Example sentences of "been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | What Alexander had decided to do was to send the British Resident Minister , who had been intimately involved in the crisis , up to Venezia Giulia to brief the senior army commanders on every aspect of the delicate political situation which surrounded it . |
| 32 | In fact the use of the phrase " verbal directive " is a further indication that this signal was not drafted by someone who had been intimately involved In the events of the previous ten days , as Brig Low had been . |
| 33 | His mother 's death was the first he had been intimately concerned with — his father 's hardly counted , because Peter had been only thirteen at the time . |
| 34 | ‘ Look , he 's been jolly tolerant . |
| 35 | The PNSF had previously been staunchly anti-Arafat and the initiative was regarded by some sources as an attempt by Syria to strengthen its influence over the PLO [ for March reports of Syrian plans to increase its influence within the PLO see p. 38121 ] . |
| 36 | For even if the Danes say Yes to the treaty ( see next article ) , worries about it are growing in three European countries that have hitherto been staunchly pro-European . |
| 37 | And until now she 'd been naïvely pleased with the result . |
| 38 | Only a few years before , Camille had been acutely concerned about her mother 's appearance , sometimes refusing to be seen with her in public , but now it seemed that she no longer minded : she had expropriated from Scarlet 's wardrobe those few articles that she felt would suit herself and had thereafter left her mother to her own devices . |
| 39 | Yanto , on the other hand , had always been acutely aware and sensitive about what other people thought of him . |
| 40 | Knowing that the sergeant-major , the most senior layman , would have been incredibly nervous Eva did as she was told . |
| 41 | To believe that you have just been incredibly stupid . |
| 42 | Measuring by the impressive stint of ‘ Winona ’ in the indie charts , luck and genuine love is with Drop Nineteens , so maybe by staying away they 've just been incredibly clever , holding back 'til the slaying 's stopped . |
| 43 | Your life has been incredibly successful , and you 've got out of it exactly what you wanted for your highest good . |
| 44 | Their act had been incredibly successful in the fifties and they had shared the bill with Judy Garland and Sammy Davis Jnr . |
| 45 | The work had been incredibly boring ; even with her husband 's help it had taken an age to find out the Russian terms for the jargon of mountaineering , and the subject simply left her cold . |
| 46 | Yet he 'd been incredibly gentle after she 'd hit him , and it was Leo 's face in her mind as she fell asleep , not Ryan 's . |
| 47 | But the computer power required to turn all those dots and squiggles you call your handwriting into meaningful computer data has meant that most pen based computers have been incredibly expensive . |
| 48 | Because it was certainly true that Laura Wyndham had been incredibly kind and generous to her , and to many of their less fortunate friends . |
| 49 | If he was not involved , then he must have been incredibly naive . |
| 50 | ‘ The council has been capped this year and we felt it would have been incredibly insensitive to spend money on road races when some council workers are facing the prospect of losing their jobs . ’ |
| 51 | Keeping everything from her had been incredibly tough , particularly since Candy was highly adept at winkling out secrets , but Adam had been completely inflexible on the subject . |
| 52 | Not only had Cora-Beth been incredibly patient and understanding about his reluctance to become engaged these past two years , but during that period of his life she had somehow made it possible for them to renew their old easy friendship . |
| 53 | It was then believed that if a cat crossed your path and did you no harm , you had been incredibly lucky . |
| 54 | ‘ I 've been incredibly lucky . |
| 55 | Her job might be one of considerable stress and strain , but she really had been incredibly lucky , Laura told herself , not just in being able to afford to buy a penthouse apartment in this large , architectually prestigious warehouse development beside the river at Wapping , but also in managing to persuade her old school-friend Julie to come and share the apartment with her . |
| 56 | She 's been dead four years . |
| 57 | Embalming would not have allowed for this and , had the person not been dead prior to the beginning of the operation , he certainly would be once it was all over . |
| 58 | He had been dead five weeks . |
| 59 | At a guess I 'd say he 's probably been dead five or six hours but do n't hold me to that . |
| 60 | If you had been dead drunk , you could n't have slept deeper . |