Example sentences of "have been [adv] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has virtually no ball skills whatsoever , and has been completely anonymous every time he 's played for England . |
| 2 | From there it has been downhill all the way . |
| 3 | Well , you never go in an unrealistic influencing situation , and er , the other one would have said , well , we 've had situations where it has been very much a line type decision . |
| 4 | Well , I had to ramble about something — the list has been really quiet the last few days . |
| 5 | Edwin , ’ she added , without moving her gaze , ‘ Louisa has been so great a comfort to me I can hardly bear this parting . ’ |
| 6 | Anyway , I 'd been very busy the day before and Doreen had irritated me for other reasons . |
| 7 | There ca n't have been above half a dozen universities teaching drama and Bristol was the only one that was really reputed then . |
| 8 | The map gives some prominence to Lincoln and also names Lindsey ( meaning either the later Lindsey or possibly the county of Lincoln ) , and the map 's patron must have been just such a well-educated man with Lincolnshire connections as Richard de Bello , who was an MA . |
| 9 | If the original figures totalled 120,000 men of military age , together with 100 professional soldiers , the entire population would have been nearly half a million , which again tallies well with other indications in the text . |
| 10 | Two-nil up at home against moderate opposition — it would have been downhill all the way for most teams . |
| 11 | It should have been downhill all the way for retired Shetland Pony Selwyn , instead it turned out to be downbeat . |
| 12 | Scattered later evidence suggested that Wealden superstitions died hard ; indeed , it may have been as potent a force in determining local beliefs as organised Christianity at least until this present century . |
| 13 | I am not certain of the date when the Navy finally abandoned the general use of hammocks , but to my mind it must have been as retrogressive a decision as that taken when abandoning the tot of ‘ Nelson 's blood ’ at 12 noon every day ! |
| 14 | During his time in the Army he had been exemplary as far as conduct in battle and general discipline were concerned , but he would not have been as traditional a British soldier as he was if he had n't stretched a principle or two during life in barracks . |
| 15 | Standing at the corner of Great Tower Street and Seething Lane , in the very shadow of the Tower of London , All Hallows must have been as impressive a building then as it is today : one of the oldest parish churches in the City , it has always had close links with the Tower itself , and was used as a place of burial for many an unfortunate wretch executed on the nearby scaffold . |
| 16 | Such an outcome would have been so great a blow to Edward II 's prestige that he decided to throw all his resources into reaching the garrison and destroying the besiegers . |
| 17 | It would not have been so light a thing to her if Hotspur had been among those dour-faced lordlings clattering through the streets of Shrewsbury with their shame . |
| 18 | ‘ The Russian Revolution ’ , Russell wrote in March 1917 , ‘ has stirred men 's imaginations everywhere and has made things possible which would have been quite impossible a week ago . ’ |
| 19 | Even during our period a great part of agriculture was conducted in ways which would have been quite familiar a hundred , even two hundred years earlier , which was natural since striking results could still be achieved by generalising the best methods known to pre-industrial farming . |
| 20 | But the GR-1 's predecessor , the GR-50 , may have been too complex an answer to the guitar synth dilemma , being notoriously awkward to program and none too performance-friendly into the bargain . |
| 21 | Over-awed , converted both by her persuasion and her gold , Boult remains in prose ( any change would have been too great a transformation ) , yet agrees to help her . |
| 22 | " Well , no , he did n't actually , that would have been too good a story . |
| 23 | Had the plaintiff been shot , then this would have been too remote a consequence and causation not established . |
| 24 | For me , suicide would have been too active an act . |
| 25 | ‘ This money would have been very useful a year ago after the Teebane massacre because two families lost their only breadwinners . ’ |
| 26 | Later , two men took me into a corner and fired questions at me for what seemed like ages , but can only have been about half an hour . |
| 27 | And could have been once all a con . |
| 28 | But in a more important sense he would be wrong , for there is no such person as he had in mind and I would have been there all the time . |
| 29 | That you should have been there all the while and me not know it all this time ! |
| 30 | It must have been there all the time , sitting motionless and staring straight at me from the far edge of the level area of the Grounds , but I had n't noticed it at first . |