Example sentences of "have been [adv] [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has virtually no ball skills whatsoever , and has been completely anonymous every time he 's played for England . |
| 2 | From there it has been downhill all the way . |
| 3 | Well , you never go in an unrealistic influencing situation , and er , the other one would have said , well , we 've had situations where it has been very much a line type decision . |
| 4 | Edwin , ’ she added , without moving her gaze , ‘ Louisa has been so great a comfort to me I can hardly bear this parting . ’ |
| 5 | Anyway , I 'd been very busy the day before and Doreen had irritated me for other reasons . |
| 6 | Two-nil up at home against moderate opposition — it would have been downhill all the way for most teams . |
| 7 | It should have been downhill all the way for retired Shetland Pony Selwyn , instead it turned out to be downbeat . |
| 8 | Scattered later evidence suggested that Wealden superstitions died hard ; indeed , it may have been as potent a force in determining local beliefs as organised Christianity at least until this present century . |
| 9 | I am not certain of the date when the Navy finally abandoned the general use of hammocks , but to my mind it must have been as retrogressive a decision as that taken when abandoning the tot of ‘ Nelson 's blood ’ at 12 noon every day ! |
| 10 | Standing at the corner of Great Tower Street and Seething Lane , in the very shadow of the Tower of London , All Hallows must have been as impressive a building then as it is today : one of the oldest parish churches in the City , it has always had close links with the Tower itself , and was used as a place of burial for many an unfortunate wretch executed on the nearby scaffold . |
| 11 | Such an outcome would have been so great a blow to Edward II 's prestige that he decided to throw all his resources into reaching the garrison and destroying the besiegers . |
| 12 | It would not have been so light a thing to her if Hotspur had been among those dour-faced lordlings clattering through the streets of Shrewsbury with their shame . |
| 13 | ‘ The Russian Revolution ’ , Russell wrote in March 1917 , ‘ has stirred men 's imaginations everywhere and has made things possible which would have been quite impossible a week ago . ’ |
| 14 | But the GR-1 's predecessor , the GR-50 , may have been too complex an answer to the guitar synth dilemma , being notoriously awkward to program and none too performance-friendly into the bargain . |
| 15 | Over-awed , converted both by her persuasion and her gold , Boult remains in prose ( any change would have been too great a transformation ) , yet agrees to help her . |
| 16 | " Well , no , he did n't actually , that would have been too good a story . |
| 17 | Had the plaintiff been shot , then this would have been too remote a consequence and causation not established . |
| 18 | For me , suicide would have been too active an act . |
| 19 | ‘ This money would have been very useful a year ago after the Teebane massacre because two families lost their only breadwinners . ’ |
| 20 | Later , two men took me into a corner and fired questions at me for what seemed like ages , but can only have been about half an hour . |
| 21 | And could have been once all a con . |
| 22 | That you should have been there all the while and me not know it all this time ! |
| 23 | But in a more important sense he would be wrong , for there is no such person as he had in mind and I would have been there all the time . |
| 24 | It must have been there all the time , sitting motionless and staring straight at me from the far edge of the level area of the Grounds , but I had n't noticed it at first . |
| 25 | It could have been there all the time . |
| 26 | ‘ I would definitely like to have been there all the way at the start of history , at the start of human beings , to see all that happened . |
| 27 | In east Germany and Prussia , for example , the peasant was not quite so poor as elsewhere , but he was disciplined to the estate by legal devices which seem to have been as powerful a stimulus to rural emigration as poverty . |
| 28 | Three days later Ainsworth went to the landlord , Liverpool Housing Trust and said he had been illegally sub-letting the flat . |
| 29 | He was an opportunist , who took advantage of the chances fate laid out for him , and this last weekend had been just such an example . |
| 30 | From that point onward , it had been downhill all the way . |