Example sentences of "have [been] so [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tim Mackie has explained to me that the organisation has been so successful gathering together items of rolling stock , track and equipment that there are not enough members available to operate trains and work on the infrastructure at the same time . |
| 2 | George Soloway has been so busy making money that he has been unable ‘ to commit himself to another human being ’ . |
| 3 | I 'd been so good sea sick . |
| 4 | She had been so busy avoiding touching him , she had not even noticed it was there . |
| 5 | For an eagle who had been so ill Minch was doing a good job being terrifying . |
| 6 | Lately , you 've been so busy bullshitting your way through the world that you 've started swallowing the stuff yourself . |
| 7 | Here in Ulster , we 've been so busy saying that we are British that we have lost our true identity . |
| 8 | ‘ I think they only knew this morning , and you 've been so busy being cross — ’ |
| 9 | The Irish have been so busy praying for the winners that they must have forgotten to ask for the right weather . |