Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] have been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am always in my very best spirits , for my heart has been as light as a feather ever since I got away from all that humbug ; and , what is more , I have become fatter . |
| 2 | And my chest 's been right sore . |
| 3 | Things which , to my mind have been totally illogical — and yet nothing on this earth would have stopped me from doing them . ’ |
| 4 | Hello folks , my boss has been away this morning so I 've been busy scanning a few leeds picies and saving them as gif files . |
| 5 | ‘ But if my name has been so discredited , I do not see a remedy . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ My wife has been dead these two years . |
| 7 | We ate in the kitchen , though if my steak had been much bigger we would have had to move into the garage as well . |
| 8 | And my leg 's been that sore and badly swollen I just do n't |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , there have been occasions over the past four years when my morale has been very low , ’ he told The Bookseller this week . |
| 10 | ‘ We have a good promotion chance and my form has been very consistent . |
| 11 | My detective has been very inefficient . |
| 12 | The Monteith experiment ( summarized very baldly ) concluded that its experience had been broadly encouraging , that there appeared to be some evidence of correlation of a student 's personal library effectiveness and other measures of educational development , and that ( of course ) more research was necessary . |
| 13 | Its board had been largely Africanized , and it adopted the view expressed by Mr Sijaona . |
| 14 | In its 1990 Annual Report , published on Sept. 18 , the IMF welcomed the Brady Plan , while acknowledging that its progress had been too slow . |
| 15 | It never occurred to Charles that Diana would find any of this odd or difficult to accept ; but her upbringing had been entirely different . |
| 16 | For its part , the Trades Union Congress has recognised the gap ; but its response has been primarily cosmetic , couched in terms of a public relations campaign which leaves power where it already is , and fails to address the crisis within the movement itself . |
| 17 | Yet her mind had been so parched by convention that had her full complement of guests not interacted in the manner of characters in a well-made play , set in a small hotel in Scandinavia , she would not have been able to cope . |
| 18 | Her mind had been so full of Travis that she 'd forgotten all about her cousin and the jade figurine , and the recall now was an unpleasant shock . |
| 19 | Until now its speed had been so great that it had grown into a ravening monster , capable not only of swallowing the Residency , but of gulping down the banqueting hall as well . |
| 20 | It was quiet , but perhaps that was because their entrance had been so noisy . |
| 21 | She had seen him only once during the past three years — two bleak weeks ago at the funeral , when her grief had been so great that she had barely registered his presence . |
| 22 | Their act had been incredibly successful in the fifties and they had shared the bill with Judy Garland and Sammy Davis Jnr . |
| 23 | ( ‘ A ’ Squadron of the S.A.S. had indeed had some contact with S.O.E. agents in the Morvan , but the principal nature of their work had been somewhat different . ) |
| 24 | This decision filled her with profound gloom ; not only because her home had been so special and so very much loved , but also because the selling of Rose Cottage could do nothing but plunge her into financial disaster . |
| 25 | But although its thrust had been effectively blunted , it could still muster enough adherents to create large-scale upheaval in the Holy Land . |
| 26 | Her work has been very much as ‘ back-room ’ for her husband in his political career , and jointly with him in their shared interests — two books on the church architecture of London and one on Northern Lazio in Italy . |
| 27 | Charlotte 's response to her discovery had been so instinctive , and the action it had prompted her to take so urgent , that it was not until late afternoon , aboard a train drawing ever closer to Paris , that she began to consider the difficulties and possible consequences of the task she had set herself . |
| 28 | Lisa felt duly chastened , though her remark had been quite innocent . |
| 29 | And her reaction had been rather revealing , she was thinking . |
| 30 | Her reaction had been quietly puzzled . |