Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] been [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I would prefer not to alert our Ministry of the Interior — given that this has been purely a secret service matter of the DGSE until now . |
| 2 | ‘ This has been quite a punishing time and some of my family have been badly hurt . |
| 3 | This has been quite a long , drawn-out argument , and it is time to remind ourselves of how we got into it in the first place . |
| 4 | Some have been around a long time , others are of more recent origins . |
| 5 | With the ending of the BBC television 's long-running sailing soap opera , ‘ Howards ' Way ’ ( sighs of relief all round : the last few have been hardly a glowing advertisement for boating or boating business ) comes the announcement that Sadler International are to sell off the moulds and rights to build Barracuda , the prototype of which has been the opening and closing credits ' star of the series . |