Example sentences of "been [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court said obiter that the accused would have been guilty even if the police had shot dead an innocent bystander , though the actual victim was innocent too . |
| 2 | ‘ Charles ’ had been friendly ever since Hazards Ltd had got him out of a jam in the D Saceur affair . |
| 3 | SIR JACOB : " T would have been strange indeed if someone had not translated this fine flower from the dunghill to the garden , Madam , let me tell you you are the first lady I have seen who has exceeded expectation . |
| 4 | The 102nd Russian submarine fleet at Petropavlovsk has been alert ever since the international courts overruled the Soviet appeals and gave GenTech the right to conduct its surveys in the area . |
| 5 | The appeal of natural beauty may have been strong precisely because it was free of argument and doctrine ; it became a common denominator in the drive for moral and spiritual recovery . |
| 6 | According to the Police Federation Anna McGurk might well have been alive today but for the Bail Act of 1976 . |
| 7 | ‘ I could say without doubt that this lady would have been alive today if she had not taken drugs at that party . ’ |
| 8 | Only recently , Indian organisations such as the Shuar Federation have persuaded the government to grant legal titles to communal Indian land holdings , and in some cases this has been possible only after foreign volunteers have carried out the necessary land surveys . |
| 9 | The big surge in investment has been possible only because of the liberalisation policies pursued by the Government . |
| 10 | For some farmers and landowners the major impact of the newcomers has therefore been political rather than social , for their arrival in the village has ensured that landownership is no longer the automatic passport to the political domination of the countryside that it was once considered to be . |
| 11 | It must be confessed that it is really difficult to pinpoint the precise locations of these ancient workings , which , at that time may have been little else than shallow holes on the outcrops . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , the saving of water this system would have produced as compared with normal lockage would have been little more than 50 per cent , a benefit that would hardly justify the installation of the lift if water saving was the main object . |
| 13 | He does what he has to do in situations of moral dilemma , though he knows it to be wrong , because to act differently would have been wrong also though not in the same way . |
| 14 | Having caused the longest recession since the 1930s , does the Prime Minister agree with the words of his right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer , who said last month : ’ the policy would not have been different even if we had known the outcome . ’ ? |
| 15 | " I wish things had been different so that we could have made love just once . |
| 16 | However , the effect has been cathartic rather than catastrophic . |
| 17 | He still wore his expression of vacuous merriment , which must have been habitual rather than assumed in my honour . |
| 18 | This French anti-Semitic tradition has always been cultural rather than racial , Gallic ‘ purity ’ resting on a vision of ‘ national integrity ’ . |
| 19 | His correspondence with the queen , while it may confute accusations of lasciviousness , reveals the poverty of his courtier mind ; his main concern and topic was the health of the royal couple and his bond with Maria Luisa seems to have been hypochondriacal rather than sexual in nature . |
| 20 | He had been nervous enough when the name of the Twenty-fourthers was first mentioned . |
| 21 | I was never really happy about the explanation but I had no proof of my own misgivings about it and anyway I would n't have known where to start looking even if I 'd been convinced then that she was alive . ’ |
| 22 | It was fairly clear that there was going to be some smuggling as well but , even allowing for the often-repeated story that other ships lay over the horizon and sent boats in to add to the stock on board the single ship , the net profits from the ship could hardly have been much more than twice those of the slave-trading . |
| 23 | And that judgement of mine is as much universalizable , as binding on my future judgements about relevantly similar cases , as if the example had been real rather than merely imaginary . |
| 24 | At the same time , funding has been insecure so that voluntary organisations are being encouraged to sell their expertise in order to fund their activities . |
| 25 | Perhaps that role for the Scottish TUCC is being rejected because on many occasions it has been reactive rather than taking the initiative . |
| 26 | The professional role has been minimal , and , where it has been relevant has been facilitative rather than directive or initiating . |
| 27 | No , no , you 've been lucky there but |
| 28 | Helen had confessed at lunch that she would sooner have been three behind than three in front — and when news came , after the first 10 holes of the fourth round , that she had fallen one to the rear of the Australian , one had the feeling that she was merely paving the way for a last-minute attack . |
| 29 | This number of casualties over a period of a few days would have been exceptional even when the mujahideen guerrillas were fighting the communists . |
| 30 | Liza said something about having been ill so that she herself did n't go out much . |