Example sentences of "been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has also been deftly successful with its new Universal credit card . |
| 2 | They celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary last September , and Dulcie has been keenly involved with Medau for over 36 years , starting with the Post Natal Classes at Days Lane School , Sidcup , taken by Molly Braithwaite and Peggy Secord . |
| 3 | He had been keenly interested in the first : about the second he was much intrigued . |
| 4 | His granddaughter , Jessie Mould , has been keenly interested in the movements of her family over the generations and after she had discovered that her seventeenth-century ancestors were mentioned in Richard Gough 's History of Myddle ( 1701–2 ) she published More Tales of Banks Peninsula and wrote in her foreword : |
| 5 | Social revolutionaries have been keenly aware of the force of nationalism , as well as ideologically committed to national autonomy , even when it is not actually wanted , as among the Lusatian Slavs , whose language is slowly retreating , in spite of the previous admirable efforts of the German Democratic Republic to foster it . |
| 6 | The central administration of the Modular Course has always been keenly aware of the burden falling on Field Chairs . |
| 7 | In Spain , governments have been keenly aware of RENFE 's position as the model whose pay and conditions were likely to have major repercussions for other firms throughout the economy . |
| 8 | Ultimately , of course , Æthelred 's inactivity did cost him his throne , but the point at which this could reasonably have been foreseen may have been little clearer to contemporaries than it is today . |
| 9 | Greg had been little better than a crook on the business front — and he had very nearly dragged her father — and his stupendous talent — down with him . |
| 10 | Timber which has been properly kiln-seasoned ( which needs expensive kilns and close supervision ) is in no way worse than ‘ naturally ’ seasoned timber and indeed is rather less likely to have picked up the infections of rot during the seasoning process . |
| 11 | And my leg 's never been properly better since . |
| 12 | She turned her back on him , unlocking the inner door , and as the warmth from the storage heaters wafted out to greet them she thanked God that she had had the foresight to leave them on — she did n't think she had been properly warm since reading the newspaper this afternoon — no , not even on the plane . |
| 13 | Black gets it into the box Rozario got a header in but even as he headed the ball he limped away again and if he 'd have been properly fit then he would have really powered that one in . |
| 14 | He has not been properly fit for months . |
| 15 | ( Unfortunately , the fact that many projects have produced attractive material which is extremely effective in the hands of some teachers but that has not been widely successful may reasonably be interpreted either as an aim- or a style-mismatch , or as a dissemination problem . ) |
| 16 | Since 1977 , Audi cars able to run on unleaded petrol have been widely available . |
| 17 | In those days magic in its raw state had been widely available , and had been eagerly utilised by the First Men in their war against the Gods . |
| 18 | This type of pipe has also been widely used ungalvanised in gas plumbing , but modern installations use copper . |
| 19 | Blues , of course , has been widely influential , indeed formative , on the development of rock . |
| 20 | The true extent of the use is unknown but its high cost has certainly ensured that videodisc can claim only pockets of success and has by no means been widely influential . |
| 21 | The recruitment of volunteer , contract armies could not have been successful unless the war had been widely popular . |
| 22 | The content and learning strategies have been widely different . |
| 23 | ‘ Right from the beginning my fellow directors have regarded me as part of the team and have been tremendously supportive . ’ |
| 24 | He could have developed that and it would have been tremendously useful to him . |
| 25 | Joseph had been tremendously excited when Patrick had strolled into the dusty bookshop that morning . |
| 26 | Punch jokes have never been tremendously funny , but one particular line , ‘ Fostering prices start from just £14.95 ’ , strikes me as quite droll . |
| 27 | The low cost of setting up such a system allows people who have never ventured beyond typewriter or wordprocessor to produce material which looks as though it has been professionally typeset . |
| 28 | Cooperation with the professionals required acceptance of the framework within which John 's needs had been professionally cast : that it was their deficits as parents which had created John 's needs . |
| 29 | The practice is classed as having been professionally marginal because at the time of the research it was new to the town . |
| 30 | What Alexander had decided to do was to send the British Resident Minister , who had been intimately involved in the crisis , up to Venezia Giulia to brief the senior army commanders on every aspect of the delicate political situation which surrounded it . |