Example sentences of "have [been] [prep] [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Hopkins 's sister is a widow and has been for many a year , ’ the fellow replied . |
| 3 | ‘ I brought in the Readers ' Digests , ’ she muttered , unable to apply the brakes when she 'd been on such a powerful roll . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | How else would he have been with such a father ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | How many people could have been under such a constant strain , for so long ? |
| 9 | Do you think if he 'd been sent into hospital earlier he would n't have been in such a |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | " 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 . " |
| 12 | I was spellbound : I had never known anybody who had been to such a faraway country . |
| 13 | This was a task for which Wilson Jr , who had been at best an indifferent driver himself , was palpably unfitted . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The tension between them , the sexual feeling , had been at such a pitch . |
| 16 | It was significant that this terse declaration spoke only of the military aspects of what had been above all a social and political conflict . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A few of the teenage mothers in this book had been in such a home . |
| 19 | But he had been in such a degree of desperation because of his financial position . |
| 20 | When you 've been through this a few times you 'll |
| 21 | ‘ We 've been over this a hundred times already . |
| 22 | And that 's moved them no less than three places up the second division table , they 're higher than I think they 've been for many a long day . |
| 23 | Well , now I 've been past many a field of hay but it does n't smell like it used to in my young days . |
| 24 | I have been through such a storm before , and it is the gusting that is most dangerous . ’ |
| 25 | Even more exhilarating was the fact that already his ambitions as a choreographer were making progress : ‘ I have been in such a state lately ! |
| 26 | ‘ No , but it is not the first time I have been in such a situation . |
| 27 | hold a position of responsibility within the industry and have been in such a post for at least two years |