Example sentences of "[been] [adv] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and er , I get on the courses is the fact that that is very good attendance sort of thing for you to see T N T Express has been rather than a depot . |
| 2 | As numerous objectors pointed out , the amount spent annually by the government on research into renewable energy has been less than a tenth of the spending on nuclear research . |
| 3 | After two hours , I reached firmer ground but became concerned that I could not see a four hundred foot escarpment which , according to the map , should have been less than a mile ahead . |
| 4 | As she passed through the channel there had been less than a foot clearance between the ship 's sides and the concrete wharf . |
| 5 | I realise that I had been less than a block away , watching the drugstore explode . |
| 6 | Had it really been less than a month ago ? |
| 7 | ‘ Never have you been less than a living spirit . ’ |
| 8 | the motive was to steal scrap metal from the company the amount of metal would have been less than a couple of hundred pounds so quite a minor incident in itself . |
| 9 | Withdrawal of labour , in the literal sense , would have been impractical and , more importantly , would have caused further destruction to my self-esteem in that without work ( schoolwork ) I should have had and have been less than the nothing I already felt myself to have and to be . |
| 10 | The girls who had been in since the start of the war had cornered the market in stripes . |
| 11 | Maxim drove it slowly , en-joying the first real countryside he had been in since the hot weather began . |
| 12 | However , given that the disclaimer of responsibility is valid under the UCTA , it is hard to see why such a solution , which puts the buyer in a better position than he would have been in if no express remedies were available , should fall foul of the UCTA . |
| 13 | Work is ‘ split off ’ very often from the rest of life and it has been so since the beginnings of industrialisation . |
| 14 | The airmen who they belonged to , is believed to have been away when the things were taken . |
| 15 | But the Foss men were famously militant , they had been ever since a young minister with lordly tastes and little scholarship had been foisted on them by the laird twelve years before and they had first boycotted him , then run him down the road on a cart . |
| 16 | It had been more than a long time , Erika reflected . |
| 17 | IN HIS unorthodox pilgrimage there has been more than a normal share of ill-will , resentment and litigation . |
| 18 | The ‘ new ’ systems being used in the Gulf have all been more than a decade in development . |
| 19 | It seems to me now that I must have been more than a little simple , because I received a telephone call from the home the very next day . |
| 20 | Yet he felt convinced it had been more than a dream . |
| 21 | If the police had not given us the benefit of the doubt , I should have been more than a little proud to go to jail in his company , together with the Cup . |
| 22 | The loser then was Ray Laccohee who might well have been more than a match for Dale overall had he played more competition golf . |
| 23 | Mary was holding a tiny fawn , and it could n't have been more than a few days old . |
| 24 | With a child 's resilience she had quickly adjusted to the loss of her mother , who had never been more than a glamorous appendage on the periphery of her world , and Sally had stepped in to fill the breach more than adequately . |
| 25 | An officer for nearly 40 years , he should have been more than a match for a 24-year-old civilian but the first brush between the two sides , though neither commander was present in person , suggested otherwise . |
| 26 | The smallest insect alive during the Age of Dinosaurs must have been more than a million times smaller than Brontosaurus . |
| 27 | Benjamin must have been more than a little interested by all the information this sheet of paper contained , principally because he had scarcely known his own father , who had died before he was two years old . |
| 28 | Thus when the prince outlined to Anne his plan for a secret rendezvous with Joan , she had been more than a little piqued . |
| 29 | Nevertheless it is my belief that without us , feminism would never have been more than a caucus of the broad left . |
| 30 | Since the press seem to take any and every chance they can to doubt his ability to play , this article , and indeed all your support over the last few months , has been more than a pleasure to read . |