Example sentences of "have been [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd be su I would 've been such a wreck last night if that , if Foxy had done that to me .
2 ‘ Because my love life has been such a mess ! ’
3 This popular hotel has been such a success with Club 18–30 that we 're delighted to feature it again as our Club Choice for summer ‘ 90 .
4 It has been such a success within the company over recent months that JT Design Build are now making it available throughout the construction industry and to the industry 's clients .
5 By contrast Celtic had a goal in hand for much of the match and put together many passages of the passing game which has been such a feature of recent matches .
6 The extent to which there has been such a departure is well shown by the fact that , when the World Council of Churches was originally formed in 1948 , the basis of that Council ( to which churches which wanted to join must subscribe ) read : ‘ The World Council of Churches is a fellowship of churches which accept our Lord Jesus Christ as God and Saviour . ’
7 If that programme has been such a failure , why do we now have 30 programmes targeting support for identifiable industrial priority areas , and why are there almost 200 collaborative research programmes ?
8 Thirdly , if there has been such a form of duress leading to a contract for consideration , I think that contract is a voidable one which can be avoided and the excess money paid under it recovered .
9 There has been such a growth in direct dealing that fish is only getting sent to Billingsgate when no one else wants it . ’
10 Mrs Thatcher has been such a figure and , in spite of reverses , she has animated and directed governments with a sense of political direction .
11 One of the great successes of the F-Plan method has been such a meal , a kind of home-made muesli , called Fibre-Filler .
12 But Cooper was unfortunate to appear before the disciplinary committee at a time when it was under increasing pressure to eradicate the high , late tackle that has been such a scar on the game this season .
13 In case you think I have been having a merry old time , I 'd better tell you also that I have been staying up to the small hours as there has been such a lot of preparation to do , and the course participants have also been keen to make use of our presence by asking all kinds of questions about English etc. , so this is literally the first free time I have been able to make since I have been here .
14 There has been such a reaction around the world that there may be some hope .
15 Dwyer , who guided the Aussies to World Cup victory last year , insists : ‘ There has been such an improvement in Welsh rugby it could be us who go in as underdogs . ’
16 It must also be said of Poland that its society has been most resistant to Communist influence and , that of all East European countries , the gap between the state and its society has been greatest The LWP has not gone out of its way to act as the arbiter of events ; rather , it has had this role thrust upon it by Party factionalism and weakness .
17 Yes but surely if you 're saying in combating Chinese collaborators , settling accounts with landlords and reducing rents and interest , the people have seized the land directly from the landlords thus realizing the principle of the land to the tiller where the mass movement has been thorough the land problem is being or has basically been solved .
18 Even when an in-house team has been successful the changes in many local authorities have been significant , costs have been cut and management has adopted more competitive attitudes .
19 When the lessons from the pilot survey have been fully learned alterations can be made where necessary , but if the work done prior to the pilot has been adequate the alterations consequent upon it should not be great .
20 and then other , like this morning I woke up about quarter to seven , well I 'd been awake a while but I thought I 'd came to at quarter to seven I went down and make some tea and having breakfast
21 In court he also stated he 'd been unaware the cannister , legal on the continent , was an offensive weapon in Britain .
22 This is his final total after he 'd been all the way round St Aldate 's , he went round 73 houses , and he says here , I think this is a sort of hieroglyphic that would probably mean something like 'item' .
23 But if it 's just been brought out of the calf pens , fresh muck when it 's been spreaded in , and you know that tummy muscles , along mucking out the calf pens , they 'd been all the winter on this , getting tighter and harder , all through the winter .
24 She was sitting calmly in bed like that 's where she 'd been all the time .
25 Seeing as he 'd been such a pain , I was a little slow going to his rescue .
26 She 'd been such an idiot , had n't she ?
27 She 'd been half-expecting a trial and then a labour camp but instead , there was an ambulance .
28 If someone had told him that he 'd been angry a moment before , he would 've denied it .
29 ‘ In theory , I suppose , the nearest piece of fruit could have been doctored , but I do n't see myself how the murderer could have been sure the victim would have picked it . ’
30 Think it must have been all the cleaning and dusting I did . "
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