Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [been] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the real discovery for me has been the final item on Disc 1 , the Messe des Pauvres , composed , incredibly , in 1895 . |
| 2 | The interesting feature for me has been the wider range of climbers active on the hard classics . |
| 3 | ‘ And should n't I have been the first person to have known about them ? |
| 4 | I had been the first Chairman of Wells-Next-The-Sea , Town Council , but two or three years afterwards , we decided to turn , er , the old cinema , they wanted to turn the old cinema into a Dance Hall . |
| 5 | I began there as someone who was already a professor , I had been the first woman Pro-Vice-Chancellor in the country . |
| 6 | er , I must , I always claim the attendance allowance when it has been as executive , as I 've been the one member from Wiltshire attending . |
| 7 | In the 14 years since 1978 , during which I have been the only consultant physician in respiratory medicine in West Cumbria , there should , according to the above statistics , have been at least 70 deaths from asthma and yet I know of very few , having personal knowledge of only three . |
| 8 | ‘ Cara , this time I have been the one wrestling with the problem of trust . |
| 9 | I have been the weaker vessel . |
| 10 | Mistake , which has been the central football in this tournament , may however be analysed in a way which is neither exclusively subjectivist nor exclusively objectivist by adopting the synthesist approach immanent in Gordon 's ‘ reasonable man as a test ’ . |
| 11 | This change has , however , been accompanied by a rise in home ownership and an explosion in house prices , which has been the second force at work affecting the distribution of wealth . |
| 12 | It is important to appreciate that the Matrimonial Homes Act 1983 only applies to a dwelling house which has been the matrimonial home ( s1(10) ) . |
| 13 | But it is the police crackdown which has been the crucial factor . |
| 14 | It is their opposition to private placement bureau , which they see as undermining the public employment service , which has been the main explanation for trade union hostility to agency working and , until recently , for their reluctance to recruit or organise agency workers ( on this last see Towers/Harrison 1981 ) . |
| 15 | But this is itself dependent upon a number of rather more enduring features , perhaps the most important of which has been the continual growth in demand for overseas holidays despite the deep recession in the economy . |
| 16 | Arms control and related issues were high on the agenda and significant agreement was reached on the status of air-launched and sea-launched cruise missiles , which had been the major stumbling blocks in the way of a new strategic arms limitation treaty ( START ) . |
| 17 | The results were interpreted as giving a continued endorsement to the efforts of the non-party President Georgios Vassiliou to pursue UN-backed talks with the Turkish Cypriots — something which had been the key issue of the electoral campaigns . |
| 18 | but many of those who were ready to benefit from it could not read Latin , which had been the normal basis for scholarly interchange . |
| 19 | The years 1990 and 1991 had emerged as the warmest ever recorded , outstripping the 1980s , which had been the warmest decade to date . |
| 20 | Man-made fibres and plastic sheeting have long since replaced the porous cambric or fine cotton linen which had been the standard material for sails over seven decades . |
| 21 | The conference ( a triennial meeting scheduled between NAM summits ) took place in the context of the effective ending of the " Cold War " , the issue which had been the immediate stimulus for the original formation of the Non-aligned Movement in 1961 . |
| 22 | The dismantling of the Communist system , which had been the immediate priority of the new government elected in June 1990 [ see pp. 37542-43 ] , was followed by the framing of a new constitution regulating the relationship between the federal government and the two constituent republics . |
| 23 | Kermode sees this change — which is at the heart of what I am writing about — as having radical implications for letters , comparable to such things as the advent , first of printing and then of cheap paper ; the bourgeoisie 's greater leisure for private reading ; and the abandonment by circulating libraries of the three-volume novel , which had been the favoured vehicle for fiction during much of the nineteenth century : Kermode exaggerates a little , I think ; nothing in the establishment of university English is as important as the innovations in culture and technology which established the book in its modern form . |
| 24 | Later , as they strolled on neat walkways and over pretty Oriental stone bridges , Luke 's mood grew more relaxed , so Maria reintroduced the subject which had been the initial cause of their earlier conflict . |
| 25 | Manufacturing , which had been the leading sector in 1989 , was expected to be less significant in 1990 , with a world fall in demand for computer hardware . |
| 26 | The area to the south of Saville Street which had been the commercial centre for the port was already in a state of decay with banks , etc. moving north towards residential areas . |
| 27 | Indeed , it is the implications of the changing age structure of the population of pensionable age and the likelihood of a continuation of that trend into at least the first decade of the twenty-first century which have been the chief concern of social planners and welfare economists , rather than the proportion of the total population entitled to draw retirement pensions . |
| 28 | Techniques for decreasing the opportunities for crime include such things as the better protection of property , which have been the usual focus of police crime-prevention programmes . |
| 29 | I believe that Frank is too autocratic , too opinionated — especially about relay selections , which have been the main bone of contention between us down the years . |
| 30 | He had wanted children for years : not having them had been the one drawback to marrying late . |