Example sentences of "have [be] [adv] a " in BNC.
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1 | Police think it could 've been just a dirty night out . |
2 | Er you saw the er saw him five years ago in the navy , now it could 've been just a regular check which every seaman gets or it could be , it could 've been something of a serious nature . |
3 | The big push would be diplomatic propaganda screwing the pound sterling on the money markets … mugging the Mother of Parliaments would 've been quite a job . ’ |
4 | ‘ That would 've been quite a drive for you all the way to London . |
5 | Our fund-raising has been just a little slower during the current year after the bumper total achieved in 1985 , but nevertheless it has been most gratifying that we continue to receive contributions from so many classes over a very wide area . |
6 | Similarly , the evidence of the London Clearing Banks to the same committee stated : ‘ There is certainly no evidence to suggest that the availability of bank finance has been even a remotely significant factor holding investment back . ’ |
7 | ‘ She has been here a long time and will be here for even longer , ’ Felipe answered smoothly . |
8 | This siter has been here a long time and is part of the area . |
9 | Traditionally , he has been rather a mysterious figure with most of the audience seeing only his back . |
10 | The upshot of the erm the year of course has been rather a healthy lot of financial ratios . |
11 | Thatcherism has been both a matter of style — combining impatience with much of the status quo and a relentless promotion of new attitudes — and policies . |
12 | Firstly , I hope to clarify what spiritual direction is — and what it is not — for it represents a tremendously rich tradition in the church 's history which , by its very nature , has been both a hidden and profound influence in the lives of many . |
13 | Arlington Mill , in this picturesque Cotswold village astride the River Coln , has been both a corn and fulling mill in its time . |
14 | Decentralisation has been both a means of controlling public sector growth and a way to make public services more politically attractive , responsive and effective . |
15 | The ‘ displacement ’ has been both a demographic and a cognitive recentring , a ‘ displacement from cause to effect ’ ( 117/119,118/120,172/174 ) . |
16 | Previously the finance function within the FPCs has been largely a ‘ pay and rations ’ operation of paying to the doctors , dentists , pharmacists and opticians the allowances to which they are entitled in the ‘ Red Book ’ ( DHSS , 1989 ) . |
17 | For him this convenience has been largely a negative factor for he thought of America as offering no other comparable diversion ; there were ‘ no beer gardens — no public concerts ’ and the question he asked was ‘ Who wants to sit at home and play bridge every night ? ’ |
18 | In most other matters , since 1945 , Britain has been effectively a dependent state , whether in peace or in war , and the dominance of British fiction across the world is unmatched by almost everything else , though some might hopefully seek exceptions in education , broadcasting and financial services like marine insurance . |
19 | Because the common holly , Ilex aquifolium , has been around a long time and produced many ornamental varieties , you will find quite a few with fancy botanical names . |
20 | But as I 've already mentioned distributed database theory has been around a long time . |
21 | The shift of Amis 's mind , thoughtful and unphilosophical as it is , has been broadly a pattern to others of his age . |
22 | This has been partially a result of literate Europe 's historical-mindedness ; one of its first manifestations was the rapid appearance of a number of new historical journals at the end of the nineteenth century . |
23 | After an early phase of rapid growth initiated by enterprising , indigenous farmers and leading to an increasingly capitalist social structure , by 1939 the Ghanaian cocoa industry had entered what has been generally a long decline accompanied by reduced employment of wage-labour . |
24 | As far as I am concerned , Bergman has been officially a man since the end of the Upper Removes . |
25 | Wales was once known as a fly-half factory , but since Jonathan Davies went North there has been not a single successor of world class selected for the national team and at the moment the signs are not good that one is about to come off the production like . |
26 | A demand for dolphin meat for human consumption has been only a recent trend , but high transport costs from the remote Iki Island made the export of edible dolphin meat uneconomic . |
27 | In the past , and sometimes even in the present , bad environmental management of rivers has been only a part and a symptom of bad man-management . |
28 | These lowland soils are called Brown Earths because there has been only a small amount of leaching which leaves the humus and chemicals fairly evenly spread between the A and B horizons of the soil . |
29 | It was in fact anticipated that the establishment of the Library Instruction Materials Bank ( LIMB ) in 1977 would remove some of the duplication in production , but there has been only a small measure of success here . |
30 | In Britain , however , there has been only a modest and localised recent recovery by the extreme right . |