Example sentences of "have been [adv] [adj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The month-old ‘ final offensive ’ has been most successful this year because a split that erupted last August among rebel ranks has not yet been patched up in the face of Khartoum 's assaults . |
| 2 | ‘ Hyde has been here all this time why did n't he destroy this will ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Unfortunately I can not join you , because I am expecting a very old friend of my family , who has been here all these years , ’ she said . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | The hon. Gentleman has been exceptionally churlish this afternoon . |
| 6 | There is , in fact , no hard evidence to show that rural depopulation has been socially selective either way . |
| 7 | ‘ He has been absolutely stoic all the way through . |
| 8 | The Passport Agency has been very successful this year in speeding up the processing of passport applications . |
| 9 | But he has been very loving this summer and much cast down by the failure of the Italian cause and I will not grudge him a livelier time of it in Rome . |
| 10 | It has been very good all the way . |
| 11 | With grass knee high and crops waist high , like most clubs , our ‘ Finds Table ’ has been almost empty this summer . |
| 12 | The intervention period has been too short All children learn at different rates . |
| 13 | so you just wan na revisit it and say oh I 'm sure you found this document has been really useful this evening and out of those five areas we discussed , you might wan na consolidate it a bit , which was the one that excited you the most and that 's your retirement savings you know |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I think I should start by stressing the process through which we have gone in order to prepare this report has been somewhat different this year from that which we followed in the past and |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He 'd been so busy that afternoon that he 'd completely forgotten to call her . |
| 20 | He must have been pretty close all the time . |
| 21 | Erm that might have been as well another reason for selling to friends , erm because most of the stuff we bought anyway was new so that does n't really come into it . |
| 22 | ‘ You mean he would n't have liked to be an invalid having been so healthy all his life ? ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Their bruised shoulders and backs reminded them that the cai and the French assistants had been particularly vicious that morning . |
| 25 | The fields were spread thick with buttercups and the may blossom which had been particularly plentiful this year was beginning to turn and fall . |
| 26 | She had been badly hurt some time ago , but her body was dealing with that . |
| 27 | Still , to look on the bright side : if they had been together all this time , by now they might already be a dull settled couple , instead of which the long separation had preserved the thrill of courtship in their marriage , with letters passing between them constantly . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Rather unfairly , as he had been very nice that morning , it was a few minutes before I remembered there was a third guest present . |
| 30 | Nigel had been very healthy all his life and , apart from a slipped disc and the odd bout of ‘ flu , had never been incapacitated for more than a day or so . |