Example sentences of "have [been] [adv] [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | However , Mrs Thatcher is by no means a typical prime minister ; her approach to the job has been quite unlike that of most of her modern predecessors who , with one or two exceptions , have adopted a less ambitious , more pragmatic consensual style . |
| 3 | Our experience here has been quite unlike that of the Shanghai group last year , in that everyone seems to have fallen over backwards to make the course unpolitical . |
| 4 | I was favoured with your letter and should have been glad to embrace this opportunity of sending a packet of seeds to Dr. Manetti of Florence , but the season has been so cold that but few of them have ripened as yet , but if the next month proves favourable , I hope to send him some in November , if you have any opportunity to convey them . |
| 5 | He 'd been so gentle that morning when he must have seen he had hurt her feelings , and she felt good inside that she had seen the more gentle , considerate side of him . |
| 6 | He 'd been so busy that afternoon that he 'd completely forgotten to call her . |
| 7 | The rate seems to have been about half that of an ordinary return and was perhaps a day ticket , although no mention of that condition is made . |
| 8 | Their bruised shoulders and backs reminded them that the cai and the French assistants had been particularly vicious that morning . |
| 9 | It became known that we were perilously short of hay because the haytiming on our pastures had been very poor that summer and it was impossible to bring enough in on the horse-drawn sledge on the few occasions we were able to get out . |
| 10 | Rather unfairly , as he had been very nice that morning , it was a few minutes before I remembered there was a third guest present . |
| 11 | ‘ He told me he had been very upset that day . |
| 12 | Shame to disturb his toilette , when he had been so meticulous that morning . |
| 13 | She had been so happy that day . |
| 14 | The wine , I mean ; the vineyard and vintage , um … whether it was south slope or the soil had been especially acidic that year . " |
| 15 | You 've been here all that time ? |
| 16 | Oh well you had to notif take doctor 's note in you see , oh yes er doctor 's note and erm we were allowed , but erm fortunately I did n't have to have much time off , I 've been really fortunate that way , but erm I do n't think I would do anything that 's different to what I have done because it 's hard to prepare me for how I am now that 's how I look at things , and er the trouble I had with my husband it 's helped me to prepare myself for doing the garden , I 'd done the front garden when the gardeners came this morning . |
| 17 | Conditions in Evin have been so appalling that three women prisoners committed suicide in December . |
| 18 | I 've been working in the sextry for four years and he 's been there all that time . |
| 19 | Now really but erm this year 's been so peculiar that |