Example sentences of "[adv] been [prep] a [adj -er] " in BNC.

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1 This in itself would hardly have been significant had it not been for a wider transformation of the adult male working class .
2 But I do not think any traveller has ever been in a worse situation than I was then .
3 The investment of research and management resources to build up to a Chinese market has usually been at a higher cost than would be tolerated elsewhere .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Mr Gavron believes that the company has never been in a stronger position .
7 He has never been in a stronger position since he entered Parliament in 1984 — and he is not 40 until May .
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