Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] has [adv] [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some time before 5 p.m. her mother was alone with Miss T. What passed between them we do not know , because Miss T. has never been able to say and the mother , although a party to the proceedings , has never seen fit to give evidence . |
| 2 | Jim Payne has also been surprised by the standard of putting . |
| 3 | Sister Marcus has finally been able to persuade him to go back to his club for a short rest . ’ |
| 4 | Pam Shriver has always been one of the most colourful tennis professionals . |
| 5 | Wall Street has long been bored with the US budget deficit . |
| 6 | Mr Ashdown has always been careful to stress his belief that the revival of the party would require at least two general elections and his campaign was based on the need for long-term growth rather than on hope in the statistical quirk of a hung parliament . |
| 7 | I am glad to say that Girobank have agreed to refund the 10 because , said a spokeswoman , ‘ Mr Kimbrey has never been overdrawn before , is a good customer , and it is a very small amount . ’ |
| 8 | Out on the campaign trail the marketing of Mr Major has often been unimaginative , betraying Central Office inexperience . |
| 9 | But over the years Laura has always been one of Diana 's closest confidantes . |
| 10 | Stephen Brown has just been head-hunted from Alcan as new managing director and ‘ heir apparent ’ . |
| 11 | Det Insp Gordon Williams has recently been involved with raising money to set up a suite in Darlington where child abuse and rape victims can be interviewed in pleasant surroundings . |
| 12 | ‘ Queen Street has always been one of the main access points to the beach and it is too far to expect old people to walk around the end of the development , ’ she added . |
| 13 | Mike Harding has never been able to afford to buy one of his own clocks , now he 's making one as a retirement present to himself : a memento to a clock firm which could beat the Swiss — but could n't beat the recession . |
| 14 | Jim Wallace has also been active in trying to put together a political format with which both Labour and the Scottish Nationalist leaders can live . |
| 15 | The club Choice Brisa has always been one of our favourite hotels in Ibiza because it has everything that Club guests are looking for . |
| 16 | Fatal Attraction killer Susan Chistie has seldom been far from the headlines since being jailed for the cut-throat killing of her lover 's wife . |
| 17 | The Consorzio Venezia Nuova has already been active for some time in redesigning the network of channels in the lagoon , consolidating the barene ( patches of mud flat just above the surface of the water ) and other similar measures . |
| 18 | Cyril Hollinshead has never been renowned for his batting — but he has taken almost 700 wickets for Gloucestershire Gipsies , the club he 's played for since 1938 . |
| 19 | Politics , Religion and Love : The Story of H. H. Asquith , Venetia Stanley and Edwin Montagu by Naomi B. Levine New York University Press , £27.95 ASQUITH 's epistolary ( at least ) romance with Venetia Stanley has already been well-publicised . |
| 20 | Damon Wayans has always been sexy and funny — now with Mo' Money he 's also a massive movie icon . |