Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] have [been] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a moment Merrill 's grey eyes clouded ; winding up Elise 's affairs after her death had been a painful business , but there was no one else to do it . |
| 2 | Reminiscing from the autumn of his mid-twenties , he told Louise Colet that ‘ the greatest events of my life have been a few thoughts , reading , certain sunsets by the sea at Trouville , and conversations of five or six hours on the trot with a friend [ Alfred k Poittevin ] who is now married and lost to me . ’ |
| 3 | This market town and centre of its district has been a notable village of craft workers since the eighteenth century . |
| 4 | Finally , to the one person who throughout my life has been a great friend and now my husband , . |
| 5 | A feature throughout their history has been a very high level of investment in overseas securities . |
| 6 | In my experience , the marriage bed was uncomfortable , even distasteful , and invariably boring , whereas sex with my lover had been a revelation . |
| 7 | Mitch stormed , so obviously annoyed that Maggie knew without any doubt that telling him to guard Ana with his life had been a superfluous order . |
| 8 | With his baggage had been a Sony music centre . |
| 9 | The book from its invention has been a commodity , dependent on patronage or the market for its circulation , and this is a fact of history that there is little point in complaining about . |
| 10 | Noel Hayes , a stockbroker who in his time has been a building analyst and up until the beginnig of this year was head of sales at Citicorp-Scrimgeour Vickers , becomes chief executive and Sam Oxford , the former chairman of Magnet & Southerns , joins as a non-executive director . |
| 11 | Whatever else he was , he was not in love with Janice — unless that moment in his office had been a mere innocent slip . |
| 12 | It was alright to come to your marriage , having been a bit of a one for the girls , but it was n't at all good to come to your marriage having been a bit of a one with the lads . |
| 13 | The service was no novelty to him for his father had been a High Anglican vicar in another part of London and Rupert had not lost his boyhood faith until his first year at Oxford — late really , he had thought , for a clergyman 's son . |
| 14 | A solution we have adopted at my hospital has been a Diabetic Unit . |