Example sentences of "been [adj] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Well if it came over his house th oh of course , next to the that will have been empty for a few years so |
| 5 | If I remember right , first home matches have been similar for a few years now . |
| 6 | They had however , been subject to the same grounds for referral and allegations as the other three families at the first Children 's Panel Hearing on 5 March . |
| 7 | With both railways only ten miles apart , however , it makes the SDR figures all the more remarkable because both have been subject to the same local economic situation and relative decline in tourist numbers . |
| 8 | Britain has been subject to the same decline in long-stay beds and has responded in the same way as other European countries to this fall in the mental hospital population . |
| 9 | Business had been good in the few weeks she had been in charge , but she was astute enough to realise that many of the customers had been coming to the club simply to see her . |
| 10 | You 've both followed international careers , acquiring a cosmopolitan patina , you 've both been involved with the same man … |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been involved in a few of these things but I 've never seen anyone bring it up to the level he did — he turned it up a few notches . ’ |
| 12 | Some take a little longer to persuade than others , and , like many of my colleagues , I have been involved in a few " Sweeny " type incidents ashore and afloat . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been involved in a few preliminary meetings so far to pick a training squad , and I 've also got involved in the training sessions themselves . |
| 14 | N. American Star has been available for a few years here in the UK . |
| 15 | Syl was more of my mother 's generation than my own but it had never occurred to me before that he and she and Lili must all have been young at the same time . |
| 16 | They must have been close to the same age , but Sandra looked very young , like a petulant child wearing the costume of a grown woman . |
| 17 | The question to be addressed by an industrial tribunal in a particular case is whether a man would have been dismissed by the employer if , in the same circumstances , he would have been absent for the same length of time for medical reasons . |
| 18 | ( The General Register Office in Edinburgh has been aware of the few errors in the Scottish data ) . |
| 19 | Before I began the formal research I had been aware from the few parents of children with trisomy 21 I knew that there was more disquiet about their negotiations with professionals and the treatment of their children than had made its way into the academic and professional literature on parents and families . |
| 20 | I must have been mad for a few hours , and I swept you up in it too . |
| 21 | It is always interesting to note how handicappers assess maiden race form in comparison with sellers , and in allotting Peak District a 17lb higher rating than Dari Sound , the official may have been over-harsh on the former . |