Example sentences of "have [been] [prep] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This book is for Ear'ole , who has been as enthusiastic about my shop as she has been about all the other things that I have tackled , and then begged her to help with . |
| 2 | Anyone who has been to such a gathering knows that the fun-loving atmosphere of these occasions is not ideal to hammer home messages about personal safety . |
| 3 | ‘ Hopkins 's sister is a widow and has been for many a year , ’ the fellow replied . |
| 4 | I see Chummy has been round all the desks . ’ |
| 5 | What especially pleases me is that we are extraordinarily popular and that Wolfgang is admired here even more than he has been in all the other towns of Italy ; the reason is that Bologna is the centre and dwelling-place of many masters , artists and scholars . |
| 6 | ‘ I brought in the Readers ' Digests , ’ she muttered , unable to apply the brakes when she 'd been on such a powerful roll . |
| 7 | It was the first time she 'd been in such a grand vehicle , and when she looked over the side she seemed so high up she was dizzy . |
| 8 | The potential advantage of more frequent dosing would have been at most a rather small one therefore and would not have changed the main conclusions of this study . |
| 9 | How else would he have been with such a father ? |
| 10 | This is not , as it might have been with such a tale , the cuckolded merchant , but rather Margery , the stupid wife , who is particularly funny because she is so unthinkingly conventionally good and who effaces any real self she may be imagined to have within a cluster of clichés . |
| 11 | How many people could have been under such a constant strain , for so long ? |
| 12 | Supposing that the essential words conferring the primacy on all successive archbishops of Canterbury were in fact in the letters which Lanfranc mentioned , why did he go on at such length about the facts drawn from Bede , when a single quotation from one of the passages granting the primacy in perpetuity to the archbishops of Canterbury would have been worth all the rest of his argument put together ? |
| 13 | If the contract had been ‘ straightforward ’ then it would have been worth half the £1.31 million that he was to be paid . |
| 14 | Do you think if he 'd been sent into hospital earlier he would n't have been in such a |
| 15 | The conduct had also to be intended to provoke a breach of the peace or to have been of such a nature as to have been likely to have occasioned such a breach . |
| 16 | " Employment on the railways as in other sections of the transport industry can not be said to have been of such a character as to fit in with the theory of labour aristocracy . " |
| 17 | Legislative power in the State of Cambodia ( SOC ) , a name adopted in April 1989 by what had been since 1979 the People 's Republic of Kampuchea [ for previous names see p. 37289 ] , is vested in the National Assembly . |
| 18 | I was spellbound : I had never known anybody who had been to such a faraway country . |
| 19 | She had been to all the parentcraft classes , and had not learnt a thing . ’ |
| 20 | Only with an effort did those who had been to all the other parties locate one another and separate themselves from the mob . |
| 21 | I had been on all the northern capitals . |
| 22 | This was a task for which Wilson Jr , who had been at best an indifferent driver himself , was palpably unfitted . |
| 23 | For most of the leaders among the Owenites the distinction only showed itself in their recognition that the Bill had done nothing for working people ; that since the prime need , as they saw it , was to act directly to remove the evils of a system which grievously oppressed the lives of working people , the Bill had been at best an irrelevance , at worst a distraction . |
| 24 | The tension between them , the sexual feeling , had been at such a pitch . |
| 25 | It was significant that this terse declaration spoke only of the military aspects of what had been above all a social and political conflict . |
| 26 | Her employers had been in general the aspiring mothers of young daughters of tradesmen — the honest working citizens whom her father would have disparagingly stigmatised as ‘ cits ’ — hoping that a little of Theda 's quality might rub off on their uncouth girls to help them to an advantageous marriage . |
| 27 | He was more frightened than he had been in all the time he had been with them , and he could tell that the girl was frightened too , by her quick , shallow breathing . |
| 28 | It had been in all the national papers , but news is quickly forgotten , and at that time Willi must have been mourning his wife , trying to cope with loneliness and a small son , submerged in his own misery . |
| 29 | Since Christmas day her feelings for him had been in such a chaotic state she did n't know whether she loved or hated him . |
| 30 | A few of the teenage mothers in this book had been in such a home . |