Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] been a [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Water of Leith must once have been a clear and sparkling river . |
| 2 | This sort of transient simulation , which up to now has been a difficult and expensive exercise , brings an improved understanding of the behaviour of multiphase flow lines . |
| 3 | This tendency has steadily increased , and alongside it there has been a different but related tendency , as combine and corporate ownership have become much more common in book publishing . |
| 4 | In order to understand what they had found they needed to classify the fossil organisms into particular kinds , more or less similar , to impose an order on what would otherwise have been a vast and chaotic mass of different and apparently unrelated relics . |
| 5 | His thick-set holler lifts what might otherwise have been a cool but minor diversion into a work of real significance . |
| 6 | If the Man of Law had a prose tale it should certainly have been a serious and learned tale like Melibee , the Parson 's Tale , or Chaucer 's translations of Boethius ' De consolatione philosophiae or Pope Innocent III 's De miseria condicionis humane , and thus a tale of the kind that found a place in fragment VII . |