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 | My particular interest has been in the learning of mathematics by children of Asian backgrounds in English schools . |
| 4 | All her brave effort had been for nothing . |
| 5 | Over the past few weeks , their National Team has been on a British Tour and wherever they play , the house is packed . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Their formative training had been in a class of its own . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | Her final rotation had been on the emergency ward , and she had seen it all . |
| 12 | Her whole concentration had been on getting to the airport as quickly as possible . |
| 13 | Having cut her teeth touring with a socialist theatre collective , her formal training has been by a battery of French mime gurus . |
| 14 | Although this framework has been usefully applied to higher education ( see Wright 1988 ) , its main impact has been on studies of the school curriculum . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | His French accent had been through the grinder in the New World , so that he sounded like a gangster in a B movie . |
| 20 | His previous experience had been as assistant boss of one of the smaller London museums . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | His over-riding concern has been for those who are lost ; he has been an evangelist , a travelling missionary , taking the gospel to places where no Christian had ever gone before . |
| 24 | Albert and his young assistant had been at loggerheads for years now . |
| 25 | Until April 1992 all his flying experience had been on conventional three-axis control aircraft . |
| 26 | As predicted , his offbreaks have proved as persuasive in the shorter game as his sublime strokeplay has been in the longer one . |
| 27 | Our Regional Association has been through difficult times , mainly due to isolation and communication problems . |
| 28 | The final indignities suffered by our old church has been in the last few years . |
| 29 | So our National Anthem has been about a bit , particularly when you think that it came , probably came from , or was used in , erm a piece of music simply by Haydn . |
| 30 | One new development in our educational work has been with schools and community organisations . |