Example sentences of "[verb] been [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , the , the speeds would 've been higher as well . |
| 2 | it came , it did it almost came to a halt again and it could 've been dangerous as well you , children in the back , two children in the back ! |
| 3 | ‘ If it 'd been my missus , I 'd 've been relieved that someone else was taking an interest . |
| 4 | It would 've been awful if they 'd found my things in the car . ’ |
| 5 | It would 've been better but erm I think that these terms have now become so widely known there 's , there 's no way of changing it back . |
| 6 | You 'd 've been alright if it 'd 've been a mass murderer slept for years . |
| 7 | I hate to think how much money I have paid over to Anglia Gas if I 'd known what I was into I could have walked into that house then and I could , while I had all that money before I gave any away I could have said , right , I 'm going to have to spend that , that , that , that and that and I would have done it and it would have I would 've been alright because I would n't have had things going wrong ! |
| 8 | morning , but it must 've been alright because er he was going off with David , I said you got tablets for him and she said yeah plenty of stuff for him , anyway , he seemed , he looked alright anyhow |
| 9 | And the barrel would 've been more or less , well about that in height sir . |
| 10 | I 'd 've been quicker if I 'd gone down into Brentwood , picked up the M twenty five and gone on the A one M |
| 11 | I think that bloke coming off the ladder with the buckets of paint would 've been funnier than them |
| 12 | It would 've been easier if I got into dealing again , but I ca n't afford any more heavy scenes with the law . |
| 13 | ‘ You must 've been surprised when I answered the door . ’ |
| 14 | President Mitterrand of France ( and he 's not alone in this ) has been anxious that too swift a move to reunify the two Germanys could destabilise Gorbachev , something that could spell disaster not only for the West but for the balance of world power . |
| 15 | A girl who has been shy or awkward can become quite self-possessed as she cares for her new baby . |
| 16 | Lord Lane personally rejected the second appeal of the Birmingham Six in January 1988 saying , in words which returned to haunt him : ‘ As with many cases referred by the Home Secretary to the Court of Appeal , the longer the case has gone on , the more this court has been convinced that the jury was correct . ’ |
| 17 | There are hopes that help may be forthcoming later , once the SAC has been convinced that the orchestra 's recent problems have been resolved . |
| 18 | Though some big firms have boldly marched eastward , investment in the former East Germany has been slower than expected . |
| 19 | The group acknowledge that Scotland has been slower than the rest of the country to produce credible dance music . |
| 20 | The Green Paper points out that the pace of change in auditing has been slower than will be required . |
| 21 | A pharmaceutical salesperson will discuss with doctors the problems which have arisen with patient treatment ; perhaps an ointment has been ineffective or a harmful side-effect has been discovered . |
| 22 | Speed has been essential because the Secretary of State 's timetable is formidable ( see below ) . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ Up to now , the Irish-American lobby in the US has been unfocused and largely impotent in relation to the Anglo-Irish conflict . |
| 24 | Moreover , the process of financial liberalization in Japan has been gradual and therefore a simple ( 0 , 1 ) dummy variable will not suffice . |
| 25 | For nearly twenty centuries , the figure known as Judas Iscariot — Judas the Sicarius — has been accursed and despised , cast in the role of most heinous of villains . |
| 26 | In practice , the MMC has sometimes reported against foreign takeovers as contrary to the public interest , but the reasoning has been other than a desire to stifle competition ( e.g. the report on Government of Kuwait/British Petroleum , 1988 , which decided that it was contrary to the public interest for the Government of Kuwait to gain a major shareholding in BP ) . |
| 27 | We are looking at that , but to suggest that there has been other than a clear and steady increase in available services would be a travesty of the truth . |
| 28 | The offer of shares in the group , which was listed on the USM this week , has been two and a half times oversubscribed . |
| 29 | ‘ Matador has been two and three tenths ( of a knot ) over every boat here ’ , said Dennis Conner , summing up both the last regatta of the series — the Moët & Chandon Grand Prix in St Thomas , Virgin Islands — and the two previous regattas , in Newport ( RI ) and Miami . |
| 30 | However , it has been good that , thanks to the work of Ronnie Martin and his helpers , we have been able to have some use of the building on Sundays for our expanding Learning Together programme . |