Example sentences of "he have been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Although she had come to dislike Dr McNab , believing him to have been indirectly responsible for her father 's death , she remained constantly at his side , helping him to care for the sick and wounded . |
| 2 | I would judge him to have been about thirty-seven or eight . |
| 3 | Her smile seemed to him to have been almost aloof , perhaps even disapproving . |
| 4 | He then realised that he had already seen his son some distance from the door and that his conviction that it was him had been totally irrational . |
| 5 | Her response to him had been totally instinctive , nothing to do with anything she had read or seen . |
| 6 | But there had been no spirit in him , the shock of what his father told him had been too great . |
| 7 | With a rush of emotion she could n't put a name to Luce realised that her first instinctive feeling about him had been absolutely right . |
| 8 | But those women closest to him have been singularly unlucky . |
| 9 | The people around him have been very receptive , although I must confess to an anxious moment when he was first being introduced to the players . |
| 10 | He has been enormously successful , but in a quiet world . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He has been similarly evasive in answering questions about his marital fidelity and marijuana use . |
| 13 | Since then , despite having played cricket almost endlessly , he has been astonishingly consistent , averaging over fifty both in Tests and overall . |
| 14 | He has been particularly keen on educational pursuits . |
| 15 | This naturally gives him a tremendous light-grasp , but his main work is in hunting for new comets and new exploding stars or novæ , in which he has been remarkably successful ( his present total is five comets and four novæ ) , and there are not many people who will attempt anything like this . |
| 16 | He has been remarkably successful . |
| 17 | He has been here eight years . |
| 18 | He has been most anxious to meet you . |
| 19 | He has been most supportive and indeed we have the Canon to thank that our Centenary Celebrations have taken the form they have , and I think you will agree it has been a very fitting culmination to our 100 years history . |
| 20 | He has been most generous in giving way . |
| 21 | Not to mention the fact that he has been conspicuously faithless to me . |
| 22 | This season he has been equally prolific . |
| 23 | But as a master of the ‘ sound bite ’ quote he has been surprisingly unconvincing in this campaign . |
| 24 | He has been primarily responsible for the current European Union Treaty ( EUT ) which has effectively distilled a political idea into political practice . |
| 25 | He has been so successful at keeping his private life private that it took six months for the world 's gossip columns to find out that he married his long-term girlfriend Phoebe Cates , star of the Gremlins films . |
| 26 | On a wall in the showhouse at Les 's flagship Bryn Colwyn estate at Penmaen Head , Colwyn Bay , are the awards which he has been so proud to win over the years . |
| 27 | He has been so accurate , some claim , that they have dubbed him the ‘ historian of the future ’ . |
| 28 | The distinctive orange , yellow and black bike was a Christmas present for the youngster , but he has been so weak because of chemotherapy treatment that he has been able unable to ride it . |
| 29 | He has been so encouraging . |
| 30 | The writer of this book has to confess that so far he has been so hidebound by tradition that he has not yet brought himself to write key-signatures for the horns , but he admits that the only argument in favour of this is that the lack of signature acts as a guide to the conductor 's eye in spotting the horn parts in the score . |