Example sentences of "[been] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been dead a week before they realized he was n't breathing . |
| 2 | Even just now , when for a moment she had not been able to remember what day it was , and when Faith Lavender had already been dead a week . |
| 3 | His father 's been dead a long time and he has-had — two brothers . ’ |
| 4 | ( I 'm pretty certain I never believed that one , I mean the guy had been dead a week , for Pete 's sake . |
| 5 | Darren had been dead a couple of months ; I had fallen out with my father and I 'd been in London for most of the summer , staying with Aunt Ilsa and her long-term companion , whose only name appeared to be Mr Gibbon , which I thought made him sound like a cat for some reason … |
| 6 | ‘ She 's been dead a very long time , has n't she ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I only took a quick look , he 'd been dead a long time , it was n't nice , and yet — it looked like Uncle Mosse . ’ |
| 8 | looks at its long history , in which the last five years have been arguably the most dramatic , part of a transformation which is by no means over . |
| 9 | He had been right the first time . |
| 10 | THE gap between Absolute Beginners and Earth Girls Are Easy seems to have been rather a long one . |
| 11 | There had been rather a mystery as to why he should have died at that particular time . |
| 12 | Traditionally , he has been rather a mysterious figure with most of the audience seeing only his back . |
| 13 | I 'm sure it must have been rather a strain to keep pretending an interest in a boring little milliner from Mannheim . ’ |
| 14 | Charles , then , was the second brother to be left a widower , after Thomas ; the domestic burden thus falling upon him and his remaining daughters must have been rather a daunting one , including the need to feed , control and educate young Ben , then only nine years old . |
| 15 | This role may have been rather a disappointment to both sides , as General Gallagher said when he got back from Hanoi , although by opposing the clearance of wartime US mines that had been laid in Haiphong harbour , thus preventing an early return of French troopships , Gallagher seems to have come down rather heavily on the Vietminh side . |
| 16 | She could remember the bra , it had been rather a good black lace wired Kayser Bondor , of a line that appeared to have been discontinued , as she 'd never been able to find another . |
| 17 | Also , half a capful might have been rather a lot , weight for weight . |
| 18 | There had been rather a lot of funerals at Low Birk Hatt and they were n't inexpensive . |
| 19 | ‘ There 's been rather a development , ’ said Emma . |
| 20 | It would have been rather a dangerous step to take you know , to con even consider er that . |
| 21 | Until near the middle of the sixteenth century the enrolment of a student who had completed , or nearly completed , his studies as a candidate for office and the subsequent appointment of him to a post seems to have been rather a disorganized process . |
| 22 | The upshot of the erm the year of course has been rather a healthy lot of financial ratios . |
| 23 | Now , if that were right , that is , here 's our bodily bit here , that 's what individuates them , right , Socrates is shorter than Plato , Plato is a bit taller than Socrates , Socrates has funny bulgy eyes , erm Plato must have been rather a normal looking person , a variety of things that differentiate them , but they 're not different in respect of being human beings . |
| 24 | Earlier in 1973 , the matches against the New Zealanders had been rather an anti-climax to their tour , with the second spoiled by rain , but no one doubted that they were now a permanent addition to the summer . |
| 25 | It had been rather an expensive one as he had gone for a fleecy-lined designer number with flashes of blue , to match his eyes , on the shoulders and down the legs . |
| 26 | However , the American evidence suggests that this growing familiarity with APRs has been rather an abstract affair . |
| 27 | Furthermore , the convertibility crisis appears now to have been predominantly a problem of financial adjustment rather than one stemming from a crisis in world trade ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 28 | And that the business has been predominantly the nature of business has been predominantly manufacturing . |
| 29 | For centuries the practice of philosophy has been overwhelmingly the prerogative of men but it is only recently that feminist analysis has made it possible to see the distorting effect of this historical fact . |
| 30 | In most other matters , since 1945 , Britain has been effectively a dependent state , whether in peace or in war , and the dominance of British fiction across the world is unmatched by almost everything else , though some might hopefully seek exceptions in education , broadcasting and financial services like marine insurance . |