Example sentences of "have been a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It must 've been a pretty powerful bloke who did that ; father was no weakling . ’ |
| 2 | Personally , I think she could 've been a little cleverer , lyrically . |
| 3 | And that would 've been a little unwieldy , would n't it ? |
| 4 | Shallow , samey gameplay ruins what should 've been a really rad game . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | That has been a keenly disputed question in Britain for more than a hundred years . |
| 7 | There has been a particularly sharp increase in long-distance commuting . |
| 8 | The growth of out-of-town retailing has been a particularly contentious issue in the past ten years , not only for its potentially adverse effects on urban shopping centres but also because of the resulting development pressures on fringe and green field sites . |
| 9 | There have been occasional sorties by the BNP in local by-elections , but none has been a particularly significant performance . |
| 10 | She may even find , if a relationship has been a particularly draining one , that this brings sweet relief and restores her zest for life . |
| 11 | A steadily more favourable balance on the UK 's trade in primary products has been a particularly important offset : it generated a surplus in 1983 when manufactures went into deficit . |
| 12 | ESL has been a particularly dynamic area of language teaching and one area of provision has always been for students who wish to continue their general education in this country or to take up training opportunities in MSC-funded schemes . |
| 13 | The correlation of old marine terraces and various phases in the Pleistocene has been a particularly fruitful source of disagreement among glacial geologists and geomorphologists . |
| 14 | This has been a particularly rich year for purchases of printed books of all periods . |
| 15 | The period covered by this Annual Report has been a particularly active and rewarding year in the field of education . |
| 16 | I am sure that you will want to join with me in thanking him and all the staff of the Council for their valuable work in what has been a particularly busy and challenging year . |
| 17 | No-one disputes that it has been a particularly bad winter for accidents on Scotland 's mountains . |
| 18 | It has been a particularly marked feature of industrial relations in state enterprises , since the conduct of industrial relations influences the achievement of a variety of state objectives . |
| 19 | Though several changes have been made by government , particularly in the 1980 and 1986 Acts , the debate has been a remarkably uninformed one . |
| 20 | Normalisation , on the other hand , has been a largely profession-led push towards service revisions . |
| 21 | Ever since the personnel computer first thrust itself onto our desks it has been a largely text based machine . |
| 22 | The word ‘ intellectual ’ , of course , has been a traditionally associated with the nature of men as the word ‘ emotional ’ had been associated with the nature of women . |
| 23 | As he remarks , there has been a widely held view ‘ that , in respect of early Baroque music generally … the proportional signatures … arose from within a system that had simply lapsed into ‘ chaotic confusion ’ so that they can be held to convey no precise or credible information . |
| 24 | There has been a reasonably stable relationship between equity earnings yields and real bond yields in the UK for much of the 1980's . |
| 25 | I am pleased that there has been a threefold increase in , for example , HRT prescriptions during the past 10 years . |
| 26 | It has been a rather nail-biting time in Bedford Square . |
| 27 | This has been a rather large digression from the main concerns of this chapter , but it is important to bear in mind this important change , which appears likely to occur very soon . |
| 28 | I regret to say that this has been a breathtakingly disappointing debate , even by the standards of those initiated by Labour Members , redeemed only by an excellent constructive contribution by my hon. Friend the Member for Epping Forest ( Mr. Norris ) , who made an outstanding speech . |
| 29 | A film like Mary Jane 's Mishap ( 1903 ) , in which an uncouth maid who has been a little careless with the paraffin evaporates through the chimney , but returns in ghostly form to visit her grave , derives its fantasy elements from magic lantern shows , whereas The Big Swallow ( 1901 ) , which shows camera and cameraman being swallowed up in a restless jaw , is more evidently a response to the medium 's possibilities . |
| 30 | So far as fire risks are concerned , this criticism has been a little overplayed and the Fire Research Station has stated categorically : |