Example sentences of "[been] [prep] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diana arrived at Sandringham that weekend having just been through a most traumatic period . |
| 2 | New Zealand 's economy has probably been through a more dramatic recent revolution than that of any other Western country . |
| 3 | My mum and dad had been through a very bad divorce , so I suppose she was frightened of being too strict and pushing me away , in case I turned against her . |
| 4 | Everyone in the Administration Centre has been through a very steep learning curve . |
| 5 | The great , I mean , you 've a valid point and I think it 's due to the recession in America , I think we were disappointed were we not Bruce , that the results of our trip to er , New York State , and this has nothing to do with the enthusiasm of the business people we met there , everything to do , in my view , with the fact that the recession , and America 's been through a very tough recession , they just do n't look to expand elsewhere , but the reaction we had in , in er , in America was very , very powerful of , of a wish to want to do something when things look better . |
| 6 | Ian Gilmour , deputy social work director , said : ‘ He has been through a very bewildering experience in the past 36 hours , and he is not aware of all that has happened , including the tragedy of his mother 's death . ’ |
| 7 | They have obviously been through a very bad time over the last few days and it is n't going to get any better over the next few weeks . ’ |
| 8 | I mean the Festival box-office staff and the unseen technical staff and — well , in short , the Festival would have collapsed long ago , had it not been for a wonderfully large number of people who join us year after year — just because they love the Festival and want to do their best for it , and work all hours for it . |
| 9 | The Allied attempt to force the passage of the Dardanelles with capital ships on 18 March could well have succeeded , had it not been for a seemingly insignificant event . |
| 10 | First , it was easier for a disembodied voice like de Gaulle to " assume " France than it would have been for a more recognizable figure , about whom people had already formed settled views . |
| 11 | If no organic being excepting man had possessed any mental power , or if his powers had been of a wholly different nature from those of the lower animals then we should never have been able to convince ourselves that our high faculties had been gradually developed . |
| 12 | The most exciting discovery this year has been of a very fine Umbrian crucifix of around 1250 hitherto completely concealed by mediocre seventeenth-century painting optimistically attributed to Titian in the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | In the Trocadero large quantities of objects were displayed in a crowded , haphazard fashion , and , while Picasso was undoubtedly overwhelmed by what he saw and experienced , the impression he carried away with him must have been of a very general , metaphysical kind . |
| 14 | He personified the pre-war amateur at his peak , a kindly engaging man who was well placed to have been a major influence in the game had he been of a more forceful character . |
| 15 | The disruption which farmers and landowners have faced has been of a somewhat different kind : they have suffered a loss of their traditional authority over the village population which they once took virtually for granted . |
| 16 | The effect of these Standing Committees has been that debates have been of a much more highly focused and objective quality . |
| 17 | At the end of her eight-week course at the ICO she declared that the experience had been like a very deep well with pure water . |
| 18 | There can be little doubt that , had Jack Alderson been with a more glamorous or more successful club , he would have gained many more International caps than the single honour awarded to him when he played for England against France in Paris on 10 May 1923 . |
| 19 | On his day Gerry was as good a centre-forward as any in the land and would almost certainly have won a string of Scottish International caps had he been with a more successful club . |
| 20 | Elizabeth Schwarzkopf was another " must " even though the ticket cost a " phenomenal amount " to the girl whose own first public appearance had been in a best dress made from the contents of the poor box . |
| 21 | The Irish Lions selector , Ken Reid , who arrived yesterday in Edinburgh for a selectors meeting , must have been in a reasonably good frame of mind after Saturday 's contest . |
| 22 | Until then , newspaper coverage of the Royal Family had been in a fairly lengthy decline . |
| 23 | And I must have been in a really funny mood , and I said yes we have it 's on the till and he went well I suggest you get them in the windows then ! |
| 24 | I had n't been in a very good mood when I started out on this journey . |
| 25 | As we have seen , old St Paul 's had been in a very poor state of repair even before 1640 , and had suffered further damage as a result of the events of the 1640s before being fatally weakened by the Great Fire . |
| 26 | Ostensibly more compelling is the argument that if British manufacturing industry had matched insurance , banking , and allied financial services , in terms of international competitiveness , the economy would have been in a very healthy state indeed . |
| 27 | In Cuba , for example , ‘ figures of the Wars of Independence , like Marti and Maceo , or of the 1933 revolution [ against the dictator Machado ] … give the revolution legitimacy by linking it with the historic past and , at least in the case of the heroes of 1933 , they have been in a very real sense the inspiration of the present revolutionary leaders , to a far greater degree than Marx and Lenin' ( Lambert : 1977 , p. 237 ) . |
| 28 | However , if that election had been fought under some system of proportional representation then the Conservatives would have had a majority over Labour but would have been in a very substantial overall minority since the Liberals and Social Democrats would have held 160 or so seats . |
| 29 | Six years ago , Chambers had been in a very small way of trade , on the outer fringe of the dozens of banks that belonged to the London Clearing House . |
| 30 | Erm is one they 've been in a very similar position to in so much as competition 's forced them to cost down dramatically I mean |