Example sentences of "[verb] been very [adj] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Passport Agency has been very successful this year in speeding up the processing of passport applications . |
| 2 | But he has been very loving this summer and much cast down by the failure of the Italian cause and I will not grudge him a livelier time of it in Rome . |
| 3 | He had been very kind this morning about the murder . |
| 4 | We 've been very busy this morning , making enquiries . |
| 5 | Yesterday , Ray Sunman , projects and administration manager for Darlington Borough Council , said : ‘ We have been very fortunate this year . |
| 6 | ‘ We have been very busy this week and hopefully the attendance will get close to Windsor 's 10,500 capacity , ’ said William Campbell of the IFA . |
| 7 | The Aussie boss insisted : ‘ You have one of the best sides in the world in Wigan and we have been very competitive this year — it 's not right . ’ |
| 8 | So it 's been very good this year . |