Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] have [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Local people say there 's been a long-standing campaign for the site to be made safe . |
| 3 | COMMUNITY workers say there has been a big increase in the number of young homeless people as winter sets in . |
| 4 | Very significantly , in comparing his study with another carried out 19 years before , Gorer found there had been a marked increase in this expressed appreciation of the sexual factor in marriage — even more marked in women than in men . |
| 5 | Strong hints about his IRA sympathies , as if everyone did n't know he 'd been a self-proclaimed Sinn Feinner since he was a youngster . |
| 6 | A former Birmingham police officer , Finnegan was set to stand as Tory candidate for Stockton South at the 1983 general election but withdrew when it was disclosed he had been a National Front organiser . |
| 7 | Then he said slowly : ‘ I hope I 've been a good father to you . ’ |
| 8 | I hope I 've been a good father to you . |
| 9 | He was no longer particularly interested in the work of younger writers ; this was partly because he no longer felt confident in his judgments about contemporary writing but , at a more general level , he believed there had been a profound falling off in the standard of both literature and criticism since the Second World War . |
| 10 | His widow Diane says there 's been a terrible injustice . |
| 11 | He says there has been a great deal of interest shown in the firm because virtual reality is seen as an exciting new technology with a lot of potential . |
| 12 | Even in 1964 we commented , ‘ For as long as many of us care to remember there has been a big Healey in the price lists . |
| 13 | National statistics show there has been a general decline in Britain 's urban population . |
| 14 | Dixie says it has been a busy day . |
| 15 | He says it 's been a sad day , but its also a homecoming . |
| 16 | Edward Gillespie , Race Couse Manager , says it 's been a fantastic day . |
| 17 | She says it 's been a lifelong ambition to work with horses . |
| 18 | The Government says it 's been a great success — those living close to its route say its ruined their lives . |
| 19 | Meg realized she 'd been a complete fool . |
| 20 | I can see I have been a great burden to you . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The present occupants did not realize there had been a famous ex-occupant and were , says Herman , ‘ not too pleased when they found out ’ . |
| 23 | Yeah , whe whe whether or not we consider him to have been a black sheep , then we certainly have erm , rather gone into his character . |
| 24 | On the Monday , the bulldozer moved in and turned what had been a rough path into a track about 8 feet wide . |
| 25 | From 1971 to 1977 he was the head coach of the Washington Redskins professional football team , and turned what had been a lacklustre bunch into a city 's obsession . |
| 26 | The events between the formation of the first National Government and the general election , however , turned what had been an incipient three-party system into an unbalanced two-party system in which the Conservatives , reinforced by defectors from the Liberal and Labour parties , the Liberal Nationals , and National Labour party , were the obvious beneficiaries . |
| 27 | ‘ I had never been interviewed before but felt really at ease , mainly because I discovered I had been an informal link worker all my life ! |
| 28 | I know I 've been a long time on this but I 'll I think it 's nearly there . |
| 29 | Lawrence added : ‘ I know it has been an expensive season for fans , but I hope they will dig deep to back the team in their final home game . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I know it 's been a long day but I want you to drive to Sion tonight . |