Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun sg] have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It reminded me how quiet my rocky tooth had been for at least a week or two now … |
| 2 | However , my personal assistant has been in touch with Carole and Ben Meadows . |
| 3 | Part of my later training had been at the hands of an ex-SAS instructor whose absolute priority for survival was evading the enemy ; and with doubt but also awareness of danger I guessed at an enemy above our heads , not a saviour . |
| 4 | My one ambition had been to be a pro , and I got to ten handicap . |
| 5 | My first appearance had been in the Junior Indoor Championships the previous year , when I had been eliminated in the heats . |
| 6 | My particular interest has been in the learning of mathematics by children of Asian backgrounds in English schools . |
| 7 | It is true to say that the cars are largely restricted to three or four models , but my own insistence had been from the outset that no obligation to use the scheme should be imposed on the disabled , nor any obligation to a particular model . |
| 8 | My last bath had been on the evening of 4th June ; it was now 17th July . |
| 9 | Five years ago people might have thought her greatest contribution had been to the British fashion industry . |
| 10 | All her brave effort had been for nothing . |
| 11 | Over the past few weeks , their National Team has been on a British Tour and wherever they play , the house is packed . |
| 12 | But perhaps the most crucial sign that headway was being made into new territory came when the West Somerset District Council , which included Hinkley Point , came out firmly against Hinkley C. Its influential policy committee chairman was married to a nuclear worker and its previous attitude had been at best neutral . |
| 13 | But he found other allies as well , everyone in fact who had been uneasy with the extent to which traditional Catholicism had been of late put into question . |
| 14 | Their formative training had been in a class of its own . |
| 15 | Although many teachers opposed the apartheid regime , their only training has been in the rigid and authoritarian methods of education used in black South African schools , with no freedom or initiative allowed to the teacher . |
| 16 | United are in the middle of the table — they need to win tomorrow but so too do Watford — their only win has been against Brentford in the coca cola cup |
| 17 | Her final rotation had been on the emergency ward , and she had seen it all . |
| 18 | Her whole concentration had been on getting to the airport as quickly as possible . |
| 19 | Having cut her teeth touring with a socialist theatre collective , her formal training has been by a battery of French mime gurus . |
| 20 | Now fantastic rumours started to circulate to the effect that the Virgin of Fatima might appear again — her last apparition had been in Portugal on 13 October 1927 . |
| 21 | Although this framework has been usefully applied to higher education ( see Wright 1988 ) , its main impact has been on studies of the school curriculum . |
| 22 | Golding 's own fictional worlds , unlike Amis 's or Murdoch 's , have tended to be enclosed , which may be natural to one whose early experience has been in naval life and schoolteaching ; and unlike theirs , powerfully concerned with the perils of code-breaking and a sense of shame . |
| 23 | They bought a flat in the capital , Nick attended art school for a while there , and Laura made a very close friend of a woman whose unusual shop had been opposite the Ashley 's first boutique on the Left Bank . |
| 24 | Gregory Pincus , the ’ father ’ of the birth control Pill ( whose previous work had been in IVF ) , decided to go into family planning after he was convinced of a ’ population explosion ’ . |
| 25 | Lewis , whose youthful enthusiasm had been for Norse sagas and the verse tales of William Morris , seems to have been converted to Christianity by considering whether the Christian myth might not , after all ‘ be something more than a fiction . |
| 26 | His elder brother had been to Yugoslavia , one of his sisters to Greece . |
| 27 | His French accent had been through the grinder in the New World , so that he sounded like a gangster in a B movie . |
| 28 | His previous experience had been as assistant boss of one of the smaller London museums . |
| 29 | Considering that Walter Luff will be forever associated with the modernisation of the Blackpool tramway in the Thirties , it was surprising that his previous appointment had been as Commercial Manager of the West Riding Tramways Company , which had just abandoned its trams . |
| 30 | The most Mr Simpson would concede — with the greatest reluctance and sounding scandalised at the impropriety of the question — was that his late client had been in receipt of a private income from a family trust . |