Example sentences of "been [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely she 'd only been asleep for five minutes at the very most ? |
| 2 | She must have been asleep for some hours when the sound of her opening bedroom door penetrated her dreams and brought her instantly awake . |
| 3 | The currency has been stable for six months . |
| 4 | The mammalian gut has been stable for many millennia and acts to constrain the flexibility of E. coli 's genome . |
| 5 | They say she 'd been depressed in recent days |
| 6 | That charge has been wrong-headed for some years ; nevertheless , it has been sustained by enough left-wing activity to feed Conservative propaganda . |
| 7 | Adult worm burdens are typically in excess of 40,000 , although lower numbers are often found in animals which has been diarrhoeic for several days prior to necropsy . |
| 8 | It 's tremendous as it 's been dry for 10 years . |
| 9 | But the discharge may be refused or postponed if he has been guilty of certain offences or misconduct in connection with the bankruptcy , or if his assets are insufficient for the payment of 50p in the £ , unless this is shown not to be due to the debtor 's fault . |
| 10 | It had originally been left to her by a noted amateur ornithologist and eccentric with whom she had been friendly for many years . |
| 11 | The state 's involvement offers crucial protection , since failure to accept a coin or tampering with it in some way , like making a forgery , then is regarded as a crime against the state , and serious penalties including execution have frequently been normal for such activities . |
| 12 | Here again Suger was reasserting royal supremacy in a world which had long been deaf to such claims . |
| 13 | ‘ There had been a good relationship on the whole between the management and myself and it has been supportive on both sides . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ He has been outstanding for several weeks now — and he 's got real pace , which you ca n't find these days , never mind buy it . |
| 15 | High water tables would have been conducive to hot springs at elevated locations , without requiring changes in the intensity of heat sources . |
| 16 | If he had been alert to everyday things he knew he would have heard it sooner . |
| 17 | In the entire study population the associations , particularly with periodontal disease , were weak and may have been due to small biases or residual confounding . |
| 18 | This had been due to lower earnings in Wales and lower employment opportunity , said Mr MacKay . |
| 19 | I understand that the closure of the colliery in question has been due to heavy losses resulting from continued failure to meet operating targets . |
| 20 | Remember , too , that the strains within the ERM have been due to exceptional circumstances . |
| 21 | The annual floods had been low for some years , and conditions in the villages were very bad . |
| 22 | Interest rates had already been low for twenty years when the turnpike mania began in 1750 and remained low after it ended in 1772 . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , only minimal control over this basic aspect of construction has been possible with these devices . |
| 24 | This growth in what the tourism business winsomely calls the ‘ silver generation ’ would not have been possible without big changes in boots and bindings . |
| 25 | No matter how skilled the executives , these shifts in the production structure would not have been possible without complementary adjustments in the way firms can organise their financial affairs . |
| 26 | It could be improved by including all the results of excavations since 1961 , but this has not been possible for various reasons , the most important of which is that it is no longer the intention to study the results of 367 , but to turn to another event recorded by Ammianus which can be illuminated by this old study and by more recent work . |
| 27 | Since December 1981 it has been possible for non-US residents to hold euro-dollar deposits and obtain euro-dollar loans from international banking facilities within the USA . |
| 28 | Many of the country lanes were so narrow that it would not have been possible for two vehicles to pass each other , but after half an hour , they cut into the main road that ran south from Cherbourg to Carentan . |
| 29 | The theoretical proposal had been public for several years . |
| 30 | l9 Moreover , the kairos approach can not speak to the fact of an all-male priesthood ( which God is supposed to have given to His church and to have been adequate in past ages ) precisely having been one of the factors making for the secondary position of women in society . |