Example sentences of "have be a very " in BNC.

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1 And if I had n't met the people I 've met , I think I 'd 've been a very frustrated person cos erm , even though you can think of something , un unless , if you have other people you can go , if you say to somebody you could say , oh God , you know let's do this and this and this , or I think , really think this or this and someone else goes yes I do
2 Kelly , who has won this race three times , said : ‘ It has been a very long and hard season for me , and I feel very tired .
3 He denied angrily that he had ever sought compensation of up to £1m ‘ although this has been a very expensive operation ’ , adding : ‘ I could have proceeded had I been totally selfish for there were several options on the table , financially very attractive . ’
4 THIS HAS been a very good week for fishermen and a very bad week for Findus , Bird 's Eye and all the other producers of frozen peas and pizzas .
5 Judith Longman at SPCK has been a very supportive and sensitive editor .
6 At the time , he said : ‘ It has been a very difficult split .
7 ‘ I am very sorry , ’ he said , ‘ but you must understand it has been a very long time …
8 Since then there has been a very slight reversal of this trend , but the proportions are projected to fall again by 2001 ( Social Trends 21 , 1991 ) .
9 The glycosylated haemoglobin has been a very useful advance for the Type 2 patients with latently poor control .
10 Also , the rain water has been a very weak acid because it links with carbon dioxide in the air .
11 The outcome has been a very stable and valuable team .
12 At Pagham Harbour there has been a very sharp increase from one to three pairs up to 1974 to 12 in 1976 .
13 He has been most supportive and indeed we have the Canon to thank that our Centenary Celebrations have taken the form they have , and I think you will agree it has been a very fitting culmination to our 100 years history .
14 Buddy Holly has been a very big influence to me ever since I was a kid and over the years I have read articles and watched documentaries about his life .
15 ‘ It has been a very tough night , but we have come out carrying our arms . ’
16 ‘ It has been a very rough time indeed .
17 But he added : ‘ However , there has been a heavy price to pay and the continual publicity has been particularly hard on my wife Pam , whose fierce and unswerving support has been a very significant factor in the outcome .
18 Wigan chairman Jack Robinson said : ‘ Andy Goodway has been a very good servant of the club .
19 The mountain rescue organisation is getting bigger and it needs to be sustained — there has been a very dramatic escalation in the number of incidents on the hill in the last ten years .
20 Since then , it has been a very regular performer on the BR main line hauling charter trains in many parts of the country , including meeting its sister engine , 6201 ‘ Princess Elizabeth ’ .
21 So far there has been a very good response to the society , membership is climbing steadily , and many offers of help are being received .
22 He also presented himself to the Rehabilitation Officer and has been a very great nuisance to him …
23 Following what Gilkes admits has been a very poor year in the VME marketplace , that part of its enterprise will contribute a declining proportion of the company 's revenue as sales of the Sparcbook rise .
24 ‘ We always had books and diagrams on meteorology but it has been a very dead subject up until now , ’ said head of science Peter Simpson .
25 Sir William has been a very fine example of the best of Australia .
26 Indeed , at this intraregional level , too , there has been a very definite geography of deindustrialization .
27 Goldthorpe shows that , contrary to the ‘ closure ’ and ‘ buffer zone ’ theses , there has been a very substantial recruitment of males from manual working class family backgrounds into even the ‘ highest ’ strata of salaried employment .
28 In spite of the fact that there has been a very long tradition of work on rural land use , including the invaluable land use survey of the 1930s ( Stamp , 1962 ) , and its revival in the second survey of the 1960s and 1970s * ( Coleman et al , 1974 ) and much other detailed work from other sources ( Hart , 1980 ; Coppock , 1960a ; Best , 1981 ) as shown in Table 8. 1 , there is still a desperate need ( Hall , 1 974 , 414 ) for a ‘ national Domesday book for land use , preferably updated every 10 years at the time of the population census ’ .
29 It has been a very successful project indeed .
30 So far the response of the private sector has been a very cautious one .
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