Example sentences of "been [adv] [adj] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greg had been little better than a crook on the business front — and he had very nearly dragged her father — and his stupendous talent — down with him . |
| 2 | If his estimate of time was accurate , it would have been rather more than an hour since it had stopped . |
| 3 | Had the county council been able to use the final figures , the dwelling requirements at the end of the projection period would have been somewhat lower than the figure that we have produced . |
| 4 | For contemporaries , the charm must have been less impressive than the sense of half-realised ambitions . |
| 5 | The newcomers , mostly fishermen or peasant farmers who came as boat people , have been less successful than the first wave . |
| 6 | People with cystic fibrosis had been less successful than the general population in achieving O level or equivalent qualifications , but more successful in achieving A level or higher qualifications . |
| 7 | We have been less successful where the difficulty already has a long-standing history in our own school . |
| 8 | They must have been less pleased when a slightly sensational story got into Weekend under my own name . |
| 9 | Other churchmen , too , had ideas about the duties of Christian rulers , and may have been less convinced than the Encomiast that Cnut lived up to them . |
| 10 | He had had a charter drawn up , which presumably contained a boundary clause , but this seems to have been less significant than the authority of the witnesses . |
| 11 | There had been no horror particular to Toulouse to explain that extraordinary fear ; the battle had been less threatening than a half-dozen of the Spanish engagements , yet Sharpe had never forgotten the awful fear , nor his relief when peace had been declared . |
| 12 | From the 1870s to the 1930s , violence was ‘ pervasive and intense ’ ( Graham and Gurr , 1969 ) , but has been less common since the Second World War , with notable exceptions , such as the major coal-mining strikes of 1977 and 1981 . |
| 13 | In Britain this trend has been less marked although the more recent appointment of Sir Derek Rayner , the managing director of Marks and Spencer , as the Conservative government 's economic ‘ watchdog ’ , is significant for similar reasons . |
| 14 | Relations between the communist states had for some time been less amicable than a common dedication to working-class interests might have suggested . |
| 15 | But Mr Leonard 's injuries could have been much worse if a mystery middle-aged man had not risked his own safety and stopped the thugs ' attack . |
| 16 | Consequently , their salaries have risen infrequently , perhaps once in each Parliament , so each rise has been much higher than the typical annual pay increase . |
| 17 | They have passed through the flasks electric sparks simulating lightning , and ultraviolet light , which would have been much stronger before the Earth had an ozone layer shielding it from the sun 's rays . |
| 18 | Upon recovering , he admitted he had been extremely depressed since the death of his wife from cancer a year earlier and now did not think he had anything to live for . |
| 19 | It is the one-sidedness of privatisation of the monopoly public utilities that has been so apparent since the process started with British Telecom in 1985 that so deeply offends ordinary people throughout the country . |
| 20 | The Turkish forces , let's be clear about this , have used napalm against Kurdish villages inside the ‘ safe haven ’ which the rapidstrike force is supposedly on permanent red-alert to protect — yet there has n't been so much as a cheep from any of the elements who cheered the US-led forces into the Gulf War on the basis that regimes which defy international law and slaughter innocent people must be confronted , no matter what the cost . |
| 21 | We 're a bit understocked anyway — business has n't been so good since the trouble started . ’ |
| 22 | But it would n't have been so funny if the robbers were n't as stupid as they were and the film would n't have been so good . |
| 23 | It would n't have been so bad if the two girls in the flat upstairs were at home , but they would n't be back until the end of the week . |
| 24 | Moreover , to switch exports from soft sterling markets to hard currency countries would have been largely self-defeating because the former would then seek imports from hard currency areas thus causing a balancing drain on reserves . |
| 25 | These priests may have been more affluent than the rest of the population , but one has evidence of flesh-eating in the artisan class too . |
| 26 | This would have been more expensive than the winding-sheet but it presented the body in a more natural attitude of repose . |
| 27 | But then any clothes would have been more suitable than the skimpy loincloth that he sports on stage every night in the long-running London musical Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've never been more depressed than the time I was sent off against Hibs . |
| 29 | The opposition to business monopolies has always been more muted than the opposition to labour monopolies , which businessmen and women have vociferously denounced as the root of all evil . |
| 30 | A church setting would undoubtedly have been more atmospheric than the shocking pink of the BBC Concert Hall , but then listeners to the broadcast will only need to worry about aural aesthetics . |