Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] have been [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | How generous I have been with my genius . |
2 | This is the most upbeat I have been for more than a year . ’ |
3 | How fortunate we have been over the years in our efforts to help this cause , for yet again the story is one of sunshine , success and soaring profits . |
4 | When we include fairy stories in our consideration of ‘ the short story ’ , we realise how central they have been to our childhood , adolescence and adulthood , too : how we have pored eagerly over them because we ourselves , like Snow White , have feared our mother 's envy ; because , like Little Briar Rose , we imagine the gap between the child and the woman to stretch over a hundred years ; because , like Cinderella , we long to be protected by the good mother from the bad mother . |
5 | Obviously , the ability to continue someone else 's work is very dependent on how disciplined they have been in identifying work to be done and returning successful work to LIFESPAN . |
6 | I 'll tell Mama when I see her how good you have been to me . |
7 | Let's have a look back and see how successful you have been in the past . |
8 | Only a Review/Recall Stage at the end will determine how successful you have been in your reading . |
9 | Later in the post it should be established how successful they have been in doing so . |
10 | The follow-up survey planned for Spring 1985 will test just how successful they have been in job search . |
11 | Another approach to the competence question has been to ask clients , retrospectively , how satisfied they have been with the service they have had ( Rosenthal 1974 ) . |