Example sentences of "[been] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Football had been a traditionally rowdy and sometimes violent game , but as a regulated spectator sport it provided novel opportunities for conflicts between the players , referees and fans , and there is a well documented history of pitch invasions , attacks on referees and players , and fighting between rival fans throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century and into the new century . |
| 2 | Such a conclusion is not warranted : there does not appear to have been a clearly distinguished inner group and the more important men were not always those able to leave Westminster to travel with Henry . |
| 3 | Even Signe had been a little nervous about that , especially with the four of us inside it , for the ice would not last a lot longer . |
| 4 | Just because I may have been a little short-tempered of late — ’ |
| 5 | Mrs Carson had been a little apprehensive about their visit . |
| 6 | We had been a little apprehensive about our chosen date as the May Fair was in full swing in the streets of Leominster , but everyone managed to reach the right car park and transport their offerings for a bring and buy produce stall which raised over £30.00 for the College Appeal . |
| 7 | ‘ But , given your aunt 's absent-mindedness , do n't you think it might have been a little premature to call in the police ? ’ |
| 8 | She professes to having been a little sad when it all ended , but stressed that all involved are still friends — to the point , indeed , where Trevor Hutchinson is now a lynchpin of her own band . |
| 9 | It , er , it might have been a little awkward for me — meeting someone who might … might be waiting for a bus , or a taxi . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps I 've been a little obtuse , Fran . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ No , indeed , ’ he answered gravely , although he had been a little shocked if truth were told . |
| 12 | She had let me see a draft of it , and I fancied that she had been a little timid about the dénouement , which was death in a motor accident , and feared that her own terrible anxiety over her son in the past might have inhibited her . |
| 13 | But then the whole encounter had been a little surprising . |
| 14 | ‘ I could have been a little hasty in my diagnosis , ’ Arty allowed with an embarrassed smile . |
| 15 | Digital Equipment Corp realises that it may have been a little hasty in taking its toys away in a huff , and has returned to the Technology Plc fold by re-appointing the Warrington-based company as a value-added reseller for predominantly desktop and server products : DEC withdrew its business , when Technology was acquired by ICL Plc in July 1992 ( CI No 1,966 ) ; Technology has now joined DEC 's Corporate Reseller Programme , and , according to DEC UK 's director of complementary solutions organisation sales , Ian Smith , the company is expected to ‘ play a key role in our increasingly value-added reseller-led product selling strategy ’ . |
| 16 | Now that I think about it , his behaviour had been a little odd . |
| 17 | She thought : I should at least have been a little drunk . |
| 18 | Personally , I think she could 've been a little cleverer , lyrically . |
| 19 | The threads of this chapter have so far been a little diffuse . |
| 20 | And that would 've been a little unwieldy , would n't it ? |
| 21 | I have always been a little suspicious of dealers . |
| 22 | Erm , well as you probably know Bolton , Boltonian , may be regarded as rather parochial but erm we 've always been a little suspicious about Manchester and there probably are n't very many Boltonians you take the Manchester Evening News regularly because we have our own Bolton Evening News . |
| 23 | And that is also why , speaking for myself , I have always been a little suspicious of what is described as ‘ purposive ’ construction , at least in cases where the purpose is not self-evident , although authority has compelled me on more than one occasion to apply it . |
| 24 | The girl must have been a little older , also dark-skinned . ’ |
| 25 | Maybe , if she had been a little older or more sophisticated , she might have been able to cope with what had seemed at the time to be a never-ending series of disasters . |
| 26 | I began to think she would be worthy in time of being my mistress , which till now I had been a little scrupulous about . |
| 27 | Her taste , which had never been for understatement , influenced his , which had always been a little austere . |
| 28 | Ted had been a little belligerent at first but a couple of hints that Pascoe had seen him drinking in the Club earlier and an oblique reference to the breathalyser test had calmed him down and made him most co-operative . |
| 29 | He had enjoyed being able to tell Sunil all about it at lunch , though he had been a little worried by the way Sunil had then gazed at Gooseneck throughout the meal with evident hero-worship . |
| 30 | The man behind the desk would have been a little younger than himself . |