romans and have not given enough thought and research to the local ‘ economic ’ roads that developed during the two or three centuries that followed the Conquest and the brief phase of military occupation . |
| 27 | Before returning to the Cape , he had written ‘ I have been idle so long that I doubt if I shall ever do a single grand battement in my life again — I crack when I move . ’ |
| 28 | used to go Isle of Man and that , and Bury 's at Lewiston , where it 's been dead now two or three year now , ai n't they ? |
| 29 | Like that one 's been empty too long . |
| 30 | It 's been empty so long that people have spread a lot of foolish stories about it . |