Example sentences of "been so [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe the reason why it 's been so successful in Japan is because the Japanese mind seems to think that way . |
| 2 | Margaret Myers said : ‘ I am delighted that the Women in Enterprise Programme has been so successful in Londonderry , and as training providers we would hope to continue to provide award winning training from NISBI in Londonderry and throughout the province . ’ |
| 3 | In the Portuguese elections of 1984 , where I was an adviser , it was quite a problem — it had always been done from the second floor — so I suggested the flatbed truck concept that had been so successful in Malta . |
| 4 | Could somebody please explain to me why it is that a project that was always highly speculative and which now looks like a near disaster should have been so profitable for investors ? |
| 5 | Murat and the French Ambassador , La Forest , saw the 2nd of May as the opportunity for one of those severe lessons which had been so effective in Naples . |
| 6 | She knew it was best , but she could n't help wondering what would have happened if she had n't been so proud on Christmas Day . |
| 7 | And it is their Derrida , the nihilist or joker , who has been so influential in literature departments . |
| 8 | Australian railways took up and developed the Italianate style which had been so influential in Britain and the United States earlier in the century , and by the time the principal Australian stations were built , classical was in style once more . |
| 9 | In Troeltsch , the focusing of attention on ‘ religion ’ which had been so central for Schleiermacher and Liberal Theology is thus intensified to the point where its separation off from Christian theology becomes inevitable . |
| 10 | That 's probably why I 've been so bloody to Perdita . |
| 11 | Staff there have been so impressed by Carina 's bravery that they have decided to try and help other youngsters like her . |
| 12 | Ferguson revealed : ‘ I have been so impressed by Danny 's form that I am now giving serious consideration about playing him in the League team . |
| 13 | It was not a friendship of the kind that had been so frequent in Anselm 's early life . |
| 14 | However , the government has not been so preoccupied with accountability procedures as appeared to be the case in the early 1980s . |
| 15 | Not since the 1930s has the party system been so one-sided in Parliament . |
| 16 | It had been so self-evident to Dalgliesh that the squad would need a senior woman detective that he had devoted his energy to choosing the right one , rather than to speculating how well she would fit into the team . |
| 17 | Life has n't always been so dull for Elaine : she has managed , in the past , to survive the same upheavals as many able-bodied people . |
| 18 | A source tells us that one of the reasons SunSoft Inc has been so discreet about Spring and Project DOE ( Distributed Objects Everywhere ) object-oriented stuff , is that it does n't want Microsoft Corp to know too much . |
| 19 | When you have been so close to death and even closer to permanent serious injury then every day becomes a bonus . ’ |
| 20 | He 'd been so adamant in Vienna about not looking ridiculous with the ‘ fat old Frau ’ and now he was suggesting productions that were totally unsuitable . |
| 21 | ‘ I wonder why you have been so good to Aunt Lavvy . |
| 22 | You have been so good to George and you deserve a little reward now that all the young people have come . |
| 23 | She said she was sorry she 'd been so cross about Timothy Gedge . |
| 24 | He had always been so scathing about psychiatrists and psychotherapists , emphatic that she was normal , that she would be just like any other mother once she had a child of her own . |
| 25 | I had been so horrified by Jason Purvis ' physical condition that , almost unwittingly , I had taken him in hand . |
| 26 | In which case why not jettison this religion which has been so harmful to women ? l6 |
| 27 | Kiltmakers have never been so popular with men who are not members of pipe bands . |
| 28 | Yet her mind had been so parched by convention that had her full complement of guests not interacted in the manner of characters in a well-made play , set in a small hotel in Scandinavia , she would not have been able to cope . |
| 29 | She may look back with longing to the coffee-breaks and lunch hours she used to share with colleagues at work , which may seem in retrospect to have been so full of interest- and best of all , laughter , forgetting any strains that existed in her job . |
| 30 | The plump girl , who had been so full of life , was killed in the same way as the earlier victims . |