Example sentences of "been [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darren had been dead a couple of months ; I had fallen out with my father and I 'd been in London for most of the summer , staying with Aunt Ilsa and her long-term companion , whose only name appeared to be Mr Gibbon , which I thought made him sound like a cat for some reason … |
| 2 | He had been dead a week before they realized he was n't breathing . |
| 3 | Even just now , when for a moment she had not been able to remember what day it was , and when Faith Lavender had already been dead a week . |
| 4 | ( I 'm pretty certain I never believed that one , I mean the guy had been dead a week , for Pete 's sake . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's been rather a development , ’ said Emma . |
| 6 | Also , half a capful might have been rather a lot , weight for weight . |
| 7 | There had been rather a lot of funerals at Low Birk Hatt and they were n't inexpensive . |
| 8 | I 'm sure it must have been rather a strain to keep pretending an interest in a boring little milliner from Mannheim . ’ |
| 9 | This role may have been rather a disappointment to both sides , as General Gallagher said when he got back from Hanoi , although by opposing the clearance of wartime US mines that had been laid in Haiphong harbour , thus preventing an early return of French troopships , Gallagher seems to have come down rather heavily on the Vietminh side . |
| 10 | There had been rather a mystery as to why he should have died at that particular time . |
| 11 | Earlier in 1973 , the matches against the New Zealanders had been rather an anti-climax to their tour , with the second spoiled by rain , but no one doubted that they were now a permanent addition to the summer . |
| 12 | Furthermore , the convertibility crisis appears now to have been predominantly a problem of financial adjustment rather than one stemming from a crisis in world trade ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 13 | And that the business has been predominantly the nature of business has been predominantly manufacturing . |
| 14 | For centuries the practice of philosophy has been overwhelmingly the prerogative of men but it is only recently that feminist analysis has made it possible to see the distorting effect of this historical fact . |
| 15 | There has been effectively no involvement on the part of UK funds in index arbitrage . |
| 16 | George did n't bother to explain the process by which he had deflected the first demand — that Maxim go round to Century House by himself — by a counter-offer of Number 10 ( ‘ As it 's a Saturday , we could use the Cabinet Room ; think how that would look in your memoirs ’ ) — or one of his clubs , naming the one that had been effectively the HQ of the Intelligence Service in the heady days of World War II , and finally agreeing on this no-man's-land . |
| 17 | There is undeniably some truth in that but , when you look in any detail at Montgomerie 's so-called failures since he won the Scandinavian Masters in 1991 , it has more often than not been less a question of his losing the tournament than of someone else winning it . |
| 18 | For the elderly , the history of welfare provision seems to have been less a story of steady progress over the centuries than an oscillation between phases of relative generosity and meanness . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Even now , after this short while , she found it hard to remember if Johnny had truly been with her or if it had been only a dream . |
| 21 | She thought that perhaps her manner was somewhat too bold for one who so recently had been only a governess , and now wanted to be even less . |
| 22 | The upheavals in Africa had been only a rehearsal . |
| 23 | She did n't know the promised ‘ exhibition ’ had been only a trick to get her niece to come to Venice , or that Michele Diomede was also Peter Sebastian , and she did n't known about Didi Lombard . |
| 24 | Bradford was ‘ not troubled with them ’ [ fascists ] , ‘ The Movement does not receive much support ’ in Dewsbury , and there appear to have been only a couple of modest meetings in Huddersfield . |
| 25 | She 'd given him no encouragement — their encounters had been on a light , friendly basis only — but she knew that he 'd long since stopped seeing Louise , and there 'd been only a couple of short-term girlfriends since . |
| 26 | But I watched her transform the house from being their place — and it had been only a place , child-soiled , functional — into her home . |
| 27 | From there it had been only a matter of time until he was given his own prison . |
| 28 | At that time she had known few people in the district , for they were among the first of the incomers , and Camille had been only a baby with the consequent ailments , accidents and dissatisfactions . |
| 29 | The hulking nephew of Kalv Arnason had been only a youth when King Olaf had killed his uncle Ølve at the spring feast at Sparbu and had given to Kalv his uncle 's rich widow in gratitude . |
| 30 | Elena received a fee for permission to purchase what was by Romanian standards a luxurious limousine , even if in the West the car might have been only a family saloon . |