Example sentences of "been [adv] [adj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now that I 'd forced myself to take it all out of its cobwebby cupboard and look at it remorselessly from start to finish , I knew I had been instinctively wise not to do it before . |
| 2 | What planetary body could have been sufficiently hot internally to generate igneous magmas so recently ? |
| 3 | Now I 've been much happier not to have Mrs. Thatcher around . |
| 4 | There had been so much else to do : such as leaving a brief note for Julie , and also contacting her office to explain the problem and that she 'd be in touch with them as soon as possible . |
| 5 | ‘ I suppose it seems like that , but it would have been silly to say no when he was prepared to come , after I 'd been so sad not to see him . |
| 6 | She had never even asked if there was a photograph of her father , and she supposed they had been so careful not to upset her that they had never offered one . |
| 7 | ‘ It might have been more diplomatic not to mention that possibility . ’ |
| 8 | The structure of the developing national authority has been both diffuse enough to prevent it from being destroyed by any one single sweep of arrests ( there have been more than 50,000 arrests since the Intifada 's outbreak ) , and coherent enough to allow for the existence of a unified resistance strategy . |
| 9 | I 've been particularly impressed today to learn how people come here every year , particularly for this meeting and of all the various ways in which money can be raised . |
| 10 | She would have been quite content simply to stare at the house for hours , and she was still sitting there when Alain opened her door and bent to look in at her . |
| 11 | She had been there on sufferance for so long and yet she had never been quite brave enough to break free , to launch out by herself . |
| 12 | I would have been quite happy just to have been on the bench for the entire championship but , as it turned out , I had another big incentive in that as Gary might not play for the rest of the Five Nations there would be four internationals available if I proved good enough ’ . |
| 13 | Tabitha liked it well enough as it was , though she remembered better days , not so many years ago , when the jazz bands in the bodegas had been almost loud enough to drown the furious rattle of the old spice prospectors playing mah-jongg . |
| 14 | Optical disks have only been around long enough to test the integrity of stored date for ten years , but some manufacturers will give a guarantee of 50 years , achieved by artificially ageing the disks . |
| 15 | Only veteran Phil Carrick has been around long enough to tell them that 45-year-old Robinson was one of the hardest working and most likeable players ever to wear a Yorkshire cap . |
| 16 | In fact , there is only one car that has been around long enough to have reached an affordable price on the secondhand market — the Ford Sierra XR4x4 2.8i . |
| 17 | This is neither essential nor necessarily healthy for , by now , Koi-keeping in this country has been around long enough to develop a culture all its own . |
| 18 | Well , yes , I suppose , in a ‘ how long is a piece of string ’ sense that enough piranhas — and I do n't suppose anyone 's ever been around long enough to count — could together commit such acts of savagery . |
| 19 | Well the men although they may not have realized they were thirteen must have been pretty stupid not to realize they were perhaps below consent age . |
| 20 | It has also been very difficult indeed to establish any reliable differences in sleep profiles between different sorts of people — men versus women , the extroverted versus the introverted or the intelligent versus the unintelligent . |
| 21 | Mm , must have been very difficult then to get around sometimes then |
| 22 | Knowing that they would make fun of him , he had been very careful not to say her new name in front of Tom Fish . |
| 23 | I have naturally been very careful not to discover anything about it , but I have a feeling that she has commissioned little tributes from friends and childhood recollections from my sisters . |
| 24 | I myself have been very careful not to tell you where they live , and I am not about to tell you now . |
| 25 | because I think women have traditionally been very reluctant both to report domestic violence and hearing echo 's of what women are saying here , in terms of women looking into their own behaviours , to why it is happening rather than er having it labelled as a crime and I think one of the , the , the main thrust of the project , the women involved in is to raise the profile of domestic violence into being a criminal act . |
| 26 | We would n't have found it difficult to reconstruct the exchange even if we had been too far away to hear what was said . |
| 27 | Too many parents have been too afraid ever to acknowledge the real state of our affairs to their children . |
| 28 | Indeed , if anything , they seem to have been too demoralised politically to organise effectively at anything more than a local level , and that in itself is testimony to the devastating effect of the Kulturkampf and Polenpolitik . |