Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should 've been here yesterday fore . |
| 2 | Should 've been here yesterday forenoon ! , |
| 3 | must 've been already off though |
| 4 | And then the next biggest then well Howar would 've been somewhere about sixty acre and Kilbest was roughly about the same I think . |
| 5 | He wou he would 've been down there . |
| 6 | You 'd 've been better off to have been booked in here for a good night 's sleep and then driven up the next day but then you 're virtually sort of getting up there turning round and coming back are n't you ? |
| 7 | It would have been a great deal more difficult because military aircraft use more volatile fuel , and they tend to be armed , they tend to be carrying things that civil aircraft do n't normally carry , so yes , it would 've been much more difficult . |
| 8 | If they had questioned it the chances of the orders being carried out would 've been much less of course . |
| 9 | Oh Charlie shut her up at , at Chris 's mums funeral , when we went to Chris 's mum funeral , she 's erm , she said something or other about , request something or other about , pointing at the I should n't 've been there really because I did n't know her and Charlie said she felt did n't know her and erm she said oh well Rose never spoke about her , or words to that effect , Chris says the reason our mum never spoke about her cos she never showed her face in here anyway , he said when was the last time you see your mum , at that , she shut straight up like that , her face went , she 'd like saying that I should n't 've been there cos I did n't know her , I mean yet , she ai n't set foot in the house for fucking year like , you know she 's a horrible cow , and like when we went in the church , when we went in the crematorium er you had , she had a nice , big one up on the hill is it Arnold 's ? |
| 10 | Never before had the images of the great and respected been so irreverently and so widely circulated . |
| 11 | I suspect , indeed , that the whole process of evolution , from remote resemblance to near perfect mimicry , has gone on , rather rapidly , many times over in different insect groups , during the whole long period that bird vision has been just about as good as it is today . |
| 12 | The slow down in the rate of growth in the Eurocurrency market-growth that has been just about static since the early 1980's — can perhaps be attributed to the fact that domestic markets have become increasingly deregulated , while the foreign currency activities of domestic banks have become increasingly regulated by domestic central banks . |
| 13 | It did n't take him long to master the basics of what British Steel was all about and he has been just as versatile in acquiring an understanding of a diverse range of other businesses , from computers and oil drilling to knitwear machines . |
| 14 | At the same time the decline of the small manufacturing firm has been just as dramatic . |
| 15 | The issue of nuclear and chemical weapons has been just as embattled as that of the Kurds , but this time the protagonists were the UN and the Iraqi government . |
| 16 | The response to these lists , however , has been also quite variable ( fig 2 ) , ranging from some districts supplying information on over 80% of the infants listed to one with an 8% response . |
| 17 | It has been on before . |
| 18 | At secondary level , where provision in the colonial period was extremely limited , the expansion has been even more spectacular , with the number of schools increasing from 177 to 1,502 and the number of pupils by 950 per cent . |
| 19 | ‘ Since David died politics has been even more important to me . |
| 20 | BT has been even more ruthless in scything out swathes of middle managers . |
| 21 | The idea that the educational achievements of black students can be explained by genetically inherited lower intellectual ability relative to whites , as measured by IQ tests , has been even more vigorously challenged , with Kamin providing one of the most effective critiques ( Kamin , 1977 ) . |
| 22 | The fact that this was the first downsizing show to be held in Japan is in itself an indication of the major change taking place in the Japanese computer market , which has been even more mainframe-centric than the US and Europe , and indicates the strong power of the economics of small computing . |
| 23 | Chantler noted , however , in 1952 , that ‘ the current investment review has been even more fantastic than its predecessors if that were possible ’ , and it was not until 1953 that the Treasury had worked out a new system of investment control . |
| 24 | The shift from manufacturing to service industries has been even more marked in terms of jobs : in 1950 manufacturing employed 35 per cent of the total in civil employment but this had fallen to 26 per cent by 1981 ; at the same time , jobs in the service sector rose from 47 per cent to 60 per cent of total employment . |
| 25 | This trend has been even more marked for rural areas ; figure 6.1 shows a decline of some 29 per cent in passenger journeys by rural buses between 1965 and 1975 . |
| 26 | That finding is certainly borne out in the United Kingdom , where the shift to a less progressive tax structure has been even more evident than in the United States ( Hills , 1988 ) . |
| 27 | In child care the movement towards specialisation has been even more marked , and child protection teams , for example , are now the norm in local authorities . |
| 28 | Does the Minister agree that the confidence of the people has been even more shaken by the tragedy in the prison at which a bomb went off , killing two remand prisoners ? |
| 29 | Craig Parry , the 23 year-old chunky Australian , was deprived of last year 's Rookie of the Year title on a Tour ruling — a player had not to be a member of another Tour — having finished in 24th place on the Order of Merit from only 14 starts , but this year his form has been even more impressive . |
| 30 | Fire security measures are continually updated and improved so that the chance of fire has been even further reduced . |