Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the soldiers in the field must 've been thoroughly sick of all those whining pieces about Our Boys and Girls , and their mail , or the endlessly recycled nonsense about how hard it was to be a female soldier in Saudi Arabia . |
| 2 | Everybody says , ‘ Oh , you won £44,000 in the world championships , you must 've been really pleased with that , ’ but it 's not just the money , it 's being able to pick up the trophy at the end — that 's the nice thing . |
| 3 | so they must 've been fairly sure of their support to allow them to come into an area of villages . |
| 4 | There must 've been with erm in forty seven was it the encirclement campaign where they allowed the nationalists to sort of drive through the , I do n't know the defences , they must 've been fairly certain of their support in certain areas by then . |
| 5 | Strangely , nobody said anything , but the culprit has been notably absent from subsequent holidays . |
| 6 | I say minimal both because it is rather modest , in contrast say to Jakobson 's , and because it seems to present a demand that it should be very difficult for modern literary studies to deny : that in describing the language of literary texts a degree of rigour is required such as has been notably absent from the work of a great many critics . |
| 7 | For a man who was leading the campaign for sanctions against South Africa , when that was still a hopeless liberal cause , he has been notably diffident about such things as collective punishment and detention without trial in the Israeli-occupied territories . |
| 8 | This has been partly due to the new and attractive packages offered to depositors , and partly due to the increase in competition in the sector since the interest rate cartel was ended a few years ago . |
| 9 | The toxicity of some drugs has brought the status of the pharmaceutical industry to its lowest ebb yet , and has been partly responsible for a virtual stampede away from chemists towards health shops . |
| 10 | This seems to be the maxim of those who use the library and information service which has been even busier in the last session . |
| 11 | Ronny replaces Swindon-striker Fjortoft for the game tonight — Ronny must have done well in the training sessions ( coach Olsen really put some value on how the players perform in training before the games ) and Fjortoft which has been even worse for Swindon than Deano for us might have a hard time to get the attacker place back ( Fjortoft 0 — Deano 3 — Cole 10 is n't it ? ) . |
| 12 | 11 , everything happening in the present case has been no more than one stage in a continuing contest between the prosecutor and the applicant in a matter which from the outset has been exclusively criminal in nature . |
| 13 | BILL CLINTON has been painfully slow with most appointments , but he has moved faster than George Bush did in 1989 to find a chairman for the Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) . |
| 14 | Britain has been notoriously ineffective in dealing with offences like financial fraud , market manipulation and insider dealing . |
| 15 | Tom Polacheck , of the US NMFS , who has been closely involved with the harbour porpoise entanglement problem , believes that the incidental taking of harbour porpoise is an example of the problems that face both the marine scientist and society , in that both marine animals and commercial fisheries are highly valued and represent issues of concern to various segments of society . |
| 16 | Andrew Clark of the Derby and Derbyshire Chamber of Commerce ( which has been closely involved with the Toyota deal ) said that the UK was attractive because of ‘ the corporate climate brought about by this Government . |
| 17 | Open Forum is to be a conference-led event with both technical and business streams , designed to lead up to 1993 and the establishment of the single European market — and the Commission of the European Communities has been closely involved in its organisation , says Borkovsky , promising more details in the future . |
| 18 | In recent years Applied Linguistics at Edinburgh has been closely involved in the organisation of international seminars and conferences . |
| 19 | As manager , Assessment Operations , Mike has been closely involved in establishing the detail of the model and in the methods of scoring and assessing applications . |
| 20 | The Romanian leader 's brother , Lieutenant General Ilie Ceausescu , a deputy defence minister and head of political administration for the armed forces , has been closely concerned with the presentation of the historical case and has unhesitatingly attacked the Hungarians in several articles published in the Romanian press . |
| 21 | Other authors have suggested that it has been the process of secularisation which has been most central in giving rise to moral protest groups . |
| 22 | It must also be said of Poland that its society has been most resistant to Communist influence and , that of all East European countries , the gap between the state and its society has been greatest The LWP has not gone out of its way to act as the arbiter of events ; rather , it has had this role thrust upon it by Party factionalism and weakness . |
| 23 | The Commission has been most helpful in authorizing Commissioners — or more usually senior officials — to travel from Brussels to give oral evidence in public . |
| 24 | However , the organization of rural workers has been crucial to the formation of the Salvadorean opposition movement and political repression has been most savage in the countryside . |
| 25 | Campion has been most industrious in routing out items in the archives of radio stations . |
| 26 | But so far , this type of biological control has been most successful in China , where plentiful labour is available for intensive rearing of natural enemies . |
| 27 | Erin talks about the joy the mindless child brings her — well , so it may , but her love for it has been most destructive for others . |
| 28 | Her repertoire includes lieder and oratorios , though she has been most active as an opera singer . |
| 29 | The first sign of the present pattern of occurrence is detectable as early as the winter of 1953/54 , but an increase has been most marked since the winter of 1961/62 . |
| 30 | This assumption has been most conspicuous in the context of experiments comparing manual response times with vocal reaction time . |