'has been jolly' is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
You can use it to describe a pleasant situation in which someone has been feeling cheerful and lighthearted. Example sentence: We spent the day at the beach and it's been jolly.
Bodyline bowling, it was seriously agreed, was not cricket.The heroic yearsLess serious people said it had been jolly exciting and welcomed home the victorious Jardine.
For decades, Olympic mascots have been jolly animals with links to their host country, like Sam the Eagle during the 1984 games in Los Angeles and Waldi the dachshund from the 1972 Munich games.
"Hasn't had to haul me in for any infractions yet," the minister said, perhaps thinking that he should have been jollier.
I doubt a Shriner could have been jollier.
Maybe they'd have been jollier if they'd lived up to their stereotype, by announcing, "If there is a ball in our goal then this should not make us worry, instead just relax, maybe have a little massage and maybe some sex and this is good and we can hope for an equaliser".
It must have been jollier back in the early 1800s when there was a brothel in the grounds, and President John Quincy Adams's wife Louisa said drily that instead of voting itself a pay rise, Congress ought to found an orphanage for their bastard progeny.
Supposedly also about Iggy Pop's girlfriend being eaten by a TV set, it has been called "incongruously jolly" and "the most oblique tribute to The Yardbirds imaginable".
Sibs has been invaluable for Anila Jolly.
UK Prime Minister (@Number10gov) Baroness Jolly has been appointed as a Whip in the @UKHouseofLords #reshuffle October 7, 2013 Judith Jolly is a Lib Dem peer.
