Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] have been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Neither husband nor daughter had been any help . |
2 | Churchill , Eden , Macmillan , and Home had been political grandees ; all emerged through the ‘ magic circle , and not as a result of election by MPs . |
3 | Like the other playwrights whose response to Thatcherism and brutality has been some hand-wringing of their own , Barker is too infatuated by his heroine 's strength to humanise her withe vulnerability and too in awe of her for a passionate or coolly detached opposition . |
4 | The worlds of industry and commerce , accountancy and finance , advertising and government have been major recruiters of graduates from the department for many years . |
5 | The two related factors that have worked against an integration of education and training have been traditional recruitment into the professions via Oxbridge , and the view that the summum bonum of English education is A levels . |
6 | She should have known she was ill , got a doctor to see her earlier , not waited until the bronchitis had turned to pneumonia , so that none of their injections and treatment had been any good . |
7 | Injuries and fitness have been topical issues for some time now . |
8 | The turning point for me came after scum had been one fo the chosen matches for about 8 weeks in succession , then one evening it seemed they were nt . |
9 | What was perhaps most crucial to the success of Impressionism in financial terms was its modern stance , as closely identified with contemporary life at the turn of the century as Romanticism had been fifty years before . |
10 | The division of the movement suggested this and the spectre of a resurgent Germany under Hitler 's leadership made Fascism as alien as Bolshevism had been ten years before . |