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Example sentences of "been [adv] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	And my leg 's never been properly better since .
2	Black gets it into the box Rozario got a header in but even as he headed the ball he limped away again and if he 'd have been properly fit then he would have really powered that one in .
3	‘ It does n't seem to bother you that it has n't been altogether successful so far . ’
4	The overlay process has been most reliable here .
5	In fact you 've been downright unbearable ever since we finished your articles for the journal . ’
6	‘ The omens have been rather strong today , ’ he said .
7	In order to help rationalise computer support activities , which have been rather overloaded recently , staff are asked to observe the following procedures .
8	‘ She must 've gone away , ’ said Scarlet , gratified to hear of the dead plants and Barbs 's dereliction of duty , for she had been rather hurt not to be asked to mind Eliot .
9	And now that I 'd forced myself to take it all out of its cobwebby cupboard and look at it remorselessly from start to finish , I knew I had been instinctively wise not to do it before .
10	If your father 's reputation were the beginning and the end of the matter , I might have been less intransigent all along .
11	Had he been less conscientious then he might be still alive today ’ .
12	He should have been less intimidating now he was seated , but she still felt uneasy , and she was annoyed with herself for showing any weakness , but she could n't help the quiver in her voice , the tears that pricked behind her eyes .
13	Had Jonah been less indigestible how can we be sure that the whale would have expelled him ?
14	She had never been less communicative either in speech or in manner and it was remarked on by Mrs Browning with curiosity .
15	The continuous darkness of the winter time could be made use of , but this has been less attractive both to volunteers and experimenters .
16	She had been only nineteen when the Second World War ended , and by the start of the nineties was the elder statesman in a cabinet which included several who had still been in nappies in 1945 .
17	‘ If we 'd been only 3-2 behind we 'd be favourites tonight .
18	‘ If we 'd been only 3-2 behind we 'd be favourites tonight .
19	What planetary body could have been sufficiently hot internally to generate igneous magmas so recently ?
20	She had n't been sufficiently strong mentally , he believed , to will the money away from her destroyers .
21	She would 've been all fat there once , and a baby growing inside of her .
22	Amanda had been all enthusiastic even in the rain , saying it was spray in her face and look at the gulls , which were swooping down on the shoal of crisp packets and orange peel trailing in the wake .
23	The children of many working-class parents have been upwardly mobile socially .
24	But you know I 've been terribly busy lately !
25	The weather has been terribly wet here , I do n't think it could be worse in England — but now at last the rain seems to have stopped .
26	Company liquidations have increased more sharply recently than at the same stage of the last recession , when defaults significantly lagged the deterioration in companies ' financial position , but corporate indebtedness has been much higher both at the outset of the recession and subsequently .
27	Now I 've been much happier not to have Mrs. Thatcher around .
28	But i I did feel it was airing those possible scenarios to get a reaction and I think the forty minutes we 've had discussing that have been extremely valuable as far as we 're concerned .
29	Though the hoped-for explosion of educational television has not happened the effect has not been entirely negative as far as literacy goes .
30	Mr Williams , a former Wirral councillor said : ‘ The college has been highly successful so far and we have a strong and supportive new governing body to cope with the much increased responsibilities that come with independence . ’