Example sentences of "been [adj] and [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out of 12,000 mostly unskilled workers taken on to staff the park , of which two thirds have been French and the rest from abroad , as many as 4,000 are thought to have quit in the last few months , prompting worries about mounting costs on the operators ' training and employment budgets . |
| 2 | Sheriff James Smith told Daniels that his actions had been foolish and the offence was serious . |
| 3 | Bidding at the antiques and collectors items auction had been lively and the programme was bought by a man from Chelmsford , she said . |
| 4 | Had they known of it , the course of events might have been different and a tragedy averted . |
| 5 | The participation rate has been high and the method of eliciting responses , which identifies individual reactions and then tests them out in two other contexts , has produced a reliable collective record of student experience . |
| 6 | There was a security booth at the gate and-a drop-down barrier , but when he 'd arrived the booth had been empty and the barrier had been up . |
| 7 | The council said its previous attempts to stop Sunday trading at a variety of businesses had been unsuccessful and the Trust would be allowed to trade until the High Court hearing which could be ‘ months away . ’ |
| 8 | Diffusion of microcomputers into R&D has been rapid and the pace will increase , except perhaps in small establishments . |
| 9 | Harriet Crawley , London Central Euro constituency , said the campaign had been negative and the advertising ‘ dismal and downhearted ’ . |
| 10 | Chief executive Tim Parker said sales in the early months of the current financial year had been encouraging and the kitchen appliance maker was cautiously optimistic . |
| 11 | Once , when he had been late and a crowd of louts from the factory had started to shout at her , calling out about her legs and what they 'd like to do to her , Georg had come storming down the road on a bicycle , jumped off , and knocked two of them down before the rest ran away . |
| 12 | Only a minority of farm workers have ever been unionized and the history of rural trade unionism has been a chequered one , alternating between brief heady periods of success and long periods of stagnation and weakness . |
| 13 | MAFF did not conduct a farm by farm assessment to define boundaries as DAFS ( Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland ) has done in Scotland because the manpower requirement would have been enormous and the work would have taken , according to MAFF , 8–10 years to complete for England and Wales . |
| 14 | Since the general election the move to fundholding has been dramatic and the suggestion that cash limiting will apply to all practitioners will fuel this trend . |
| 15 | Apart from the cut-off , and the known greater sensitivity of the top half of the RAM no vertical variation in sensitivity has been apparent and no experiment was conducted to measure this more precisely . |
| 16 | A weak version of the first argument is that put forward by opponents of the trade union movement claiming that , if wage rates had not been maintained at what they call an artificially high level , the introduction of labour-saving equipment would have been retarded and the number of available jobs increased . |
| 17 | History argues that when Arabs and Israelis do not make peace they will make war : there have already been five and a half since Israel 's founding . |
| 18 | Production had fallen during 1992 in almost all sectors , privatization had been slow and the performance of the new companies showed little improvement . |
| 19 | Shelduck first bred in Sussex in 1904 but , although numbers established themselves round Chichester and Pagham Harbours fairly quickly , colonisation of the rest of the county has been slow and the breeding population is still mainly concentrated around these two harbours . |
| 20 | My P L C under the Chairmanship of Chester Tabler Mark has been wonderful and the encouragement I have received from seeing the enthusiasm and commitment of the very young Tablers as I purposely invited twenty year old Tablers to be involved in the P L C has given me considerable optimism for the future of Round Table . |
| 21 | A year later , Singh 's successor at the Defence Ministry , K. C. Pant , issued a statement to the Lok Sabha which concluded that the allegations had been baseless and the government had decided to treat the matter " as closed " . |
| 22 | Their meal last night had been delicious and the conversation had flowed and everything had been so very different from what she had expected . |
| 23 | Past experience of implementing soil conservation programmes has been disappointing and the paper tries to identify the more important reasons . |
| 24 | On the field at Culloden , the last of the Boyd clan horse had been disarrayed and the strength reduced to footsoldiering . |
| 25 | The treatment of individual supporters has at times been shoddy and the club need to radically improve their attitude towards the paying customer . |
| 26 | ( b ) As the deceased had been suffering from clinical depression which impaired his judgment , his act had not been voluntary and the defence of volenti failed . |
| 27 | Once her doubts had been satisfied and the door unchained and unbolted , her attitude was one of reproachful expectancy . |
| 28 | The dinner had been excellent and the wine , a Château Potensac '78 , an interesting choice with the main course . |
| 29 | Data entry has not been error-trapped and every field will accept any type of entry , even the date field , so it 's up to the user to ensure the integrity of the data he enters . |