Example sentences of "been [adj] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been iced to resemble the cover of the guide . |
| 2 | Nearly all the readings of the printed version are either musically superior to those in the theatre score , or result from octave transposition — necessary at one point to avoid an unplayable bottom B' B♠occasioned by downward transposition from G to F. ( A change would have been unnecessary had the transposition gone the other way . ) |
| 3 | Li Shai Tung had been right to sign the boy 's death warrant . |
| 4 | The story , which mentioned Puddephat by name , should have appeared in his file , but she had been right to doubt the efficiency of the Herald 's library staff . |
| 5 | Wordsworth probably never knew how his walks with Dorothy and Coleridge had been misrepresented by the garrulous old man , and would have been sorry to discover the truth . |
| 6 | This was a sensible and useful method of reference ; one which would have been invaluable to the gatherers of simples , who must have been grateful to find the information in a reasonably priced book . |
| 7 | The Russian 's group arrived in Iraq about the same time as a team of 13 inspectors , which had been due to leave the country yesterday , announced it was staying on . |
| 8 | Tania 's mother , Jackie May , said her daughter had been due to attend a court hearing in Gloucester the day after her disappearance last Wednesday . |
| 9 | The controversial Chesterfield MP had been due to give a lecture at Queen 's University this evening on the future of British politics . |
| 10 | The Government had been due to confirm the route on Wednesday but postponed the details until next week . |
| 11 | Denzil Kobbekaduwa , who had been due to assume the post was killed in August after being ambushed by LTTE forces off the Jaffna Peninsula [ see p. 39053 ] . |
| 12 | Boban also took control of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ) in the republic , ousting the moderate Stjepan Kljujic who had been due to become the republic 's next president . |
| 13 | In a well-led and well-motivated military force it has always been possible to form a rearguard who will fight tenaciously on behalf of their colleagues . |
| 14 | If it had only been possible to hold the conference without him ! |
| 15 | Until recently , it has not been possible to use the Census to follow a particular group of people through their lives ( but see Fox and Goldblatt above ) , but it is perfectly feasible to study the changing population structure of , say , a particular district . |
| 16 | Despite efforts by staff to integrate different issues as far as an individual is concerned this has not always been possible given the present working practice , locations and procedures . |
| 17 | By producing precisely controlled changes in the concentrations of nutrients or salts in the blood it has been possible to explore the role of factors like blood glucose level or cellular dehydration in eating and drinking ( LeMagnen 1985 ; Rolls and Rolls 1982 ) . |
| 18 | It has not been possible to assess the state of their health , but fishermen have advised marine biologists that the area contains very little food . |
| 19 | In a circular yesterday , the company said it had not been possible to arrange a refinancing on conventional terms . |
| 20 | Until quite recently it has not been possible to track the land use implications of such economic and social changes in any detail . |
| 21 | Recall the requirements of this principle ( cf. 6.1 ) that ‘ all occurrences of a given variant are noted , and where it has been possible to define the variable as a closed set of variants , all non-occurrences of the variant in the relevant circumstances ’ ( Labov 1982a : 30 ) . |
| 22 | Proceedings in a Dutch court were begun by a document transmitted under the Hague Convention to a local court in Germany which certified under Article 6 that it had not been possible to serve the document . |
| 23 | It had been possible to board a steamer for Norway at Port Dundas . |
| 24 | Modern engineers have demonstrated , at least on paper , construction techniques that would certainly have been possible using the equipment available to Neolithic and later cultures . |
| 25 | In the social dialectology carried out in Belfast , however , quantification was necessary : if it had been possible to do the work without quantifying , we would have done it that way ! |
| 26 | And over the years it 's been possible to identify a number of factors produced by these bacteria that seem to make sense in terms of the pathology and the conditions . |
| 27 | In other words , if the legal discourse had exactly paralleled the everyday discourse it would not have been possible to achieve a solution in one but not in the other . |
| 28 | After a decade of severe staffing pressures it has been possible to achieve the objective of currency only by accepting reductions in the standard of the catalogue information provided to readers ( for example , the Library does not have the resources to supply subject information to reduced records acquired from the British Library ) , and by continuing not to assign much-needed additional staff resources for the essential work of the proper management of aspects of the Online Catalogue ( for example , authority control ) , in order to make consultation of the Catalogue easier for |
| 29 | Moreover , the attention the association has paid to cinema has offered a space in which it has been possible to raise the issue of the production and distribution of narrative and dramatic works in African languages . |
| 30 | Moreover , by relating this information to data on spreading rates , the directions of relative plate motions derived from the analysis of earthquakes , and palaeomagnetic evidence of continental palaeolatitudes , it has been possible to establish the direction and speed of present-day plate motions and what is probably a fairly accurate history of movements over the past 200 Ma or so ( Fig. 2.16 ) . |