Example sentences of "have been [adj] [det] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His stage presence lately has been little more than a presence ; he seems happy to stand in the shadows , occupying his usual spot on the drum riser while the spotlight dances on Bez and Bez dances with Rowetta and Rowetta plays with her whip , a caricature bad girl playing with the bad boys . |
| 2 | This has been little more than an annotated table of contents of a programme that should extend to 1995 and culminate in WACC 's second World Congress . |
| 3 | ‘ I would remind you both , ’ said the abbot gently , ‘ that if she has been all this while consulting her own wishes , and imposing them upon us mortals , Saint Winifred is again on her own altar in our church . |
| 4 | Northamptonshire paid £1,000 in coat-and-conduct money alone , though as an inland shire its expenses on fortification would have been much less than Norfolk 's . |
| 5 | Can it really have been much more than an up-market doss-house ? |
| 6 | Do n't forget , I have lived here three months , and although I know the family to be close-fisted there can not have been much more than that . ’ |
| 7 | The Belfry PGA officials say profit from the match is around £800,000 although they admit this could have been much more if they had allowed in a greater volume of spectators for this , the first ever all-ticket clash . |
| 8 | But by then he had taken refuge in the church , and the service must have been little more than a conversation between him and old MacDiarmid , because not another soul had dared to run the gauntlet and go inside when the clock struck three . |
| 9 | Betrayers of the Truth might have been little more than a scientific rogues ' gallery and , as such , an entertaining if disillusioning read . |
| 10 | Sometimes , it is true , they must have been little more than what Marc Bloch described as ‘ l'endroit où on passe ’ ; but one may presume that efforts were made to drain long-distance roads and keep them clear of obstruction ; and kings and princes in several countries regarded the main roads as their roads . |
| 11 | McIllvanney had offered to let her stay on board Wavebreaker , so long as the boat 's air conditioners were disconnected , but his offer was not as generous as it seemed for Ellen would have been little more than an unpaid security guard and also subject to Bellybutton 's endlessly tedious suggestions , and she far preferred her small hot room in the busy crowded apartment block that smelt of cooking all day and marijuana all night . |
| 12 | Leibniz would have been little more than an impressionable fool in Kant 's eyes had the caterpillar that he treated with such consideration been a mere thing . |
| 13 | If so , the timber structure need have been little more than the simplest type of tailor 's dummy . |
| 14 | In this it may have been little more than a mouthpiece for a Russian directorate but in an article , which , says Sacks , amounted to a reading of the riot act to the ICP , one finds this clear and unmistakable instruction in the French journal Cahiers du Boishévisme : |
| 15 | Although only a few churches were listed in Domesday Book for Sussex , there must have been many more and the growth of towns and Wealden colonisation saw the establishment of a fixed parish system by the early thirteenth century . |
| 16 | We have achieved this to such an extent that had the Community Charge still been in operation it would have been 40 less than last year 's figure . |
| 17 | The news about the lady 's quiverful of kiddies does not seem to have been any more than a very temporary dose of saltpetre , and it 's worn off . |
| 18 | Before the marriage Maggie had been little more than a drudge round the house . |
| 19 | In the immediate post-war years , the Minister of Defence had been little more than the co-ordinator of the three autonomous Service Ministries and the Ministry of Supply . |
| 20 | The ‘ flak helpers ’ had been little more than children at the time of Hitler 's great ‘ triumphs ’ , and in the hail of bombs , the destruction , and the retreating armies , the remaining image of the Führer as the military genius bore scant relation to their daily experience of reality . |
| 21 | His magic , the magic of uncovering a man who had trod the land that I now trod , who died and was laid in the chalk 3,000 years ago , had been little more than pages in a notebook : another find in the ceaseless archaeological round . |
| 22 | After all , he was a serving liaison officer between the CIA and the White House , even if he had been little more than a sleeper for several years . |
| 23 | She had been little more than a child when I first saw her , but no-one could forget her beautiful , lively eyes . |
| 24 | The H3 building had been put up hastily in the early 1950s to get the scientists out of their first accommodation that had been little more than Nissen huts . |
| 25 | Even when they had been little more than babies he had started to corrupt them . |
| 26 | He had been little more than a boy then . |
| 27 | However , resistance on the part of the Uruguayan government to Soviet overtures in 1959 for a larger share of the market indicated that the agreement had been little more than a contingency measure on the part of Montevideo . |
| 28 | He claimed that her private world had been little more than an experiment in frenzy , and that a breakdown had been inevitable . |
| 29 | Since her return to England , her existence had been little more than a living nightmare . |
| 30 | The whole performance had been little more than a formality , to give an appearance of government by consensus . |