Example sentences of "been [adv] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she had n't been dead already the shock of his going to prison would have killed her . |
| 2 | This is demonstrated most clearly in the lengths to which the courts have been excluded from the process , even though they have been only rarely a threat to the Thatcher Government . |
| 3 | It did hold us up I mean we would have been down there a lot quicker if we had n't had |
| 4 | ‘ Mick and Carla have been together quite a lot . |
| 5 | And , as had been so memorably the case with the Punjab , the proof of the pudding was found to be in the eating . |
| 6 | He did not enjoy it as he had the fishing that had been so much a part of his life on La Blanquilla . |
| 7 | ‘ The Nightingale ’ provides a record of one of the evening walks shared by Coleridge and the Wordsworths which had been so much a part of their lives together . |
| 8 | She had been so much a part of his plans for the future that he was now thinking of countries where they could farm together . |
| 9 | Seb thought she looked thinner and seemed to have lost much of the air of confidence that had always been so much a part of her . |
| 10 | The baby is well and so am I. You have always been so much a mother that I am not surprised that you feel like a grandmother , even without ‘ legal sanction ’ . |
| 11 | Even as Acheson pondered the problem Smith argues that the US was already moving toward support of the French although it might not have been so much a matter of whose hand was on the tiller as how the compass was being set . |
| 12 | I had just taken up my position behind the till of the kitchen gadget department and the store had been open only a matter of minutes when my first customer literally ran into view . |
| 13 | He had been away nearly a year , had lost his mother , and was glad to leave Paris ( ‘ which I loathe ’ ) . |
| 14 | Standing in the dawnlit hall of Calatin 's house , Taliesin knew that for Fergus this had been not just a venture , a battle for the Fiana , but something much deeper . |
| 15 | THE trial of three businessmen accused of exporting arms-making equipment to Iraq turns out to have been not just a farce but a scandal . |
| 16 | If Eliot had been formed by St Louis , then we should remember that for him St Louis had been not simply a city , but also ‘ the beginning of the Wild West ’ . |
| 17 | This seems to have been not quite the case , though one of his ancestors did emigrate to Canada in the seventeenth century and become a beaver-trapper . |
| 18 | The Brahmins who , thanks to the British , had been not merely a caste but a class , declined in economic status , and a new bourgeoisie appeared consisting of better-off farming families . |
| 19 | The occasional aberration in judgment aside , the curbing regulation has been not merely a success but possibly the finest piece of administration in modern times . |
| 20 | For her the multi-media scheme has been not only a counter to depression but also a means of exercising aspects of her intellect and imagination . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been home almost every evening . |
| 22 | Yeah well I mean I saw him what , either a fortnight or three weeks ago , three , probably about three weeks , and at that stage my plaster that I 'd had on after the er op had only been off perhaps a fortnight , it was Christmas intervening you see , so he had every sort of right to say , you know , oh well yeah it should be okay , yeah . |
| 23 | Until 1955 it had been under virtually no pressure to modify its stance . |
| 24 | But you must have met him , he 's been up here a couple of times . |
| 25 | He said you 've been up here an hour and half ! |
| 26 | Lionel , who had been up now a week at Flaxthorpe : ‘ Naturally . |
| 27 | she must have a few of them , she 's been up there a while |
| 28 | I know you 've been up there a lot lately . |
| 29 | Frank Sinatra , pacing the sound stage in his elevator shoes , explained they had all been up late the night before and that their performance might leave something to be desired . |
| 30 | She had been up late the night before working on her account books . |