Example sentences of "have [been] a [adj] bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | There must 've been a little bit of snow |
| 2 | Spokesman Peter Kessler said : ‘ Negotiations are progressing pretty well , but there has been a little bit of foot-dragging on the Serbian side . ’ |
| 3 | It was erm it 's the first time that I 'd come across , I mean I 'd been a little bit of experience on , on inland waterways in Windsor er which I 'd lost when I went to Leicester and Lincoln I came back here of course and now we had the North Sea and the docks and erm that was a new area and a , and a really good challenge erm I particularly got involved with , with things like erm the movement of chemicals which was beginning to increase and coming into Felixstowe and , and er and , and er Ipswich erm and when I think back Felixstowe Dock , looking back , ended where the big jumbo tank , the Calor Gas tank is , that , that was the sort of range of Felixstowe Dock in those days . |
| 4 | ‘ And marriage itself might have been a useful bit of insurance for Gustav : her relatives or guardians would have been less likely to inform on her husband than on some passing stranger who could get his trousers open in Olympic time . ’ |
| 5 | He must have been a good bit older than her . |
| 6 | Well that must have been a big bit surely . |
| 7 | FOR BEA AND EUGENIE IT MUST HAVE BEEN A LITTLE BIT BEWILDERING … |
| 8 | It was a sort of a , as you grew older mind you , it was i i i it could have been a little bit of a miserable sort of day . |
| 9 | But he added : ‘ I think it might have been a little bit too early . |
| 10 | ‘ But somehow she got through and Tony may have been a little bit tired . ’ |
| 11 | With regard to point ( c ) , I had been a teensy bit lazy in the last few maths lessons , not having worked on the set tasks with much enthusiasm at all . |
| 12 | Looking back , he thought he had been a little bit crazy , last night . |
| 13 | Rumours had it also that there had been a little bit of nasty business first . |
| 14 | ‘ If only there had been a little bit more flexibility on the United States side I think it could have been successfully accomplished . ’ |
| 15 | erm I 've been a little bit appalled by the levity with which some of our extreme , extremist politicians recently have spoken about abrogating this or that international obligation entered by the country if a general election returns them to power , as if a , a self-respecting state can do that in a state system . |
| 16 | There may have been one or two planning applications which have been a little bit difficult to deal with but that 's life surely . |
| 17 | You can see there 's been a wee bit of damage to that ligament just where it goes down over the top of that bone . |
| 18 | League secretary Mike Foster said : ‘ There 's been a little bit of manoeuvring — but there has never been any doubt that it was going to be signed . ’ |
| 19 | She has a dental appointment this afternoon and she 's been a little bit nervous about it . |
| 20 | There 's been a little bit of shall we say erm not as good co-operation as there might have been , especially between and recently . |
| 21 | Just a case of reminding there were some problems it 's been a little bit slow because of roadworks on the high street in Banbury as usual because of that water board work that 's continuing . |
| 22 | Since you signed it 's been a little bit up and down , some goals conceded , not necessarily down to you , so you must be pleased that things have settled down a bit ? |