Example sentences of "[to-vb] been [adj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such evidence is now beginning to appear and I believe that my hon. Friends and I will be proved to have been right all along in our predictions of the effect of the student loan scheme . |
| 2 | The practical services rendered by each side to the other do not seem to have been all that large although there is still considerable speculation about the volume of weapons with which the Vietminh were supplied . |
| 3 | Milton 's Poems 1645 which includes works such as Lycidas took over twenty years to sell out its first edition , which , at best , was something of the order of 1500 copies and more likely to have been much less , probably a few hundred . |
| 4 | And so , she said , ‘ You seem to have been busy this morning , Isabel , ’ but absently remembering the bumping noises from above and the journeys her sister had made to the front sitting room ( locking the door after her ) and back again to the attic ( locking the door ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |