Example sentences of "[been] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think this had been the former jockey 's house , for the Kirkwoods of Woodbrook survived into the middle of the twentieth century by breeding racehorses . |
| 2 | Dornford Lane is much more likely to have been the former main road into Woodstock from Banbury which developed after 1154–74 , when Woodstock was founded as a royal town by Henry II . |
| 3 | In the case of Byrd it has almost always been the latter ; and this is one reason why the performance practice of Byrd 's music is sorely in need of revolution . |
| 4 | Baltic nationalism , which had been the least of the Tsar 's political worries and barely existed in 1917 , was nurtured by setting up independent little states as part of the quarantine belt against the Bolshevist infection . |
| 5 | If there 'd been the least sign of magical activity we 'd know about it . ’ |
| 6 | When she 'd first moved in she had n't cared about anything , certainly not her surroundings — they had been the least of her problems — and if the villagers had n't so kindly donated her furnishings she 'd probably still be existing in empty rooms . |
| 7 | It may also not have been the least of Ælfheah 's attractions to the people of London , heavily taxed in 1018 , that he was murdered for being unable or unwilling to give money to the Danes ; nor need it have made Cnut 's position any easier that King Æthelred , too , lay buried in St Paul 's . |
| 8 | A major feature in UK user education ( particularly in the last five years ) has been the many hundreds of thousands of pounds spent on research and development . |
| 9 | Since the disease is heterosexually transmitted in Africa , the group which has come in for the most blame for its rapid spread have been the many poor women who have been supporting themselves in Nairobi through commercial sex . |
| 10 | I have seen before and after your boasted strokes of policy ; and you were the same man , and would have been the same man to me and to yourself if you had never done them . |
| 11 | My feet have never been the same since , he said . |
| 12 | Life would not have been the same without them , nor would it be now , considering the lasting impression they made in our minds . |
| 13 | I wonder whether the umpire 's attitude would have been the same if the offender had been his opponent , the comparatively unknown Grant Connell . |
| 14 | There was nothing to suggest that had the evidence been excluded that result would necessarily have been the same . |
| 15 | The result has been the same each time . |
| 16 | Its always been the same ’ ( FN 30/11/87 , p. 16 ) . |
| 17 | There are many projects where farmers have seen potential benefits from a project , but where these have not been the same as those anticipated by the project designers . |
| 18 | Spurs have never been the same in cup competition since Port Vale knocked them out of the FA Cup . |
| 19 | Rovers have never been the same since they knocked Newcastle and Wimbledon out of the Centenary Trophy . |
| 20 | If the English handicapper appears to have been lenient with Barnbrook Again , the Irish handicapper has been the same with Morley Street . |
| 21 | They must have been the same year , for their birthdays were only two months apart . |
| 22 | Ann , in 1913 , would have been the same age as Edward 's mother and , from family hearsay , Ann 's sentiments resemble closely the practical , optimistic piety of Mary Elizabeth Thomas . |
| 23 | It had been the same sum for years . |
| 24 | Perhaps the end would have been the same in any case . |
| 25 | He 's been a wonderful husband in every way … it 's been the same all … our married life . ’ |
| 26 | The overwhelming reason had always been the same one . |
| 27 | The sum has been the same since 1983 , when the Government launched its Enterprise Allowance Scheme — better known in some circles as the Enterprise Allowance Scam or Enquiring Artists ' Support . |
| 28 | And our Emily 's never been the same from that day to this … |
| 29 | Todger had never been the same since they got to Hambury . |
| 30 | Golf would never been the same again after September 3rd , and many familiar faces were destined not to return . |