Example sentences of "been [adv] a [noun] " 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 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The upheavals in Africa had been only a rehearsal . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But I watched her transform the house from being their place — and it had been only a place , child-soiled , functional — into her home . |
| 22 | From there it had been only a matter of time until he was given his own prison . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ Up to now , Brown , you have been only a cypher . |
| 27 | But Ben was staring down at where his left hand had been only a moment before , sounding the chord . |
| 28 | It had vanished as silently as if it had been only a figment of her imagination . |
| 29 | ‘ There 's a man here , ’ Ma said with an air of wonder , ‘ been down a pothole for one hundred and thirteen days . |
| 30 | Although I 've not been down a mine since then , er the German mines to my er estimation were far more advanced than what the British mines were . |