Example sentences of "been [adj] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Labour government that died in 1951 had been tolerant of the corporate state , reverent of union power and credulous of collectivism , and its spirit persisted : by the 1970s half and more of those in full-time employment in Britain were employed , directly or indirectly , by the state . |
| 2 | The Government have been woolly about the exact meaning of their proposals . |
| 3 | He had been an unsuccessful amateur jockey some fifteen years ago and had then been assistant to a leading jump trainer in Lambourn . |
| 4 | Psychology ( another recent coinage , this time by John Stuart Mill ) was still linked with philosophy — A. Bain 's Mental and Moral Science ( 1868 ) still combined it with ethics — but was increasingly given an experimental orientation with W. Wundt ( 1832–1920 ) , who had been assistant to the great Helmholtz . |
| 5 | ‘ It feels like I 've been asleep for a long , long time . |
| 6 | You 've been asleep for a long time . ’ |
| 7 | This fairy castle in the clouds has been asleep for a hundred years and the briars are beginning to take over . |
| 8 | You have been asleep for the past two hours . ’ |
| 9 | Iain Ogilvy McWhirter ( Senior English and Religious Instruction ) had been asleep for the past ten minutes , but Tom Tedder ( Art and Woodwork ) said ‘ Arrgh ’ through closed lips , and that seemed to do well enough . |
| 10 | Mr Clifford , for anyone who has been asleep through the entire summer , is to jilted mistresses what Zimmer frames are to decrepit old ones . |
| 11 | In fact , the revenue has been stable for the last three years . |
| 12 | The range of this regular pulsation is only 0–02 per cent of the Sun 's radius , but it has been stable over the full 250-year span covered by the various sets of observations . |
| 13 | Injury statistics and trends show that after substantial reductions in recent decades , employees fatalities appear to be levelling off at about 1.6 per 100 000 employees and that the reported major injury rate for employees has been stable over the last three years . |
| 14 | Even if Crabb 's next-of-kin had been dissatisfied with the official explanation and had made such a fuss that the government was forced to hold some sort of inquiry the truth would still not have been told . |
| 15 | Significantly it is in Kenya where both experience and investment in curriculum development have been greatest over the past fifteen years that policies towards devolution in curriculum implementation are furthest advanced . |
| 16 | ‘ She had been depressed during the last 18 months but I thought she was getting better . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | So far as mining is concerned , the long colliery shifts of the nineteenth century do not seem to have been usual in the eighteenth . |
| 19 | His own money has been hard-earned as a shrewd farmer and dealer , with timing on his side as the property market hit a peak in the late 1980s . |
| 20 | TWO British actresses , Elizabeth Hurley and Lysette Anthony , have been short-listed for the leading female role in Gone With The Wind II : Scarlett . |
| 21 | ‘ Schnell , bitte ’ Lefevre 's injunction , on the other hand , would have been unnecessary in the French capital , where one and all drove like madmen . |
| 22 | He had been dry for the past twenty years . |
| 23 | If you have been guilty of a fundamental breach of your obligations under the contract , you will , of course , have been lawfully dismissed and therefore entitled to no compensation . |
| 24 | She had more than once been guilty of the unkind opinion that the gaunt , ageing nun had a somewhat masculine cast of countenance . |
| 25 | He confessed that he might inadvertently have been guilty of the second on occasion and freely admitted to taking gifts of the third kind , which he regarded as entirely permissible . |
| 26 | When they turn to the handling charge they must presume that he is not guilty of robbery ; and , if they are quite satisfied that he must have been guilty of the one offence or the other , they are bound to conclude that he was guilty of handling . |
| 27 | In other words , the recollection that the Friend had once been guilty of the same fault is a consolation to the Poet , for he now knows how the other must have ‘ bowed ’ under his own , ‘ transgression ’ : They are equal , then — but more , they are united : ‘ Oh , that our night of woe might have remember'd/My deepest sense how hard true sorrow hits . ’ |
| 28 | On the contrary , the child imagines that only unworthy female persons have thus sacrificed their genital organ , such persons as have probably been guilty of the same forbidden impulses as he himself . |
| 29 | A general reading of the book encourages the suspicion that the principle of verification is being used , not simply to exclude some clear and obvious errors , but to cut out swathes of philosophical tradition that have never been guilty of the crude misconceptions of which they are accused by Ayer . |
| 30 | 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 . |