Example sentences of "[adv] have been [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must also have been quite a handful judging by Coward 's ironic telegram to a Broadway manager requesting 58 per cent of the gross for the task of restraining her from being ‘ Grock , Beatrice Lillie , Theda Bara , Mary Pickford and Bert Lahr all at once . ’ |
| 2 | Furthermore , the convertibility crisis appears now to have been predominantly a problem of financial adjustment rather than one stemming from a crisis in world trade ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 3 | In practice , the result might well have been either a collapse of the new procedure or a perfunctory and rapid processing which would deny the public participation which Dobry wished to increase . |
| 4 | ‘ Maybe I 'd stopped believing , started wondering if things could n't have been just a bit different . |
| 5 | She thought that perhaps her manner was somewhat too bold for one who so recently had been only a governess , and now wanted to be even less . |