Example sentences of "been [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told me that the match on Sunday was the first time he had been properly man marked since playing in Italy . |
| 2 | As she gave a brief nod he continued , ‘ The Meadowses have been incredibly kind , and are obviously doing what they can to make us feel welcome . |
| 3 | ‘ That should change , but it is only what the Japanese have been successfully doing for years . ’ |
| 4 | Although various theories have been proposed , there are two about which there has been most argument . |
| 5 | Professor Pearn and I had for the last ten years been interchangeably secretary and editor of the Burma Research Society , and when we discovered that the Society 's bank had been able to get our balance safely into India before the break-up , we conceived the plan of a series of Burma Pamphlets , describing various aspects of the national life . |
| 6 | And that the business has been predominantly the nature of business has been predominantly manufacturing . |
| 7 | Although if I remember , Commander , your muse in recent years has been somewhat fugitive . ’ |
| 8 | The discussion of space thus far has been somewhat backside foremost . |
| 9 | If it had been only philanthropy , would it have felt like it did ? |
| 10 | The inflammation was where there had been only skin and bone before . |
| 11 | Negotiable instruments , however , have never been only trade-related . |
| 12 | If he had ever wanted to see her socially he could have done so at any time , but there had been only chance meetings since his marriage . |
| 13 | Certainly , prices of fuel doubled in the later sixteenth century although this may have been only part of the general inflation . |
| 14 | It may have been only perception — but the customers were put off and that 's what mattered . |
| 15 | In this " process of corporate bias " , what had once been merely interest groups crossed the political threshold and became part of the extended state . |
| 16 | The Crimea had been administratively part of Ukraine since 1954 , before which it had belonged to Russia . |
| 17 | No penal system has ever been entirely retributivist , or entirely reductivist , or thoroughly Beccarian . |
| 18 | On 3 July the men of Huntingdonshire had made a perambulation in their county , which had until then been entirely forest , a perambulation which was declared to be ‘ in accordance with the Charter of the Forest ’ . |
| 19 | It is an observable fact that the greatest drivers I have known have all been highly safety conscious : a sign that their minds ruled their instincts . |
| 20 | Foolishly , the roughness from one who had been so kind was the last straw , and tears suddenly welled into her eyes . |
| 21 | Very little apart from his outward appearance , and when he had n't been teasing her he 'd been carelessly kind to her when they met . |
| 22 | When Jack was given the accolade of Best Actor by the New York Critics ' Award for his performance , he responded by sending them all a polite thank-you letter ; those critics who had mentioned him in the past had not been especially kind . |
| 23 | No it must have been just coincidence . |
| 24 | The six credits required for the BA have been largely technology based with a strong emphasis on environmental issues and their control . |
| 25 | The convention has been largely moribund since the general election , but Labour is insistent that it is the only cross-party forum in which it will take part . |
| 26 | I was neither aspiring poet nor actor and had never been further east than Brooklyn . |
| 27 | Viscount Melbourne became Prime Minister in July 1835 , but by the end of that year , it was necessary for the Duke of Wellington to become Prime Minister for a short period , followed for about one year by Sir Robert Peel , who had been Home Secretary and had introduced the first Police Force , enrolling men who soon became known as ‘ Peelers ’ or ‘ Bobbies ’ , after the founder . |
| 28 | And looking back on it , when you think about his own experience — he 'd been Home Secretary , Chancellor of the Exchequer and Foreign Secretary — I think most of his Cabinet colleagues who served under him would say he was a better prime minister than he was a secretary of state in either of these three roles . |
| 29 | Two more recent developments have been home blood glucose monitoring and the glycosylated haemoglobin ( HbA 1 ) or fructosamine — indicators of the integrated blood glucose level over the preceding few weeks . |
| 30 | This session is actually been suitably video taped , to see how well you can follow fairly simple verbal instructions . |