Example sentences of "it have been so [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | In fact it has been so hot and humid today that I have had to get an electric fan and put it on in my room . |
2 | In such a situation , ruling bodies , be it the WBO , WBA or WBC , are reluctant to take away a champion 's title when it has been so close . |
3 | In fact , Black South African writers are committed in trying to rewrite our history , our true history , because it has been so much misrepresented and twisted , and used against the people themselves . |
4 | ‘ It has been so long , and this must be Perdita . ’ |
5 | It has been so successful it is to carry on in a slimmed down form , with a new name Tees Valley Conference and Visitor Bureau under the control of the Northumbria Tourist Board . |
6 | It has been so rewarding for me to read about the happiness and freedom from the prison of obesity that is now enjoyed by so many . |
7 | However , it has been so dramatic that I think it would be difficult for us to say that it was due to anything but the dietary changes , especially in view of the double-blind trial . ’ |
8 | Power can not flow to empty desks ; which is why , in part , it has been so hard to devise a policy on Bosnia . |
9 | This point emphasises why it has been so difficult to control the overall cost of benefits , which depends on both the level of benefits provided and the number of people claiming them . |
10 | The only mystery is why it has been so neglected , and the only doubt concerns the quality of history taught in Ayrshire 's schools . |
11 | Perhaps because it has been so popular it has many common names , such as hag taper , Aaron 's rod , Adam 's flannel and torches . |
12 | He says It has all the ingredients that kids want jeopardy , death and destruction but it also has people saving lives and so the parents like it and that is why it has been so popular . |
13 | another big one as well But that one the other night I do n't mind it having been so big , because it was sort of helping my conscience |
14 | He 'd come round and it had been so nice , and we seemed to be so comfortable with each other , not just in bed you know , and it did n't occur to me we would n't do things together and see each other . |
15 | She was beginning to wish she had gone to the toilet again on the plane — it had been so nice and clean , and who knew when she would get another chance ? |
16 | It had been so nice , so comforting , having David beside her , knowing he sympathised with what she wanted . |
17 | Snodgrass embarked on a story about a very famous jewel called the Koh-i-noor , which he thought had once adorned a great King 's State Crown and explained how it had been so rare and so heavy that it had had to be kept locked away behind bars and guards , so that nobody could steal it . |
18 | For a long time after she had died , she had n't been able to think about her at all , it had been so awful , but now she could . |
19 | It had been so self-evident to Dalgliesh that the squad would need a senior woman detective that he had devoted his energy to choosing the right one , rather than to speculating how well she would fit into the team . |
20 | than if it had been so much inert luggage . |
21 | ‘ However , in fairness to him , after we 'd done ‘ The Daleks ’ and it had been so successful , Donald Wilson said to me , ‘ I clearly do n't know anything about this series , and you do , so I 'll leave you alone ’ , which was nice of him . ’ |
22 | It had been so successful , mon cher — the audience that first night was in rapture — that I thought it would run and run . |
23 | It had been a tiring day , largely because it had been so unproductive . |
24 | Frustrating or what — it had been so faint and so brief . |
25 | It had been so dry that two days under the warm sun had been enough without letting it stand in stooks or draping it on the hedges . |
26 | And it had been so good ! |
27 | She did n't want to get sad now , not now after it had been so good . |
28 | The honorary legal adviser to the Nationwide Festival of Light had criticised the deprave-and-corrupt test in The Daily Telegraph precisely because it had been so applied , arguing , in a plain man 's version of Lord Denning , that |
29 | Although there was a loud banging noise , it had been so regular that both of us had incorporated it into our dreams . |
30 | Giving Adam the chocolate bar , letting him tell her those rather dull facts about the sea defences , it had been so easy to forget what was going on — to feel he was just her little brother and everything was ordinary , normal . |