Example sentences of "have [been] [adv] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of all the hedges I 've seen they 've been about eighteen two foot , about that far apart |
| 2 | That 's not bad at all cos you thought it might 've been about nine hundred with them other two did n't you ? |
| 3 | ‘ My wife has been dead these two years . |
| 4 | The month-old ‘ final offensive ’ has been most successful this year because a split that erupted last August among rebel ranks has not yet been patched up in the face of Khartoum 's assaults . |
| 5 | ‘ Hyde has been here all this time why did n't he destroy this will ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Unfortunately I can not join you , because I am expecting a very old friend of my family , who has been here all these years , ’ she said . |
| 7 | Talisman ( WA-8-L ) : Production from the Talisman field to date has been approximately 7.5 million barrels of oil . |
| 8 | For instance , in British women who married before the age of 20 , the proportion of marriages that ended in divorce has been approximately double that of the marriages of women who married between 20 and 24 ( Office of Population Censuses and Surveys , 1978 ) . |
| 9 | There has been yet another substantial increase in resources for the NHS , and that will enable a continuing reduction in waiting lists and better service for all those who use the NHS . |
| 10 | 1980s , therefore , Lacanian psychoanalysis , often in combination with some brand of semiotics , has been pretty well dominant in Anglo-American feminist film theory . |
| 11 | The hon. Gentleman has been exceptionally churlish this afternoon . |
| 12 | Saturday has been deliberately left free so that the ladies can do as they please , either in and around Peebles , or perhaps venture to ‘ Auld Reekie ’ , our beautiful capital city of Edinburgh . |
| 13 | There is , in fact , no hard evidence to show that rural depopulation has been socially selective either way . |
| 14 | ‘ He has been absolutely stoic all the way through . |
| 15 | The Passport Agency has been very successful this year in speeding up the processing of passport applications . |
| 16 | But he has been very loving this summer and much cast down by the failure of the Italian cause and I will not grudge him a livelier time of it in Rome . |
| 17 | It has been very good all the way . |
| 18 | Here again there has been very little systematic exploration , although such universal features of the organization of interaction are good candidates for potentially important functional pressures on linguistic structure . |
| 19 | It thus seems that there has been very little geological reworking of the Mercurian surface since the apparent planet-wide obliteration of most craters at the beginning . |
| 20 | There is , however , always a danger that her critics are really writing about themselves , defending their own positions , so there has been very little constructive criticism . |
| 21 | The incidence of bully/victim problems in schools within mainstream children has now been well-established ; however while it may be likely that children with special educational needs will be over-represented in such categories , there has been very little quantitative evidence on this point , or on which types of special needs children are most likely to be involved , in which way . |
| 22 | The kind of supervision suggested by the college could be achieved by guardianship ; yet guardianship under the Act has been very little used . |
| 23 | The problem with this is not merely that there has been very little serious thinking within multiculturalism about how ‘ cultural understanding ’ actually occurs , about its forms , mechanisms and limits . |
| 24 | ‘ There has been very little objective research into the work done by reporters and its effectiveness , ’ said Mr Miller . |
| 25 | There has been very little previous research on autobiographical memory . |
| 26 | I am sure our experience with our youngest child has been very much due to the fact that the whole family has been involved . |
| 27 | Yes , certainly , the erm place where such diagnostic systems came from , I think , was certainly the States , and most research has been done there — Stanford in particular has been very much involved in this so-called expert system . |
| 28 | It must be stressed that this is only a possibility ( and that the explanation has been very much simplified ) , but more and more researches are showing that it probably approximates to the truth . |
| 29 | Clark revealed that there has been only one official bid for Keane since the end of the season — a £3.5 million verbal offer from Rovers which Blackburn 's chairman Robert Corr subsequently confirmed in writing to Forest chairman Fred Reacher . |
| 30 | Although the discontinuity in economic policy from the Heath Cabinet ( 1972 — 4 ) is remarkable , there has been only one dissenting resignation from her Cabinet , partly on grounds of her style as well as policy ( that of Mr Heseltine over Westland in January 1986 ) . |