Example sentences of "been a [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house price collapse of the last few years has been a terrible dose of cold turkey for the home owning classes , but has it been a long enough agony to drive out the idea that there 's something inherently beneficial about rising house prices . |
| 2 | Erm yes there 's been a been a long hard look at at our er vulnerability to a shortage of of electricity . |
| 3 | What has happened in the intervening period has been a progressive drawing-together of the ethical activities and interests of ourselves , ICAS and ICAI . |
| 4 | I said ( I was shocked , because from what he had said about other things , I thought he must be Labour , I knew he had been a Communist once ) , I 'd rather we had the New People than poor people . |
| 5 | That must have been a one off . |
| 6 | There has , in other words , been a quantitative rather than a qualitative change in his work . |
| 7 | Must have been a clever enough chap underneath . |
| 8 | There has been a real enough change in the form of capitalist property but the notion that the workers ‘ control ’ industry through their pension funds or life assurance contributions is manifestly absurd . |
| 9 | Her father had been a tight-lipped rather unloving man who had apparently taken little interest in Doreen . |
| 10 | The haberdashery counter could have been a useful enough base for his operations . |
| 11 | ‘ I got the hell beat out of me and I 've been a Mexican ever since . ‘ |
| 12 | THERE has been a dramatic four-fold increase in the number of patients being treated by chemotherapy at Belvoir Park Hospital , Ulster 's regional cancer unit . |
| 13 | THERE has been a dramatic four-fold increase in the number of patients being treated by chemotherapy at Belvoir Park Hospital , Ulster 's regional cancer unit . |
| 14 | ‘ It might have been a dozen so far as your conduct of the operations is concerned , ’ said one of Joyce 's companions . |
| 15 | Both sides blame one another and the result has been chaotic sales , at a time when the slack market has been a big enough handicap anyway . |
| 16 | He has been a quadriplegic ever since . |
| 17 | At this village north of St Austell is the Wheal Martyn China Clay Works , now preserved as an open-air museum of the industry that brought prosperity to this part of Cornwall from the mid-eighteenth century , when William Cookworthy , a Plymouth Quaker and apothecary , discovered kaolin , the chief ingredient of porcelain , which had been a secret closely guarded by the Chinese for over a thousand years . |
| 18 | That had been a pointed enough comment , by God ! |
| 19 | But where music has been a constant right through the ages , cinema has been a product of its time . |
| 20 | It may have been a glamorous enough life on stage and , despite the famous Tiller ethos , at the stage door , where the young lads who laid siege to the girls came to be known as Stage Door Johnnies . |
| 21 | Bram Stoker may have been a genial enough fellow externally , but he knew how to find a place which would match the chill in the soul of his novel . |