Example sentences of "been [adv] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | Of those temporary workers who did not want a permanent job , nearly half ( 47 per cent ) had been economically inactive one year previously , and less than two per cent had been unemployed . |
| 3 | He 'd been badly shocked last night . |
| 4 | She had been badly hurt some time ago , but her body was dealing with that . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | If it had been less populated open country the application may not have been refused . |
| 7 | Opposition MPs claimed that there had been only one small bookmaker in favour and that everyone else had either objected or been neutral . |
| 8 | His wife was named Mary and there appears to have been only one surviving child , a daughter . |
| 9 | Clark revealed that there has been only one official bid for Keane since the end of the season — a £3.5 million verbal offer from Rovers which Blackburn 's chairman Robert Corr subsequently confirmed in writing to Forest chairman Fred Reacher . |
| 10 | Apart from our own prospective studies there seems to have been only one other approach to rectal mucosa in gluten sensitivity based on a retrospective analysis of intraepithelial lymphocytes material obtained 25 years previously . |
| 11 | Although the discontinuity in economic policy from the Heath Cabinet ( 1972 — 4 ) is remarkable , there has been only one dissenting resignation from her Cabinet , partly on grounds of her style as well as policy ( that of Mr Heseltine over Westland in January 1986 ) . |
| 12 | There had been only one obvious course of action — and that had been to raise the necessary sums by selling the family estate . |
| 13 | Despite the fact that there have been many reports describing the central effects of neuropeptides on gastric and pancreatic secretion , there has been only one previous report of the effects of a centrally acting peptide on biliary secretion . |
| 14 | To the best of my knowledge there has been only one sustained examination of mass production undertaken by someone using a psychoanalytic perspective . |
| 15 | The species rarely nests in extensive grass marshes , where , during much systematic study of other species , there have been only four recent summer records . |
| 16 | First , customs have been extremely successful this year with record seizures of Ecstasy . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 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 | It is surprising therefore , that there has been so little public interest in this country in proposals to release into the environment living , man-made creatures . |
| 20 | than if it had been so much inert luggage . |
| 21 | Perhaps it has really been so much hot air . |
| 22 | Experts say there has never been so much free time available to so many people . |
| 23 | There could have been so much important material in what has been called " The Domesday Book of the Highlands and Islands . " |
| 24 | There could have been so much important material in what has been called " The Domesday Book of the Highlands and Islands . " |
| 25 | This is largely because there has always been so much more speculation than information about the personal stability of Perry Farrell . |
| 26 | because they 've been so much more technology , you know , since it 's started |
| 27 | ‘ He 's been so good all night . |
| 28 | But that was only because she had eaten nothing since last night and had been so furious this morning about her father 's gall in writing that damnably cheerful letter . |
| 29 | All she could see was Felipe 's face , his dark eyes , the laughter that had been so ready this morning . |
| 30 | Shame to disturb his toilette , when he had been so meticulous that morning . |