Example sentences of "[adv] been a very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has long been a very popular venue for cruise-ship parties , the descent to Monte or to Funchal being made by toboggan . |
| 2 | Erm , but it 's obviously been a very trying time for them . |
| 3 | ‘ This has not been a very good day , but at least I am still leading the championships , ’ said Mansell . |
| 4 | To my mum who along with my dad helped me my daughter , who I 'm very proud of as now she 's started taking greater interest in G M B. To my mum who at the moment does n't enjoy the best of health , who over the years has had to endure a daughter who , er , on some occasions has not been a very great help to her , has guided me through very difficult times , as mums always do . |
| 5 | But the purchasing power parity theorem has not been a very successful explanation over short periods because in practice large discre-pancies in real exchange rates have emerged . |
| 6 | Clearly the previous secretary had not been a very efficient worker — perhaps that was why Ven had dismissed her . |
| 7 | I myself would seemingly represent the environmental lobby , but there have been others , many ex-members of Harwell , who have been campaigning for a long time now , many years , to get these reactors shut down , and it has just been a very long slog , and eventually the truth has had to come to light to shut these reactors down . |
| 8 | ‘ The council has always been a very moderate spender in the past and we should be able to undertake new initiatives this year . |
| 9 | ‘ We have always been a very tired family , ’ Finch said loftily to Henry , both aged twenty-eight , Finch lying back in a large bed with his cello on his ex-girl friend 's pillow and Henry standing up by the gas fire . |
| 10 | He had always been a very religious man , which had helped him a lot in the Corporation . |
| 11 | ‘ 3D seismic data is critical for resolving subsurface uncertainty , but providing the data has always been a very slow and costly process , ’ he says . |
| 12 | ‘ And he 's always been a very busy man . ’ |
| 13 | Even at school , Liz had always been a very gifted painter . |
| 14 | Michael has always been a very hard worker and has filled every minute of every day with activity . |
| 15 | But in many ways you 've always been a very old-fashioned girl . |
| 16 | Since I 've been involved in er , in the partnerships we 've always tried to have a joint number one with Three Hills and Church Langley as I explained before and it 's always been a very difficult balancing act you know , to keep both going along . |
| 17 | Mr Steinberg had also been a very busy man when the other candidates debated the health service but , as a former headmaster , had found time to attend the education debate . |
| 18 | She had clearly been a very good-looking woman when younger , and even now was handsome ; paradoxically , the artifices she employed to emphasise this were the very features to strike a false note . |
| 19 | It did indeed prove a momentous day — and a momentous speech as well : but it lay in a future that none could foresee , and for the moment all that poor Hazel could do was to turn aside with the disappointed feeling that after all , his part in the crossing of the heather had not really been a very important one . |
| 20 | It has n't been a very good day for me . ’ |
| 21 | Just sort of er telling Frank he has n't been a very good friend and things . |
| 22 | Investment banking although this year it 's a very different difficult environment for investment banking particularly a house that concentrates on , on corporate finance er there has n't been a great deal of M and A activity and if , if there has it has n't been a very high erm very high ticket . |
| 23 | In Britain , despite the development of forms of democratic political institutions , the idea of an independent and consequential public opinion had never been a very serious consideration . |
| 24 | The Church of England is also responsible for some homes , but unmarried mothers have never been a very popular cause for charity funding , and therefore these often depend mainly on local funding . |
| 25 | Insulating homes well has until fairly recently been a very low priority , both for housebuilders and for the legislators who frame the Building Regulations . |
| 26 | There has recently been a very considerable interest in the effects of mood on memory , see for example the volume of papers edited by Kuiken ( 1991 ) . |
| 27 | There had recently been a very bad storm , leaving mud everywhere , and it seemed the sewers had overflowed in Saffron Hill , for the filth was worse than she had ever seen it . |