Example sentences of "[adv] [been] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He had long been in a bad state of health , which he took no care to repair but on the contrary lived in such a manner as greatly promoted the disorders he had had long upon him , this brought on the Flux which put a period to his life ’ ( Cook ) . |
| 2 | Anyway , I 've not been in a black cab in years . |
| 3 | They 've not been in a flat |
| 4 | The Midland Centre for Neurosurgery and Neurology is the only centre in the United Kingdom able to provide such a pioneering operation which is only available through the N.H.S. If Mr. Thorpe had not been in a fortunate position of being able to register with a G.P. in a different Health Authority , he would not have had his operation . |
| 5 | In 1979 , the Cabinet of twentytwo contained only seven ministers ( Edwards , St John-Stevas , Younger , Nott , Biffen , Carlisle , and Maude ) who had not been in a previous Cabinet . |
| 6 | Only one symptom , a persistent cough , was reported more often for those who had not been in a residential home — 24 per cent compared with 10 per cent of those who had spent some time in such a home . |
| 7 | Taking all types of respondents together their ratings were similar for people who had not been in a residential home at all and those who had been in one for a year or more , while those who had only spent part of the last year of their lives in a residential home were generally felt to have had a worse quality of life : for 39 per cent of them it was rated as poor compared with 27 per cent of the other two groups . |
| 8 | Wall 's ( 1986 ) evidence suggests that there have been fluctuations over time in patterns of who actually shares households , but that these have not been in a single direction . |
| 9 | Her nerves had already been in a bad enough state . |
| 10 | Claimants for social welfare provisions have not always been in a good position so far as procedural protection is concerned . |
| 11 | Examination of the metal showed that it had always been in a clean condition with no evidence of corrosion , suggesting that it had never been buried . |
| 12 | But I do not think any traveller has ever been in a worse situation than I was then . |
| 13 | As anyone who has n't been in a media-induced coma over the last ten years knows , her trite ditties are irrelevant to the story — IM |
| 14 | I only ask this question because devotees of this composer have probably never been in a better position to acquire a good cross-section of his output on disc . |
| 15 | The communists had never been in a better position than they were in in , in nineteen forty eight , the civil war was , was clearly going in their favour erm they were to achieve power within eighteen months and at precisely the point where they had everything going for them , they are adopting the most moderate policy . |
| 16 | I was terrified because I had never been in a proper prison before , and I had heard about Styal . |
| 17 | Mr Gavron believes that the company has never been in a stronger position . |
| 18 | He has never been in a stronger position since he entered Parliament in 1984 — and he is not 40 until May . |