Example sentences of "[adv] they [verb] been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so they have been very useful for giving extra pressure on the farm 's subsoiler and home-made 3.6m ( 12ft ) pasture aerator . |
| 2 | Normally they 've been pretty good . |
| 3 | Just now they had been utterly careless about the noise they made in the hay . |
| 4 | " Gabon is specially significant because it probably now has more elephants than any other African country , and so far they have been relatively undisturbed by poachers . |
| 5 | Well they 've been very direct and they 've been having to make me think a lot about what I 'm doing . |
| 6 | Close-to and without their performance wigs , these two hardly seemed to connect with anyone that she 'd seen out on the stage less than an hour before ; then they 'd been all front , carnival vamps , not so much real human beings as fantasy figures with hidden human operators . |
| 7 | Since then they have been both warmer and colder , with oscillations of the order of 1–2°C about annual mean temperatures . |
| 8 | It is a picture of self-respecting and self-reliant people whose expectations were pitifully modest , who knew they could be worse off , who perhaps remembered times when they had been even poorer , but who were always haunted by the spectre of poverty ( as they understood the term ) . |
| 9 | Two misfits together , he had confided to his parents ; yet they had been extremely successful . |
| 10 | They had hosted their own shoot at Dolphinton where they had been less successful . |
| 11 | They had hosted their own shoot at Dolphinton where they had been less successful . |
| 12 | I 've always found the men that I 've worked with either it has made no difference that I was a woman so far as I was aware , or else they 've been very helpful . |
| 13 | They 'd no idea why they 'd been so sick . |
| 14 | I find the serenity of mainstream forecasters in the face of their debâcle discreditable because they now gravely confuse the public discussion as they go on popping up with one optimistic forecast after another , without any meaningful explanation as to why they have been so wrong . |
| 15 | Although councils have often been appointed to sit on the boards , more recently they have been more open to direct local authority involvement : in the case of Sheffield in 1988 , for example , there was a substantial degree of negotiation over representation from the start . |
| 16 | The authors quoted above , Brewer and Hills , stated that ‘ It is significant that there are few references to evaluation in the literature of reader instruction and until very recently they have been virtually non-existent ’ . |