Example sentences of "has [adv] been a very [adj] " 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 | ‘ This has not been a very good day , but at least I am still leading the championships , ’ said Mansell . |
| 3 | But the purchasing power parity theorem has not been a very successful explanation over short periods because in practice large discre-pancies in real exchange rates have emerged . |
| 4 | To my mum who along with my dad helped me my daughter , who I 'm very proud of as now she 's started taking greater interest in G M B. To my mum who at the moment does n't enjoy the best of health , who over the years has had to endure a daughter who , er , on some occasions has not been a very great help to her , has guided me through very difficult times , as mums always do . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ The council has always been a very moderate spender in the past and we should be able to undertake new initiatives this year . |
| 7 | ‘ 3D seismic data is critical for resolving subsurface uncertainty , but providing the data has always been a very slow and costly process , ’ he says . |
| 8 | Michael has always been a very hard worker and has filled every minute of every day with activity . |
| 9 | It has n't been a very good day for me . ’ |
| 10 | Just sort of er telling Frank he has n't been a very good friend and things . |
| 11 | Investment banking although this year it 's a very different difficult environment for investment banking particularly a house that concentrates on , on corporate finance er there has n't been a great deal of M and A activity and if , if there has it has n't been a very high erm very high ticket . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |