Example sentences of "have been a very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if I had n't met the people I 've met , I think I 'd 've been a very frustrated person cos erm , even though you can think of something , un unless , if you have other people you can go , if you say to somebody you could say , oh God , you know let's do this and this and this , or I think , really think this or this and someone else goes yes I do |
| 2 | So far the response of the private sector has been a very cautious one . |
| 3 | Also , the rain water has been a very weak acid because it links with carbon dioxide in the air . |
| 4 | He denied angrily that he had ever sought compensation of up to £1m ‘ although this has been a very expensive operation ’ , adding : ‘ I could have proceeded had I been totally selfish for there were several options on the table , financially very attractive . ’ |
| 5 | At Pagham Harbour there has been a very sharp increase from one to three pairs up to 1974 to 12 in 1976 . |
| 6 | Has my hon. Friend noticed that in recent weeks , as the public have been able to assess our present policies and our future policy offerings , there has been a very sharp and noticeable increase in our opinion poll ratings ? |
| 7 | Mr Ensoll reflects : ‘ It has been a very varied career working for the Post Office for the last 33 years . |
| 8 | It has been a very successful project indeed . |
| 9 | According to their former captain and hooker , Douglas Livingstone , McPherson 's influence both on and off the field has been a major factor in what has been a very successful season . |
| 10 | Judith Longman at SPCK has been a very supportive and sensitive editor . |
| 11 | He also presented himself to the Rehabilitation Officer and has been a very great nuisance to him … |
| 12 | In concluding , I would just like to say that it has been a very great honour to be invited here tonight to The William of Orange Memorial Hall , Belfast , as guest speaker at The Independent Shopkeeper of the Year Awards . |
| 13 | Democracy has been a very recent , delicate and somewhat sparse growth , continually threatened and often stifled by property-owning , privileged and dominant groups who are always fearful of any autonomous , unregulated incursion of the ‘ masses ’ into politics . |
| 14 | Sandra said : ‘ It has been a very worthwhile project from the health and safety aspect by a very successful QC team which has been together for almost three years . ’ |
| 15 | They are credit-wary , because their experience of credit has been a very adverse one in recent times . |
| 16 | ‘ It has been a very rough time indeed . |
| 17 | The glycosylated haemoglobin has been a very useful advance for the Type 2 patients with latently poor control . |
| 18 | Following what Gilkes admits has been a very poor year in the VME marketplace , that part of its enterprise will contribute a declining proportion of the company 's revenue as sales of the Sparcbook rise . |
| 19 | John Rawls ' A Theory of Justice ( 1971 ) has been a very influential book . |
| 20 | Indeed , at this intraregional level , too , there has been a very definite geography of deindustrialization . |
| 21 | Goldthorpe shows that , contrary to the ‘ closure ’ and ‘ buffer zone ’ theses , there has been a very substantial recruitment of males from manual working class family backgrounds into even the ‘ highest ’ strata of salaried employment . |
| 22 | Since then , it has been a very regular performer on the BR main line hauling charter trains in many parts of the country , including meeting its sister engine , 6201 ‘ Princess Elizabeth ’ . |
| 23 | The outcome has been a very stable and valuable team . |
| 24 | I am coming more and more to the view that the evolution of life , like the evolution of continents and of the stratigraphical column in general , has been a very episodic affair , with short " happenings " interrupting long periods of nothing much in particular . |
| 25 | Kelly , who has won this race three times , said : ‘ It has been a very long and hard season for me , and I feel very tired . |
| 26 | ‘ I am very sorry , ’ he said , ‘ but you must understand it has been a very long time … |
| 27 | In spite of the fact that there has been a very long tradition of work on rural land use , including the invaluable land use survey of the 1930s ( Stamp , 1962 ) , and its revival in the second survey of the 1960s and 1970s * ( Coleman et al , 1974 ) and much other detailed work from other sources ( Hart , 1980 ; Coppock , 1960a ; Best , 1981 ) as shown in Table 8. 1 , there is still a desperate need ( Hall , 1 974 , 414 ) for a ‘ national Domesday book for land use , preferably updated every 10 years at the time of the population census ’ . |
| 28 | Since then there has been a very slight reversal of this trend , but the proportions are projected to fall again by 2001 ( Social Trends 21 , 1991 ) . |
| 29 | THIS HAS been a very good week for fishermen and a very bad week for Findus , Bird 's Eye and all the other producers of frozen peas and pizzas . |
| 30 | Wigan chairman Jack Robinson said : ‘ Andy Goodway has been a very good servant of the club . |