Example sentences of "[adv] been [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BA 's strength has long been its profitable routes across the North Atlantic . |
| 2 | Our entrepreneurial drive has long been our distinguishing trait . |
| 3 | She woke up in bed with a man with a red beard , but from the snide remarks and sideways looks of those fellow guests who were still there in the morning gathered that he had not been her only partner of the night . |
| 4 | And last night Trevor Bush , Loganair 's technical chief executive , said yesterday had not been their best day . |
| 5 | In general , it has been accepted that people can take on part-time work in this way if it has not been their usual employment pattern . |
| 6 | In general , it has been accepted that people can take on part-time work in this way if it has not been their usual employment pattern . |
| 7 | In general , it has been accepted that people can take on part-time work in this way if it has not been their usual employment pattern . |
| 8 | Unionists are also taken aback but Fermanagh-South Tyrone MP Ken Maginnis said : ‘ It has not been my personal experience that the RUC Special Branch gambles with the lives of potential IRA victims . |
| 9 | It had not been my direct responsibility to purchase it and I was operating in a field where everyone else — the companies from which I might buy , those from which we now bought , and the management of the division — was an expert . |
| 10 | That of course had not been his prime reason for going to Rhodes . |
| 11 | By all accounts , or at least by his wife 's , that had not been his first concern . |
| 12 | In fact Irina at the cottage door had not been his first sighting . |
| 13 | Stewards said Charlie 's penalty would have been harsher had it not been his first race . |
| 14 | He had travelled back to Keswick with her even though it had not been his previous intention to do so . |
| 15 | However , this had not been his original intention . |
| 16 | When other girls , jealous of her looks and the doors they opened for her , jealous especially of the way the boys flocked after her , made spiteful remarks , Sally had always been her fiercest champion . |
| 17 | Even music , which had always been her ultimate solace , failed to take her mind off him . |
| 18 | You might feel a spontaneous urge to buy a particular present for a loved one and then find it has always been their secret wish . |
| 19 | John Lennon has always been my main man . |
| 20 | Adelaide and I were never blessed with children , but it has always been my dearest wish to have a family . ’ |
| 21 | No wonder she 's always been my favourite cousin . |
| 22 | ‘ This has always been my favourite room , ’ says Mary Jane , ‘ and it 's turned out to be a perfect playroom for Emily and her friends . |
| 23 | But I 've always been my own man and I do n't bullshit . |
| 24 | He was not an intellectual ; he made constant use of anecdotal evidence and some of his views bordered on the banal , but one of his great strengths has always been his resolute attachment to a few simple conservative themes . |
| 25 | Dylan 's voice has always been his greatest asset , carrying a huge range of emotions . |
| 26 | Dance has always been his first love and in recent years he 's been on tour six times with his own company . |
| 27 | Economics had always been his strong point , and his family had expected him to go into Parliament . |
| 28 | We 've done this with humour , intelligence , a sense of joy , magic and fun , which have always been our essential ingredients . |
| 29 | It had always been our special place from childhood . |
| 30 | The following Sunday Pat Muldoon stood in what had formerly been his local church at Gross Pointe , Michigan , and sang to the heavens , ‘ If I can help somebody , as I go along , then my living will not be in vain … . ’ without paying the slightest attention to the meaning of the words . |