Example sentences of "have been [adv] [adj] [adj] " 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 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 1980s , therefore , Lacanian psychoanalysis , often in combination with some brand of semiotics , has been pretty well dominant in Anglo-American feminist film theory . |
| 4 | The hon. Gentleman has been exceptionally churlish this afternoon . |
| 5 | Saturday has been deliberately left free so that the ladies can do as they please , either in and around Peebles , or perhaps venture to ‘ Auld Reekie ’ , our beautiful capital city of Edinburgh . |
| 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 badly shocked last night . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He 'd been so busy that afternoon that he 'd completely forgotten to call her . |
| 21 | And when I was when I got to New York , I was met by two first cousins from two different families er Bert who 's er er nephew of my my mother 's sister Laura Anne in in New York , and another one , William who 'd been very successful vice president of or something . |
| 22 | But anyway , she went to so she had she she was n't she 'd been very pro American until I decided I was gon na emigrate . |
| 23 | He must have been pretty close all the time . |
| 24 | ‘ He 's very active and would have been pretty fit first time out . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ It was pure sex , and I should never have been so damn crazy ! |
| 27 | Nicola Field , once a member of the first lesbian and gay production group , Converse Pictures , now working as a freelance researcher , has been able to maintain her focus on sexuality and lesbian and gay politics in a way that might have been more difficult five or ten years ago . |
| 28 | Similarly , the need to generate foreign currency has stimulated tourism in regions that would have been virtually inaccessible 15 years ago . |
| 29 | Indirect trade with the Soviet Union was worth about US$128,000,000 in 1989 , having been virtually non-existent two years previously . |
| 30 | ‘ You mean he would n't have liked to be an invalid having been so healthy all his life ? ’ |