Example sentences of "[been] [adj] and [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Several contractors have had it and it 's never been right and eventually a few days or weeks later a man comes round to pick up the grass which has already flown everywhere so it 's too late and a wa total waste of money .
2 Wycliffe said : ‘ In 1931 , as I work it out , Garland would have been twenty-one and already a husband and father . ’
3 The finish was as accurate as the rest of the Belgians ' efforts had been wayward and suddenly the numerical disadvantage Rangers were working under threatened to be a severe handicap .
4 Had more companies been honest with themselves a dividend passed completely would have been better and then a new base could have set at a suitable level .
5 Moreover , the process of financial liberalization in Japan has been gradual and therefore a simple ( 0 , 1 ) dummy variable will not suffice .
6 She feels the union has been ineffectual and even the so-called industrial action four years ago when members refused to set or mark exam papers seemed , quite unjustifiably , to be taking things out on the students .
7 The bag has been far and away the smallest in my lifetime .
8 Russell Reynolds was the last of the Big Four to enter the London market — in 1972 — but has been far and away the most consistently successful .
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