Example sentences of "have [been] [verb] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He or she has been eating a very large quantity of food and has recently embarked on a calorie-counting slimming programme . |
| 2 | While the hon. Gentleman has been travelling up and down the country assuring the training and enterprise councils of his support , the hon. Member for Fife , Central , his fellow Front-Bench spokesman on these matters , has been singing a somewhat different tune . |
| 3 | From the Blake Babies to ‘ Hey Babe ’ , JULIANA HATFIELD has been crafting a deceptively sweet , unnervingly direct antidote to foxcore screaming . |
| 4 | The Silkience Hair Range , well known for its self-adjusting formula , has been given a completely new look . |
| 5 | She wore a faintly sly and greedy look , like a child who has been promised a rather disreputable treat if it 's good . |
| 6 | ‘ Louise has been doing a very limited amount of training because of her exams , ’ said Charles Stuart , her father and coach . |
| 7 | A LASMO-operated group has been awarded a highly prospective block in Yemen , adjacent to major discoveries . |
| 8 | Thus from a very narrow and restricted expression there has been drawn a very wide and unrestricted principle , all based on the assumed purpose of Parliament and the perceived absurdity of seeking to effect it by the language in which Parliament actually chose to express it . |
| 9 | Even ( some might say especially ) in purely trading terms , Britain has been paying a very high price for her membership of the EEC . |
| 10 | Along with many aspects of Society organisation , the Teacher Training Course is always under review , Last year , to offset the Sports Council 's view that our training takes too long , we embarked upon Course II , which has been following a more intensive schedule . |
| 11 | Wilkinson , who might have been sporting a more cheerful expression this morning but for a number of glaring misses by Eric Cantona , said : ‘ Whipping the people responsible is not the answer . |
| 12 | Had he been there earlier he might have been asked a less direct question . |
| 13 | In my view this case provides a dramatic vindication of the decision to consult Hansard ; had your Lordships not agreed to do so the result would have been to place a very heavy burden of taxation upon a large number of persons which Parliament never intended to impose . |
| 14 | With 20 : 20 vision , hindsight is very easy , but if only some of the things that are now happening at Asfordby had been accepted more readily a few years ago , we might well have been having a very different debate today . |
| 15 | Dudley Ford had his suspicions and the police seemed to have been doing a pretty thorough job on him … but Doug Wilson believed that Shergold lacked the nerve and she was inclined to agree with him . |
| 16 | Also in the last months before the war Lloyd George appears to have been contemplating a more direct assault upon the Poor Law which had been almost unchanged by the Reports of the Royal Commission in February 1909 . |
| 17 | However , he had been using a slightly different definition of a black hole . |
| 18 | All in all , Mo had been given a pretty torrid time by the nation 's voters . |
| 19 | Mildred , however , had been given a rather dim-witted tabby because there had n't been quite enough black ones to go round . |
| 20 | She murmured that Nicola Sharpe had told her editor that she had been given a really good story by someone in the Drugs Squad . |
| 21 | Before the first day of the project , both groups had been given a very general outline of the activities in which they would be involved . |
| 22 | His eyes seemed to fasten on her immediately and Maggie had the irritated feeling that he had been given a very uncomplimentary description of her . |
| 23 | I had been given a very short time to assimilate the books of poetry and to write the review : a time-limit that would have been almost impossible for me to meet today , so much more sluggish has my mind become ; but I felt that if Eliot thought I could do the job , it was doubtless within my capacity . |
| 24 | It came about because , after an early night in the same bed as that slept in by the Prince , Dr Johnson , who had a cold and had been rendered a little deaf by it , ‘ spoke of Prince Charles being here , and asked Mrs Macdonald , ‘ Who was with him ? |
| 25 | Most analysts had been expecting a more gradual approach to the complex rationalisation required by the Zeneca split and the recession 's effects on trading . |
| 26 | At that moment the door to the next room , which had been left a little ajar , opened and a slim , petite woman came in , elegantly dressed in a blue crêpe de Chine suit that echoed the colour of her eyes . |
| 27 | Even though they were retired , they had been leading a very active life . |
| 28 | The poster had been pinned onto a large wooden board to the top of which had been affixed a very small Lebanese flag . |
| 29 | In this particular case , of course , I had been set a slightly extraordinary task , but I had nevertheless not been neglectful to incorporate ‘ margins ’ wherever possible . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been sent a very favourable letter from the council and there now looks to be no problems on that score , ’ added Deakin . |