Example sentences of "been [adj] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That would have been absurd because the word , ‘ converts , ’ itself implied that the bailee had done something with the bailed goods which was not authorised by the terms of the bailment . |
| 2 | She would have been asleep if the fly had not returned to her hand . |
| 3 | Duncan had been asleep when the policeman burst into the room to give him the news that Leeming had been found . |
| 4 | Mr Smith , they added , had been depressed since the death of his father 11 years ago , and he found it hard to work the farm alone . |
| 5 | The method had found unburnt paraffin in the person 's lungs , thus suggesting that the person had inhaled paraffin and so been alive when the fire started . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm told that he may still have been alive when the murderer , or murderers , hammered the shaft through his neck and into the floor of the hut . |
| 7 | This has been possible because the phrase ‘ sufficient interest ’ is very vague and leaves it largely up to the courts to decide what interests are sufficient . |
| 8 | This significant increase in industrial concentration through merger activity would not have been possible if the government had been operating a tough anti-merger policy . |
| 9 | A much smoother implementation of this system would have been possible if the team had been involved much earlier and/or more forward planning for computerisation had been possible . |
| 10 | Tess had been calm since the baptism and she remained calm . |
| 11 | The specific policies and rhetoric have been different as the occasion demanded . |
| 12 | It would have been different if the trapdoor had been the actual door of the furnace ; or if the coffin had been dragged by visible human operatives ; or if it had gone smoothly , as by the hand of God or the power of irresistible mechanical principles . |
| 13 | The result might perhaps have been different if the money was in a collecting box . |
| 14 | The court commented that the situation could have been different if the property concerned was of a very high value , or of an unusual nature , ( eg industrial property ) so as to impose too great a risk upon the surveyor if he accepted liability . |
| 15 | Ward , the world No 2 looking forward to being packaged as ‘ Dazzling Daz ’ , has been unemployed since the sale of his father 's butchery business and still lives with his parents . |
| 16 | ‘ This indulgence by journalists and sadly a small number of politicians has been transparent since the shadow cabinet elections in August . ’ |
| 17 | In the past decade , it has never been clear whether the Government have found satisfying their own political philosophy more important than satisfying the training needs of the nation . |
| 18 | Secondly , a continuing and , in some ways , irresolvable problem is how to balance the twin aims of conservation and recreation since , despite the Sandford recommendations , it has not always been clear where the emphasis should be ( Cripps 1980 ) . |
| 19 | Holly Park , once the home of South Liverpool FC , has been empty since the club gave up the battle against vandals in 1990 . |
| 20 | The Holly Park site in Garston has been empty since the club gave up the battle against vandals in 1990 . |
| 21 | ‘ The directors have been impotent because the deal was between Martin Edwards and Michael Knighton . |
| 22 | It was clear from the sentences imposed on the other defendants , one of whom was sentenced to three years ' imprisonment , that the sentencer considered that a longer sentence would have been appropriate if the appellant had been over 21 . |
| 23 | The taxi ride from the airport to the little village where she was staying , only six kilometres from Nice , had been uncomfortable because the air-conditioning in the car had broken down three days before her arrival and was waiting to be repaired , and all in all her last vestiges of good humour had finally bitten the dust as she 'd stood in front of the house and realised that it had n't finished being built . |
| 24 | Fritz Moeri , one of five people charged in the trial of company officials which began on 18 April , has told New Scientist that the disaster would have been impossible if the system he built in 1970 had not been modified and if ‘ fashionable ’ exhaust valves had not been added at the insistence of company management . |
| 25 | Such a result may have been unthinkable when the competition began , but the Ukrainian side looked forlornly unmotivated in their 5–0 defeat by Benfica a fortnight ago and must now manage without midfielders Yuri Moroz and Sergei Zaets , plus the defender , Anatoli Bessmertnyi — all suspended . |
| 26 | Hampstead had already brought her sharply into his mind — that had been obvious when the name had leapt into view on our arrival . |
| 27 | The evidence shows that this may well be a case in which failures by the ambulance service to provide an ambulance more quickly to a person who was in extremis was a cause of the death which might have been avoidable if the ambulance had been available earlier . |
| 28 | The Court of Appeal held that the buyer dealt as a consumer , so that the clause was inapplicable ; however , Dillon LJ , obiter , suggested that had the buyer not been dealing as a consumer , the clause would have been reasonable because the buyer ( 1 ) was " ex hypothesi dealing in the course of business and [ the managing director ] was not devoid of commercial experience " and ( 2 ) the supplier was a hire purchase company , not a dealer , and had never had possession of or inspected the car . |
| 29 | The matron of a residential home , talking about a doctor who she felt was reluctant to visit said it would have been helpful if the person who died had been visited more often : ‘ It would have given her a lot more comfort and the staff a lot more confidence . ’ |
| 30 | It would have been helpful if the report 's compilers had included a clinical virologist . |