Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] have [adv] been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a point on the coast called Sand-le-Mere is a small area of dune which has always been a danger point from incursion from the sea . |
| 2 | As a result there has always been a clan spirit which has kept the 600,000 first and second generation pied noirs together . |
| 3 | In essence there has never been a distinction between the respective responsibilities of executive and non-executive directors . |
| 4 | She wondered if during that last frenetic occasion when she had seen Sylvie there had already been a premonition of the end . |
| 5 | In the last two centuries it has also been a source of scholarly controversy amongst historians , theologians and philosophers . |
| 6 | Phylloxera is generally considered to be the greatest disaster in French viticultural history , but in some respects it has also been a blessing . |
| 7 | Stopping outside , he checked his watch , and was rewarded with a sudden sharp blast from upslope , followed by a rain of small pieces of wood and clay brick which had once been a part of the Bagi . |
| 8 | Scudder 's Cottage , small-windowed , picturesque under its tiled , dipping roof , was fronted by a flowering wilderness which had once been a garden . |
| 9 | She is one of only 20 women Circuit Judges out of over 500 and one of very few Circuit Judges who has never been a barrister . |
| 10 | Again the Chancellor comes to be usually a lawyer : Lord Shaftesbury under Charles II was the last Chancellor who had never been a practising lawyer . |
| 11 | The present managers of both cooperatives are from out with the Western Isles , although in Ness there had previously been a local man . |
| 12 | In a similar vein there has recently been a whole range of studies of pre-industrial states by anthropologists , largely in terns of class analysis . |
| 13 | Across the whole of the NHS there has barely been a scratching of the surface . |
| 14 | During the past two decades there have also been a number of disorderly sequels to championship victories . |
| 15 | We were the first union in nineteen seventy six to come out with our policy on the then Race Relations Act it 's always been a trade union issue whether it was the trade unions in Germany in the twenties and thirties fighting Hitlerism and Nazi-ism or whether it was the trade unions fighting Moseley and his black shirts in Britain it has always been part of our ideals and principles . |
| 16 | Just sort of er telling Frank he has n't been a very good friend and things . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's a pity it 's just been a year . |
| 18 | You have tried to pass a Software Performance Report ( SPR ) to a user who has already been a holder of it . |
| 19 | He was a Vietnam veteran from Rhode Island who had also been a drug enforcement agent in Pennsylvania and a cosmetologist in Palm Beach , and he was in Nicaragua to take combat photos . |
| 20 | We set off in an open 15-cwt. truck with an Italian driver who had also been a soldier , two Schmeisser machine pistols and a lot of ammunition ; the mountains at that time were infested with bandits , some of whom were Allied and Axis deserters . |
| 21 | She 's a singer who has apparently been a star back home in Zimbabwe for some time , but there is little that 's African about her delightful state-of-the-art LP of uplifting piano-driven pop-house . |
| 22 | In the last ten years she had also been a magistrate , and had become chairman of the Committee of Magistrates . |
| 23 | Over the same period there has also been a transformation in its geography . |
| 24 | In the summer of our second year in Rye my four grandchildren came to stay — Mark , Elizabeth , Emma , Charlotte — and I realised that for more than a hundred years there had not been a child at Lamb House . |
| 25 | In fact over the years there 's always been a significant amount of lesbian/gay film making in the general programme . |
| 26 | We want to swap our nice , two-bedroom bungalow near the Essex coast for somewhere nearer Herts or Sussex yet in three years there has n't been a decent inquiry . |
| 27 | ‘ Over the past hundred years there has never been a real commitment to the formation of a contemporary art collection and the cost of establishing one has not been given much thought ’ , says Corral . |
| 28 | The identification of particular EEG/EOG signs with a sleep state in which people are likely to be dreaming made it feasible to answer a number of questions which had previously been a matter for speculation , and which are perennially asked by ordinary people . |
| 29 | He would fly that night to Damascus with his wife who had once been a dancer and with his children whom he loved . |
| 30 | Nonni was the daughter of a prosperous dealer in scrap metal who had also been a lay preacher . |