Example sentences of "been [adv] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the American evidence suggests that this growing familiarity with APRs has been rather an abstract affair . |
| 2 | The policy has been only an equivocal success . |
| 3 | Er , as you know , I have n't been exactly an enthusiastic supporter of neighbourhood erm areas , but I have to confess |
| 4 | A section of the company 's annual report discussing future prospectives indicates that facilities management at CGI has traditionally been more an auxilliary activity than a driving one . |
| 5 | Tucker , who is due to retire in the autumn , said : ‘ I regard the honour as a tribute to the work of Navy News staff past and present , and I 'm particularly proud of the fact that ours has always been virtually an in-house production . |
| 6 | I was tempted to call it a day there and then , pull over and have a kip , but my stomach reminded me that I had n't thrown it a bone since the ploughman 's at lunch-time , and it had been quite an eventful day . |
| 7 | The presentation had been quite an unnecessary proceeding , as she and Uncle Orrin Tunstall had agreed , seeing that she had met and known both the King and Queen since she was ten years old and had first visited England with her mama and papa . |
| 8 | This has been quite an incredible month and not just for me . |
| 9 | I have n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing , but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the university and to sort of expand my contacts , and the Meeting House is one of those places which is open to the general public on Sundays for religious worship . |
| 10 | I had n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the University and to sort of expand my contacts . |
| 11 | It 's , it 's a hefty tome , but , some encyclopaedias run to about you know , fifteen volumes , so it must have been quite an editorial job actually . |
| 12 | He must have been quite an enterprising businessman , my great-grandad , because he ran the butter cart in Baldersdale . |
| 13 | Furthermore , because technology has been primarily an add-on input to enrich the student 's experience , there arc few , if any , examples one can point to where it has improved system productivity . |