Example sentences of "been [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The schoolmaster looked out of the window across the square to the castle where he announced to the class that the flag was flying at half-mast , so he popped out to find out why , thinking it might have been dear old Queen Mary . |
| 2 | There had been strong anti-JNA feeling in Slovenia since the notorious 1988 trial of journalists and a warrant officer accused of illegally disclosing secret plans for a military clampdown against Slovene liberals [ see pp. 36374 ; 36663 ] . |
| 3 | It can certainly be passed on by kissing , and there has recently been strong epidemiological evidence that CMV infection can be sexually transmitted . |
| 4 | Salvador Nava , 77 , an independent who had been the opposition coalition candidate in the gubernatorial election , was in the 12th day of a protest march from San Luis Potosí to Mexico City to expose what he said had been extensive electoral fraud . |
| 5 | There has been extensive theoretical discussion about how this affects the Kolmogorov result , suggesting that with n a little larger than 5/3 but not exactly known . |
| 6 | The oil minister , Gholamreza Aghazadeh , had declared the previous day that ‘ the US and its allies have been guiding certain oil producers in the ‘ conspiracy ’ to bring prices down' . |
| 7 | There has also been direct military involvement , in Northern Ireland since 1969 and in London in 1980 with the spectacular lifting of the siege at the Iranian embassy by the Special Air Service ( SAS ) . |
| 8 | Outside the EC there has been direct scientific collaboration with scientists in California , in Memphis , Tennessee , and in Moscow . |
| 9 | NOT even the most imaginative of San Diego Chargers fans would have been entertaining Super Bowl thoughts after the team lost their first four games . |
| 10 | But the main focus has been networked distributed computing , which does n't provide the same levels of performance or fault-resilience — and it 's in this aspect that the Sequent customers are most interested . |
| 11 | Claire has been Scottish Open champion three times , National Champion seven times and is the only person to have won the under 16s and under 19s in the same season . |
| 12 | Avoiding the copyright-protected names of bears that have been British National newspaper features for decades was quite easy for innovative owners of the new skydiving brood . |
| 13 | I liked to think it was because they thought he 'd failed , that our survival in the mountains had been his humiliation , but I would have to admit this might have been mere wishful thinking . |
| 14 | The PBS , which came to power soon after its formation in 1985 , gained most of its support from the mainly Christian Kadazan ethnic group and from the Chinese ; however , the party also made some inroads into what had previously been USNO-controlled Moslem constituencies . |
| 15 | Five others had been unsuccessful Parliamentary candidates , three of them being Conservatives . |
| 16 | Penelope Lord ( Mrs Baines ) since 1988 has been Principal Clinical Psychologist with the North Devon Health Authority , based in Barnstaple . |
| 17 | For as long as I can remember , it has been standard medical teaching that teething of babies causes no symptoms . |
| 18 | There have been distinct evolutionary changes in the focus , style and methodology of evaluation . |
| 19 | In a variation on this feat , the bull-leaper performed the ‘ Diving Leap ’ from a vantage point ; the large , stepped stone block in the north-west corner of the Bull Court at Phaistos was probably used for this purpose , and there may have been similar free-standing vaulting blocks at Knossos and Mallia . |
| 20 | India 's 100m Muslim population has reacted widespread demonstrations in support of Saddam Hussein , and there have been similar large- scale protests in Indonesia , Malaysia , and Bangladesh . |
| 21 | Slavery and imperial domination have been crucial social forces in the emergence of a modern world order , characterized by the striking inequalities which provide the essential backdrop to an understanding of the post-Second World War migrations of black communities to Britain , and which continue to generate migratory pressures on peoples from the Third World . |
| 22 | Although promotion slipped from our grasp early on , our fight for survival over the last seven months has been real nail-biting stuff . |
| 23 | Cardinal Johannes Willebrands , head of the Vatican Secretariat for Christian Unity , said : ‘ There has been real ecclesial community . |
| 24 | It ca n't be any coincidence that the women he has gone out with have been typical English roses with titles , and the Duchess tops the lot . |
| 25 | Thus what would once have been typical neurotic conflicts between the ego and the id are much more likely to present themselves today as delinquency and compulsive acting-out . |
| 26 | Where there has been serious political conflict , schoolgirls have often been involved in protests and boycotts . |
| 27 | There have been serious methodological limitations to much of the research implicating personality factors in anorexia nervosa . |
| 28 | If this had been ordinary civil litigation I would have agreed . |
| 29 | While his predecessors had been ordinary royal humans . |
| 30 | They have been prominent reef-building organisms too , often in association with bryozoans . |