Example sentences of "been [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knowing that the sergeant-major , the most senior layman , would have been incredibly nervous Eva did as she was told . |
| 2 | ‘ Users who have been successfully running applications on systems which are now nearing the end of their life cycle , such as the NCR Tower , will now be able to right-size to UnixWare platforms . |
| 3 | I mean there , there would have been presumably enormous opposition to that and in the process output would have almost certainly fallen an an and er there were no resources for mechanization so collectivization as a short-term option is really out . |
| 4 | A publisher is eligible for membership when they publish fifteen titles , ten of which must have been commercially exploited land they must all have been written by PRS writer members ) . |
| 5 | The general situation had been most unsatisfactory right from the start in 191 7 , even amongst the proletariat of Petrograd , the core of Bolshevik support . |
| 6 | Over the past seven days , there have been most encouraging reports about Magic Ring , winner of four of his five outings as a two-year-old — although he was disqualified once . |
| 7 | There has been most impressive progress in Sheffield . |
| 8 | we have been most upset Gordon and I about |
| 9 | They had returned on the late theatre train , and it had been most pleasant walking down from the railway station and along the seafront so late at night ; ah , to have a pretty girl by one 's side , and the touch of her lips on yours . |
| 10 | To the astonishment of some , the nursery — opened just over a year ago — has been most popular option . |
| 11 | ‘ I am happy to say , ’ Gould wrote to Sir John Franklin , with a somewhat exaggerated show of piety and self-restraint , ‘ that my last trip to the interior has been productive of much that is interesting , having discovered many novelties both in birds and quadrupeds , my whole journeys in fact to these colonies have been most auspicious ones and I return satisfied and especially thankful for what our almighty providence has in his infinite goodness allowed me to see . |
| 12 | Previous record books had been rather austere collections of lists , ’ he recalls . |
| 13 | Such women may have been rather running businesses than producing goods in so far as they relied on journeymen . |
| 14 | The island has always been predominantly Roman Catholic , ever since the days of the first settlers , and it is still so today . |
| 15 | For example , in areas close to the sea the newcomers have been predominantly retired couples whose impact i n the local housing market has again caused resentment in those regions where they have become concentrated , such as Devon and Cornwall . |
| 16 | ‘ Since 1987 , 270 Darlington companies have gone out of business and it has been overwhelmingly small companies . |
| 17 | It had taken until the long , open left-hander that leads down into Glen Kinglas before my erection had finally subsided , and that had been mostly naked fear ; Verity had lost it just for a second , the rear of the car nudging out towards the wrong side of the road as we whanged round the bend . |
| 18 | The South Korean government has been remarkably low key in its response , apparently intent not to inflame the situation . |
| 19 | Even that would be better than the policy Vacuum there has been since Black Wednesday . |
| 20 | This group may include the distant ancestors of the sharks , but they must have been somewhat ponderous animals compared with the streamlined hunters of modern seas . |
| 21 | There would have been less practical difficulty about saying that trade ceased when business ceased actively to be carried on , because there was a further period of a year during which a petition could be presented . |
| 22 | Recently , with declining industries and unemployment , there has been less spare money , or capital , but at the same time many new industries are needed for the workers . |
| 23 | Similar patterns are discernible with other brooch types , although there has been less detailed research . |
| 24 | ‘ Following the elections there has been less high profile security presence in the area , ’ he said , adding that some time ago he asked for extra security measures for the town . |
| 25 | Equally , had county councils shown greater vision , more smaller settlements would have been built , and there would have been less urban sprawl , less despoliation of county towns , and fewer hideous spec-building estates on the fringes of attractive old villages . |
| 26 | There have been only limited studies which directly address the effect of cholesteryl esters on the stability of biologic membranes . |
| 27 | As mentioned before , Mains seemed pleased with the final choice and there have been only muted complaints from about the country — although it would be hard to be too critical 24 hours after a test was won 59–6 . |
| 28 | The Fair Labor Standards Act ( 1938 ) established a national minimum wage and maximum hours of work , where before there had been only individual state laws . |
| 29 | They took a small boutique on the Left Bank , where hitherto there had been only antique shops , correctly recognizing that the little street , Rue des Saints Pères , was full of ‘ Laura Ashley spirit ’ . |
| 30 | Surely that would have been only common courtesy ? |