Example sentences of "been [adj] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All morning everyone had been speechless with depression about ‘ Sonnet ’ . |
| 2 | I have been depressed about life in the Eighties , the way the economy has gone in the last twelve years . |
| 3 | And there , only sixteen say they 're depressive er people , eighty four no but the great majority here have been depressed from time to time . |
| 4 | The same tenure seems to have been usual for officials in most lawcourts — except for the judges — and in such administrative departments as the Signet Office and the Privy Seal Office . |
| 5 | The racial card has been used to effect in previous New York elections , but in Mr Giuliani 's case he is being criticised as an opportunist for his attacks on the city 's first black Democratic nominee . |
| 6 | Decorative vaulting had been used to effect in England , but in Parler 's imaginative hands , first the crazy vault and then the net vault , reached their full potential . |
| 7 | The logic instantiated in this research design has been used to effect in some branches of psychology and medicine as a method for testing causal explanations . |
| 8 | Q Our daughter is nearly three and she 's been dry at night for over a year , but recently she 's started to wet the bed at night . |
| 9 | At this meeting the dauphin may have implied that the duke , whose reluctance to adopt a strongly anti-English stance was generally recognised , had been guilty of treason to the French crown . |
| 10 | Although Sontag ( 1979 ) may have been guilty of exaggeration in her claim that Benjamin 's most important influence came from surrealism , it is certain that he was enthusiastic about surrealism both as a movement in the arts and as often explicit politics . |
| 11 | ‘ The disciplinary committee found that Geoff Blackburn had been guilty of misconduct during the match . |
| 12 | If the judge awarded damages to the petitioner on the grounds that there was no compromise or that the compromise had been cancelled and on the grounds that the respondents had been guilty of misconduct in the Clearwater transaction , then the respondents could have appealed to the Court of Appeal and either party , losing before the Court of Appeal , could have appealed to the Privy Council as of right and on that appeal all three issues , the compromise issue , the cancellation issue and the misconduct issue could have been argued . |
| 13 | On July 7 protesters had claimed in Trinidad , the capital of Beni , that the US Drug Enforcement Agency ( DEA ) and the local anti-drug Umopar police had been guilty of abuses against the local population . |
| 14 | On that footing the taxi driver could have been guilty of larceny by a trick ( in old-fashioned terms ) , so as to be guilty of theft under any interpretation of section 1(1) . |
| 15 | Publication of the report by the Observer in March this year caused a furore and prompted a special committee of Law Lords to decide whether Lonrho had been guilty of contempt of court before its appeal to the House of Lords on the Fraser bid . |
| 16 | However he later went on , at p. 631 , to countenance the possibility that the defendant might have been guilty of extortion in insisting upon payment ‘ even without that species of duress , viz. the refusal to allow the party to exercise his legal right , but colore officii . ’ |
| 17 | So she had been right about Rebecca after all , she thought as they walked back towards the main part of the house . |
| 18 | The uprising continued along the same lines as the bread riots which had been rife in Russia at that time and so the Tsarina was worried but thinks everything will be alright and informed the Tsar , who was away inspecting troops , to this effect . |
| 19 | Interestingly , petrol has been lead-free in Tokyo since 1976 , while Mexican petrol has nearly the highest lead content in the world . |
| 20 | Walter had been friendly with David in England and when he came to Scotland , David granted him lands in Ayrshire , Renfrewshire , Argyll , Bute and the Lothians . |
| 21 | The complete plan , however , should have a surrounding portico or ambulatory , as would have been normal in temples of this type . |
| 22 | Throughout her life , she had been grateful to Somerville for teaching her to think and to write . |
| 23 | His motive for doing so is that he thinks that English verse has been ill-served by prosodists in the past . |
| 24 | For the first time , she thought that her life — wretched as it was — had been preferable to marriage with this man . |
| 25 | We had wanted two contrasting areas ( more than two would have been preferable of course in terms of the extent to which one could generalise from our findings but the projects would become expensive and it was acknowledged that we could not include more than two ) , and Ipswich and Newham were felt to fill this requirement . |
| 26 | Gordon suggested that the failure to find a left ear superiority for melodies , in contrast to Kimura 's ( 1964 ) results , might have been due to differences in the rhythm and/or pitch of the stimuli employed by himself and by Kimura . |
| 27 | Our adjustment for these confounding factors meant that any remaining differences in perinatal mortality rates were more likely to have been due to differences in the care received by patients . |
| 28 | Most of them had been due to efforts on the spot by units of the Red Army . |
| 29 | The village has a population of 6,000 ; 95 per cent of recent deaths have been due to cancers of various kinds . |
| 30 | At Forncett , the average rent per acre of lands leased was markedly lower in the fifteenth century than in the late fourteenth , although one can not tell from the published figures how far the fluctuations may have been due to variations in the quality of the particular pieces of land being leased at the time rather than to a general decline in rent levels . |