Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] it have [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | CS : ‘ You can say all you like , but it 's clear that soul music is more popular than it has ever been , worldwide . ’ |
| 2 | When Travis seemed in need of another stiff drink , Sebastian served him liberally and , Travis 's tongue more free than it had ever been , he spoke of his love for Rosemary , his wish to marry her , but how because of her sense of propriety she would n't even let him take her out , or so much as mention her name to his family . |
| 3 | The last quality is interesting because it has sometimes been suggested that his music-making lacks humour , one of those generalizing statements that , typically , posits a judgement without bothering to examine the evidence . |
| 4 | If the conscience indicates to the individual , child or adult , that he must reject a proposed action which his teaching tells him is wrong because it has not been incorporated into the Created God by the process advocated , or has been classified as evil , then that is the action of a healthy conscience . |
| 5 | Monarchy became itinerant as it had not been since the Middle Ages , but the reason for this was not administrative but political and diplomatic . |
| 6 | LEFT : Malswick Mill , still complete although it has not been worked since the 1950s , is part of a farm . |
| 7 | Section 119 provides that a company if so authorised by its articles may : ( a ) make arrangements on an issue of shares for a difference between shareholders in the amounts or times of payments of calls ; ( b ) accept the whole or part of the amount remaining unpaid although it has not been called up ; or ( c ) pay a dividend in proportion to the amount paid up on each share where a larger amount is paid up on some shares than on others . |
| 8 | The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 , the sub committee bill of rights and seniority reform all helped to break the power of committee chairmen in the House of Representatives while other changes , including public and recorded voting , plus new rules decreeing open committee meetings , except in special circumstances , had the effect of making the House more open and accessible than it had ever been before . |
| 9 | Despite his defeat , Labour is more homogeneous than it has ever been . |
| 10 | It was set in a triumphant smile , a smile that would have been smug if it had not been so full of the purest metaphysical good humour . |
| 11 | He would have felt nervous if it had n't been raining . |
| 12 | For about four centuries the rulers of England had been trying to conquer and rule France , Scotland , and Ireland , but they had just lost their last foothold in France at Calais , their position in Ireland was as insecure as it had ever been , and the Scottish problem had taken an altogether new turn because Mary the Queen of Scotland could present a good claim to the English throne . |
| 13 | Travis carried her outside , then back to bed when she called , handling her with a care that would have made her feel cherished if it had n't been so impersonal . |
| 14 | As far as the First Pillar — the defence of the British Isles — was concerned , the country was , paradoxically , more secure and yet more vulnerable than it had ever been . |
| 15 | Because computer memory was prohibitively expensive and the machines terribly slow ( at least by today 's standards ) it was impossible for the compositor to see what was being typeset until it had all been processed . |
| 16 | This is called precession of the perihelion , and is not in itself curious because it had long been known that precession of the perihelion is one result of the gravitational influence on a planet 's orbit of all the other planets in the Solar System . |
| 17 | The South Bank Show is as good as it has ever been — serious , humane and unstuffy — though its theme tune now sounds is beginning to sound jolly dated . |
| 18 | His anatomising of male desire is as sure as it has ever been . |
| 19 | Sam King in Sounds said : ‘ No concessions at all — the bass is as bossy as ever , a constantly straining leash of rhythm , while Gedge 's guitar is as irritating as it 's always been . ’ |
| 20 | The course would have been incomplete if it had only been about these technical matters , fascinating as they are . |
| 21 | The relief on Joe 's face would have been comic if it had n't been so worrying . |
| 22 | Landscape painting is flourishing in Scotland today , artists resident , their subject matter possibly more valued than it has ever been with so much ‘ green ’ and wilderness awareness . |
| 23 | Human beings may become redundant , but the penis will be more essential than it has ever been . |
| 24 | A marriage is so voidable if it has not been consummated because of the incapacity of either party , or because of one party 's wilful refusal to consummate it ; if the marriage was entered into without the consent of either party ( e.g. by reason of duress , mistake , or unsound mind ) ; if at the time of the marriage one party was suffering from mental disorder of such a kind as to render him or her unfitted for marriage , or from venereal disease ; or if the wife was at the time of the marriage pregnant by some other person than her husband . |
| 25 | That would have been comical if it had n't been so downright offensive . |
| 26 | Just for a moment their fingers touched , then broke apart as they both stepped back with a haste that would have been comical if it had n't been for the sudden surge of sensation that arced between them . |
| 27 | However , as a very occasional desperation measure if a flower or leaf is useless because it has inadvertently been creased or folded , I have been known to try pressing it with an iron on the lowest setting . |
| 28 | But since the principle of indiscernibles remained in force in his theory , there was no means of telling two identical complexes apart in any case , and the whole idea of particularity remained as obscure as it had ever been . |
| 29 | Paolo Uccello would have been the most delightful and imaginative genius since Giotto that had adorned the art of painting , if he had devoted as much pains to figures and animals as he did to questions of perspective , for , although these are ingenious and good in their way , yet an immoderate devotion to them causes an infinite waste of time , fatigues nature , clogs the mind with difficulties , and frequently renders it sterile where it had previously been fertile and facile . |
| 30 | For a moment , Julia could not bear even to look at her , but at the sound of Comfort 's voice , as gentle as it had ever been , Julia opened her eyes properly . |