Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] been [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they 'd only been a few inches longer ; or perhaps if his upper body was n't so big then his legs would n't be so noticeable . |
| 2 | Because they could have turned round Er they would n't have got as much done if there 'd just been the two boys together . |
| 3 | He 'd always been a superb judge of character , but now he doubted himself . |
| 4 | From the old man , you see he 'd always been an old I L P man and er I remember when Harris put up for parliament in the Rushcliffe division . |
| 5 | He had seemed certain to become the first black Tory MP , representing Cheltenham — Norman Tebbit had tipped him as the first black cabinet minister and there 'd even been the odd hint that he might one day inhabit No 10 . |
| 6 | She 'd never been a raving beauty , it was true , but at the moment she looked a wreck . |
| 7 | She 'd never been a proper mother and I hated the way she was acting with that man . |
| 8 | However , by adept diplomacy , he was able to impose a form of pax Britannica on what had hitherto been a turbulent part of Africa and thereby maintain the conditions best suited for fostering trade . |
| 9 | There was further a need to replace what had hitherto been a haphazard method of payment by a more formalised scheme involving the payment of a specified sum on the completion of each flat . |
| 10 | ’ As the influence of Cézanne grew , so that of Gauguin , who had hitherto been an important influence in the work of the Fauves , waned . |
| 11 | A report published in Le Monde on Sept. 19 noted that Egypt 's earnings from workers overseas had hitherto been the main source of foreign exchange receipts , amounting to over $2,000 million per year , of which $500 million came from workers in Kuwait alone . |
| 12 | He had rendered her almost mindless there and it had all been a cheap trick , not even part of his wish to get her to accept her father . |
| 13 | Now she finally had to admit that it had all been a total failure . |
| 14 | It had all been a far cry from the excitement of her engagement to the handsome young houseman when the Stevenses had celebrated with a party in the garden of their home . |
| 15 | Perhaps it really had all been a terrible misunderstanding . |
| 16 | And as if it had all been a bad dream , Tara wakes up soon after . |
| 17 | It had all been an enjoyable game , and she had always imagined that love would be an enjoyable game as well , except that there was nothing enjoyable about the pain eating away at her . |
| 18 | In the Titan he had only been a partial paladin — merely part of a vaster amplified body which also comprised Tundrish and Valence and Zed Juron and , oh yes , Akbar too . |
| 19 | But Derek Law , deputy director of the SSD , said there had only been a few teething problems . |
| 20 | He 'd closed his eyes once in the last forty hours , and that had only been a restless doze in the back of the car on the way to the border . |
| 21 | It had only been a brief talk and nothing improper was intimated . |
| 22 | He was walking towards a new life , a kind of freedom which had only been an idealistic daydream for nearly sixty years . |
| 23 | At a personal level the visit had obviously been a great success , but Napoleon III came away without any specific extension of the Entente and he left the British Ministers unconvinced of his desire for peace and stability in Europe . |
| 24 | The first sessions had obviously been a useful learning experience for all concerned . |
| 25 | Of course , Jessamy 's arrival on the scene as Julius 's fiancée had obviously been a major crisis . |
| 26 | And it had been little comfort to realise — since he clearly could n't be bothered to even make the effort to get in touch with her — that her marriage had obviously been a disastrous mistake from the very beginning . |
| 27 | He could smell the drink ; it had obviously been a heavy session . |
| 28 | They had obviously been the Russian barracks , with officers and men quartered there . |
| 29 | It had long been a controversial issue and its approval had been delayed for years because of worries about the environmental consequences and the cost of the project . |
| 30 | In the printing trade , mobility had long been a traditional element in the organization of mutual support . |