Example sentences of "[adv] been [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've only been awake three minutes . ’ |
| 2 | Well only been married eight months , had a little baby . |
| 3 | ‘ We 'd only been married five years when he died . |
| 4 | ‘ They 've only been married 15 days . |
| 5 | There was an outbreak of infection with this organism in Liverpool in 1976 , which was thankfully controlled by dint of exhaustive contact-tracing , and there have only been sporadic single cases since then , mostly imported from abroad . |
| 6 | But I think , we 've not been good attracting women into services , I think , the responsibility that a woman drug user has over child care and a whole range of other things that male drug users do n't have . |
| 7 | The trip had also offered temporary escape from her mother 's pointed reminiscences that when she was Polly 's age she had already been married two years and was preparing for the birth of her first child . |
| 8 | " We have n't exactly been sweeping swooning suitors off the doorstep , though , have we ? |
| 9 | Erm and he 's saying that you know to start with basically education has always been the preserve of the landlords , er the peasants have n't had anything to do with education , have always been poor illiterate peasants erm and now he 's saying that because the landlords have been overthrown erm suddenly peasants er have , you know , are forming erm schools and have been able to be taught various things . |
| 10 | The Royal Year and Christmas numbers of the ILN have always been successful extra issues each year , and they will henceforth both be sent to subscribers , giving them in total six issues of the ILN each year . |
| 11 | Blues manager Trevor Anderson , determined to keep the League title at Windsor Park , has also been tracking top midfielders down south and in Scotland . |
| 12 | It 's now been empty six months . |
| 13 | Some of them are , of course , capital cities , comparable only to London , but most of the others ( we tend to forget ) have equally been great urban centres for many hundreds of years , while Britain 's biggest cities are mostly products of the Industrial Revolution . |
| 14 | The PBS , which came to power soon after its formation in 1985 , gained most of its support from the mainly Christian Kadazan ethnic group and from the Chinese ; however , the party also made some inroads into what had previously been USNO-controlled Moslem constituencies . |
| 15 | But the bias towards defence and security ( which have historically been natural right-wing issues ) might well persist and offset Labour 's advantage as the incumbent government , unless the 1989 Year of Revolutions in Eastern Europe ushers in a new era of world peace and tranquillity . |
| 16 | There have recently been encouraging medical advances in treating people with HIV who show no signs of being ill . |