Example sentences of "[adv] been a very [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has long been a very popular venue for cruise-ship parties , the descent to Monte or to Funchal being made by toboggan . |
| 2 | Erm , but it 's obviously been a very trying time for them . |
| 3 | I myself would seemingly represent the environmental lobby , but there have been others , many ex-members of Harwell , who have been campaigning for a long time now , many years , to get these reactors shut down , and it has just been a very long slog , and eventually the truth has had to come to light to shut these reactors down . |
| 4 | ‘ The council has always been a very moderate spender in the past and we should be able to undertake new initiatives this year . |
| 5 | ‘ We have always been a very tired family , ’ Finch said loftily to Henry , both aged twenty-eight , Finch lying back in a large bed with his cello on his ex-girl friend 's pillow and Henry standing up by the gas fire . |
| 6 | He had always been a very religious man , which had helped him a lot in the Corporation . |
| 7 | ‘ And he 's always been a very busy man . ’ |
| 8 | Even at school , Liz had always been a very gifted painter . |
| 9 | Michael has always been a very hard worker and has filled every minute of every day with activity . |
| 10 | But in many ways you 've always been a very old-fashioned girl . |
| 11 | Since I 've been involved in er , in the partnerships we 've always tried to have a joint number one with Three Hills and Church Langley as I explained before and it 's always been a very difficult balancing act you know , to keep both going along . |
| 12 | Mr Steinberg had also been a very busy man when the other candidates debated the health service but , as a former headmaster , had found time to attend the education debate . |
| 13 | She had clearly been a very good-looking woman when younger , and even now was handsome ; paradoxically , the artifices she employed to emphasise this were the very features to strike a false note . |
| 14 | In Britain , despite the development of forms of democratic political institutions , the idea of an independent and consequential public opinion had never been a very serious consideration . |
| 15 | The Church of England is also responsible for some homes , but unmarried mothers have never been a very popular cause for charity funding , and therefore these often depend mainly on local funding . |
| 16 | Insulating homes well has until fairly recently been a very low priority , both for housebuilders and for the legislators who frame the Building Regulations . |
| 17 | There has recently been a very considerable interest in the effects of mood on memory , see for example the volume of papers edited by Kuiken ( 1991 ) . |
| 18 | There had recently been a very bad storm , leaving mud everywhere , and it seemed the sewers had overflowed in Saffron Hill , for the filth was worse than she had ever seen it . |