Example sentences of "have [be] [adv] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The month-old ‘ final offensive ’ has been most successful this year because a split that erupted last August among rebel ranks has not yet been patched up in the face of Khartoum 's assaults . |
| 2 | The hon. Gentleman has been exceptionally churlish this afternoon . |
| 3 | There is , in fact , no hard evidence to show that rural depopulation has been socially selective either way . |
| 4 | The Passport Agency has been very successful this year in speeding up the processing of passport applications . |
| 5 | But he has been very loving this summer and much cast down by the failure of the Italian cause and I will not grudge him a livelier time of it in Rome . |
| 6 | With grass knee high and crops waist high , like most clubs , our ‘ Finds Table ’ has been almost empty this summer . |
| 7 | so you just wan na revisit it and say oh I 'm sure you found this document has been really useful this evening and out of those five areas we discussed , you might wan na consolidate it a bit , which was the one that excited you the most and that 's your retirement savings you know |
| 8 | I think I should start by stressing the process through which we have gone in order to prepare this report has been somewhat different this year from that which we followed in the past and |
| 9 | He 'd been badly shocked last night . |
| 10 | He 'd been so gentle that morning when he must have seen he had hurt her feelings , and she felt good inside that she had seen the more gentle , considerate side of him . |
| 11 | He 'd been so busy that afternoon that he 'd completely forgotten to call her . |
| 12 | And when I was when I got to New York , I was met by two first cousins from two different families er Bert who 's er er nephew of my my mother 's sister Laura Anne in in New York , and another one , William who 'd been very successful vice president of or something . |
| 13 | ‘ He 's very active and would have been pretty fit first time out . |
| 14 | Erm that might have been as well another reason for selling to friends , erm because most of the stuff we bought anyway was new so that does n't really come into it . |
| 15 | But with the process of assembling Lebanon 's surviving deputies having been so difficult last time , a repeat performance seems to be impossible . |
| 16 | Their bruised shoulders and backs reminded them that the cai and the French assistants had been particularly vicious that morning . |
| 17 | The fields were spread thick with buttercups and the may blossom which had been particularly plentiful this year was beginning to turn and fall . |
| 18 | Of those temporary workers who did not want a permanent job , nearly half ( 47 per cent ) had been economically inactive one year previously , and less than two per cent had been unemployed . |
| 19 | She had been badly hurt some time ago , but her body was dealing with that . |
| 20 | If it had been less populated open country the application may not have been refused . |
| 21 | It became known that we were perilously short of hay because the haytiming on our pastures had been very poor that summer and it was impossible to bring enough in on the horse-drawn sledge on the few occasions we were able to get out . |
| 22 | Rather unfairly , as he had been very nice that morning , it was a few minutes before I remembered there was a third guest present . |
| 23 | ‘ He told me he had been very upset that day . |
| 24 | It had been very hot all day ; they had had exams in the morning and she had done badly because she felt so tired . |
| 25 | He had been very kind this morning about the murder . |
| 26 | ‘ And then Crom Croich eats the hearts , ’ said the soldier , and Cathbad , who had been very busy all afternoon supervising the skinning and jointing of an ox and had been planning to serve braised ox heart for tomorrow 's midday meal , turned quite green and tried to remember if they had any salted pig left . |
| 27 | The chief ambulance officer , Mr Don Page , said last night that they had been very busy all day , and that their use would continue indefinitely — ‘ until ambulancemen and women in South Yorkshire resume normal working ’ . |
| 28 | But that was only because she had eaten nothing since last night and had been so furious this morning about her father 's gall in writing that damnably cheerful letter . |
| 29 | Shame to disturb his toilette , when he had been so meticulous that morning . |
| 30 | She had been so happy that day . |