Example sentences of "been very [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 4th place must still have been very satisfying for Robin Williams who has now completed his transition from international slalom C2 paddler to international marathon K2 . |
| 2 | Before my condition was diagnosed , I had been very bored with life . |
| 3 | Six weeks later she reported back that she had been very well on holiday with no travel-sickness or stomach problems but since returning home the digestive symptoms had gradually increased in intensity . |
| 4 | However , we have also been very grateful to WWF/UK for the valuable grants you have provided . |
| 5 | I ought to have been very grateful to ATV for sponsoring my work . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've never been very good at school , ’ she said in a bored voice . |
| 7 | From left the Virago team , Lennie Goodings , 20th year ‘ mascot ’ Ethel Merman ( ‘ Broadway has been very good to me — but then I 've been very good to Broadway ’ ) , Harriet Spicer and Fiona McIntosh . |
| 8 | ‘ The deal has been very good for football , ’ he says , ‘ and I believe that television is going to be accepted as a very important tool in the game 's administration . |
| 9 | The management committee have been very impressed with Llansantffraid and the way in which they 've gone about their improvements . |
| 10 | I had been very impressed by Jacob Bronowski 's television series , The Ascent of Man . |
| 11 | Greek theologians who had been trained in Italy and who had been very impressed by Aquinas and his Aristotelian Christianity were opposed and defeated by St Gregory Palamas , who refused to consider God in any sense as a concept , however inspiring , that could be rationally discussed and analysed . |
| 12 | The CER had been very successful for New Zealand , which since 1983 had been able to increase by 170 per cent its exports of mainly agricultural products to the relatively large Australian market , as well as to correct a large bilateral trade deficit . |
| 13 | While Faldo has been very successful with David Leadbetter , I am more concerned by the specialist looking after his wrist . |
| 14 | Many giant dinosaurs , therefore , would have been very successful in battle , having an important bearing on natural selection . |
| 15 | I suspect however that parts of my treatment of this theme would have been very uncongenial to Radcliffe-Brown himself . |
| 16 | But it is important to state that although in recent years in Britain , there have been many service innovations whose aim has been to improve the home or community care of elderly mentally frail people ( see for example Age Concern England , l983 ) , unfortunately most of these schemes have either not been systematically evaluated ( often because they have been very small in scale ) , or — if they have — results have not been widely disseminated . |
| 17 | She and Sheila had been very close at school up to the Fifth Form . |
| 18 | In his report , Judge Tumim said the prison had been very close to anarchy in the months before the riot . |
| 19 | ‘ The major bankers have also been very close to goings on in the Bond Corporation for some time . ’ |
| 20 | She realized , and it was a new thought , that he must have been very close to Jake … |
| 21 | I was sad to see the martins go , even though they had often been very noisy at night and kept me awake . |
| 22 | One , Martha Barratt , had been very noisy at times , and he had been told that she had been found with a knife in her bed . |
| 23 | In the early stages of cold-welding the planets must have been very similar in appearance , with massive outer gassy atmospheres . |
| 24 | Florrie had been very friendly with Nellie for many years and she nodded sympathetically . |
| 25 | I had also been very friendly with Jeff Jukes and Max Hole ( Max is the managing director of Warner Brothers and Jeff manages the Fixx and Rupert Hine , a very established producer ) . |
| 26 | It must have been very galling for Major , when he established membership of the A-Team to write the election manifesto , that he had to choose for it those very men who are most likely to profit from his failure . |
| 27 | Belief in these three Pates is said to have been very deep-rooted in Greece , and apparently survived in parts of the country almost till the present day , where birth customs included rites to propitiate these goddesses . |
| 28 | erm and what makes me suspect not is that Chine Chinese record keeping for many many centuries had been very thorough of course because it 's the basis of the imperial taxation system , so my guess is that the figures are probably fairly reliable . |
| 29 | Well one of the things that I think has been very striking about John Major , and unfortunately again I 'm comparing him with Mrs. Thatcher , but it 's very difficult not to , thank goodness she was n't around during the Gulf war — that 's my feeling — because I do n't think I could have borne the idea of erm any more rejoice and up an atom and things like that . |
| 30 | Isolating an infected person has long been used as a means of preventing the spread of infection and has been very effective in campaigns against the more serious and highly infectious diseases , such as smallpox ( now eradicated from the world ) , Lassa fever and tuberculosis . |