Example sentences of "been very [adj] [prep] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the war the CIA has been very alarmed at some of the left-wing British governments , many of whose politicians it regards as friends of Moscow . |
| 2 | Well there were the jobs tha that I mentioned really , production manager or assistant director and now he would have been quite happy I know to have done those , because I remember talking about it you know er and he would have been very good at either of them , but erm er he he did n't get well he was a slightly abrasive man , he he he his erm I I think in a way erm he was a director who could who was not really a very good film director , he he could get things done very quickly and that 's why he worked for bash , bash , bash getting through everything quickly . |
| 3 | Even as he charmed Cagney burnt up a nervous restlessness in a way that would have been very familiar to many of his fans . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've been very fortunate in most of the families of new residents when they take them out , they often take out their friends as well . |
| 5 | Life must have been very hard for many of these poor women . ’ |
| 6 | Wife Marguerita said : ‘ This has been very upsetting for both of us . |
| 7 | The economists ' approach to bureaucracy has been very different to that of conventional public administration , with its emphasis on constitutional principles , institutions of control and review , and structural features of public agencies . |
| 8 | The condition of the Northern catholic — nationalist minority has been very different from that of the majority in the South . |
| 9 | The Corresponding Members also included a German , an Italian and , more interestingly , an Indian Mahadeva Vishnu Kane , BA , of Bombay , whose religious background must have been very different from that of the earnest doubters of Cambridge . |