Example sentences of "[been] a very " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been a very different story with the earlier sell-off of the hotels where the managers ' interest had not been shown proper respect . |
| 2 | Kelly , who has won this race three times , said : ‘ It has been a very long and hard season for me , and I feel very tired . |
| 3 | The board had considered the chairman 's position seriously , he said , and decided ‘ it would have been a very foolish thing to ask him to step down ’ . |
| 4 | He denied angrily that he had ever sought compensation of up to £1m ‘ although this has been a very expensive operation ’ , adding : ‘ I could have proceeded had I been totally selfish for there were several options on the table , financially very attractive . ’ |
| 5 | THIS HAS been a very good week for fishermen and a very bad week for Findus , Bird 's Eye and all the other producers of frozen peas and pizzas . |
| 6 | The author of that book seems to me to have been a very sick man indeed . ’ |
| 7 | It had been a very hot day and this was the first heat-stroke casualty . |
| 8 | THE ARUNDELLS of Cornwall must have been a very sophisticated family , for it is peculiar to find such a fancy façade of this date in such a distant corner of the land . |
| 9 | ‘ Angela must have been a very attractive girl , ’ he suggested , cautiously . |
| 10 | He had always been a very religious man , which had helped him a lot in the Corporation . |
| 11 | He had been a very successful amateur boxer , and sometimes would try to relieve our tension by sparring with me , teaching me basic moves of a sport I knew nothing about and instinctively detested . |
| 12 | Judith Longman at SPCK has been a very supportive and sensitive editor . |
| 13 | But if we had not been advancing properly — being there just ahead of the main party to iron out any difficulties — the result could have been a very serious error in terms of local coverage , with potentially unhappy consequences . |
| 14 | She must have been a very extraordinary artist to work with ? |
| 15 | At the time , he said : ‘ It has been a very difficult split . |
| 16 | Blake had been a very good agent and the KGB always looks after its own . |
| 17 | It would just have been possible to detour and commit the murder in Cross Street , but it would have been a very tight schedule indeed . |
| 18 | ‘ I am very sorry , ’ he said , ‘ but you must understand it has been a very long time … |
| 19 | Since then there has been a very slight reversal of this trend , but the proportions are projected to fall again by 2001 ( Social Trends 21 , 1991 ) . |
| 20 | The teds of the fifties had been replaced by the mods , who at first had been a very exclusive , almost secret , underground working class movement . |
| 21 | There 's been a very interesting episode of The Bill which is about wife battering and makes all kinds of progressive points that wife batterers are not , in fact , the sort of British lower-class people of the stereotype . |
| 22 | With her experience in the grant-aided sector , Karen Hamilton was able to choose to move into mainstream broadcasting and , on a personal level , it 's been a very positive experience for her . |
| 23 | Boston had been a very important port in medieval times , importing goods from the northern European ports . |
| 24 | But it had been a very close-run thing . |
| 25 | With the extra dimension of greater personal commitment by the author , it could have been a very good book indeed . |
| 26 | The glycosylated haemoglobin has been a very useful advance for the Type 2 patients with latently poor control . |
| 27 | It may have been a very naive discovery on my part , but that said something very definite to me about the way we live . |
| 28 | Also , the rain water has been a very weak acid because it links with carbon dioxide in the air . |
| 29 | Here I apologised to JTR and learned that he must have been a very tall man . |
| 30 | Michael has always been a very hard worker and has filled every minute of every day with activity . |