Example sentences of "been very [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill would have been very proud of that moment . ’ |
| 2 | New Guinea has both such features , whereas Africa has been very stable in this regard , while contact with Laurasian floras has been restricted by desert barriers and this contrasts with the intermingling in other tropical regions . |
| 3 | Since the war the CIA has been very alarmed at some of the left-wing British governments , many of whose politicians it regards as friends of Moscow . |
| 4 | The standard of manual design has traditionally been very low for several reasons . |
| 5 | We have been very good at burnished shellac finish and we can now add a brighter spirited-off shellac finish to enhance our fine pieces of blonde furniture . |
| 6 | Well , I say , he 's always been very good at that . |
| 7 | Well there were the jobs tha that I mentioned really , production manager or assistant director and now he would have been quite happy I know to have done those , because I remember talking about it you know er and he would have been very good at either of them , but erm er he he did n't get well he was a slightly abrasive man , he he he his erm I I think in a way erm he was a director who could who was not really a very good film director , he he could get things done very quickly and that 's why he worked for bash , bash , bash getting through everything quickly . |
| 8 | I 'd never been very good at big lies , and the thought of living one terrified me , but it was important that not only I , but the baby , should have some self-respect about its origins . |
| 9 | Erm , well the North East and all , I found very good , the two York stores , Harrogate and , erm , that 's where I 've been involved really , and they 've all been very good for that . |
| 10 | We are accused of being the poor men of Europe , and I think we are economically and industrially the poor men of Europe or at least our performances have n't been very good in this respect since the War , but the other side is that because we are the poor men and are self-conscious about it , that we have compensated , in a sense , in the vitality of our music and of our culture , and certainly in the pop culture . |
| 11 | When he had found her , on holiday in Bournemouth , she had been very keen on amateur theatricals . |
| 12 | I do n't know , Mr Chairman , I think you 've always been very keen on this trend and supported it fully . |
| 13 | I 've been very impressed by this boot , and at a price which , by present standards , has to be regarded as favourably competitive , I 'd recommend giving it a serious consideration . |
| 14 | When asked if their shefi acted in too authoritarian a manner , some kolkhozniki at first said it was very rare , but then in peasant fashion slowly warmed up to the fact that they had been very angered by some young students who had written in Rabochii put ’ that their horses were badly fed and cleaned , and that they had not sown enough crops . |
| 15 | The suddenly rendered-visible women who attracted attention were working with anti-sculptural , anti-formal , alternative strategies and were mobilised around the hyperactive Lucy Lippard ( who , until then , had been very partial to male artists in her exhibition projects and writings ) . |
| 16 | Classical elasticity assumes this to be the case and it has been very successful with continuous media . |
| 17 | Have you been very successful at that ? |
| 18 | A similar picture on European Social Fund which is falling out , erm , mainly relating to schemes for people with learning disability , and we have been very successful on that front in attracting European funding for learning disability , particularly those schemes which have an element of , of training for , for employment associated with them . |
| 19 | Now there 's no doubt that groining on the beaches has been very successful in many cases . |
| 20 | The building societies have been very successful in attracting savings from the personal sector . |
| 21 | In fact , however , as is shown in some detail in chapter 11 , while the Conservatives have been very committed to public ‘ expenditure restraint and have stopped the growth of public employment , they too have found social policy expenditure hard to curb . |
| 22 | The limestone seems to be exactly the same as that at the head of the pass , so the seas in which it was laid down must surely have been very similar to those that produced fossiliferous rocks . |
| 23 | The revolutionising effects of war have been very pronounced in Russian history ; the USSR will not lightly embark on war , because she knows that a setback to the state could present a peril to the regime . |
| 24 | The work of the Association of Women of El Salvador ( AMES ) and other women 's organizations in the controlled zones and with refugees has been very impressive in this sense . |
| 25 | Some local authorities have been very effective at this — in Greenwich , people who registered were entered in a prize draw . |
| 26 | Retailing and banking have been very effective in attracting managers of this sort . |
| 27 | This was not a very positive thing to say because Ralph lost some morale which could have been very dangerous at such an early stage . |
| 28 | Even as he charmed Cagney burnt up a nervous restlessness in a way that would have been very familiar to many of his fans . |
| 29 | The Gruagach were strong on courtesy ; Inchbad had always been very firm about this , even to the extent of feeding prisoners before the Fidchell which Goibniu had always said was a waste of good food and wine . |
| 30 | ‘ We 've been very fortunate in most of the families of new residents when they take them out , they often take out their friends as well . |