Example sentences of "been [adv] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The month-old ‘ final offensive ’ has been most successful this year because a split that erupted last August among rebel ranks has not yet been patched up in the face of Khartoum 's assaults . |
| 2 | Of those temporary workers who did not want a permanent job , nearly half ( 47 per cent ) had been economically inactive one year previously , and less than two per cent had been unemployed . |
| 3 | He 'd been badly shocked last night . |
| 4 | She had been badly hurt some time ago , but her body was dealing with that . |
| 5 | The Basques , who took so inordinately long to be christianized in the early Middle Ages , have been conspicuously devout Roman Catholics ever since . |
| 6 | I think I should start by stressing the process through which we have gone in order to prepare this report has been somewhat different this year from that which we followed in the past and |
| 7 | If it had been less populated open country the application may not have been refused . |
| 8 | First , customs have been extremely successful this year with record seizures of Ecstasy . |
| 9 | He 'd been so gentle that morning when he must have seen he had hurt her feelings , and she felt good inside that she had seen the more gentle , considerate side of him . |
| 10 | ‘ He 's been so good all night . |
| 11 | But that was only because she had eaten nothing since last night and had been so furious this morning about her father 's gall in writing that damnably cheerful letter . |
| 12 | All she could see was Felipe 's face , his dark eyes , the laughter that had been so ready this morning . |
| 13 | Shame to disturb his toilette , when he had been so meticulous that morning . |
| 14 | Well in actual fact to te to tell you the honest truth we 've been so busy one way and another over the weekends have n't we ? |
| 15 | He 's been so busy catching murderers we 've hardly seen each other for three weeks . |
| 16 | He 'd been so busy that afternoon that he 'd completely forgotten to call her . |
| 17 | He had been so angry all day , but why ? |
| 18 | So if I trail the classes in this way it 's not gon na do any harm I do n't think because the class presentations and the class discussions in general have been so excellent this year . |
| 19 | She had been so happy that day . |
| 20 | But with the process of assembling Lebanon 's surviving deputies having been so difficult last time , a repeat performance seems to be impossible . |
| 21 | The wine , I mean ; the vineyard and vintage , um … whether it was south slope or the soil had been especially acidic that year . " |
| 22 | Since the mid-1970's , English local authorities have been under increasing financial pressure . |
| 23 | Trovoada had been under increasing popular pressure to take action against Daio after the latter publicly criticized him on April 3 . |
| 24 | Nixdorf , one of West Germany 's leading computer manufacturers , had been under severe financial pressure during 1989 . |
| 25 | In predominantly Albanian Kosovo , which had been under direct Serbian rule since 1989 , " temporary measures " were imposed by Serbia in early August to place the councils of several towns previously administered by Albanians under Serbian control . |
| 26 | In Kosovo , which had been under Serbian direct rule since the end of June [ ibid. ] , the majority Albanian population kept up its campaign of open defiance in the face of an intensifying Serbian crackdown . |
| 27 | Singh had been under intense political pressure to reduce the increase in fertilizer prices . |
| 28 | There is , in fact , no hard evidence to show that rural depopulation has been socially selective either way . |
| 29 | The hon. Gentleman has been exceptionally churlish this afternoon . |
| 30 | Erm that might have been as well another reason for selling to friends , erm because most of the stuff we bought anyway was new so that does n't really come into it . |