Example sentences of "[adv prt] [verb] been a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The apartment she had been in had been a single room — like his own , spartanly furnished — and she had had to share washing and night-soil facilities . |
| 2 | The effortful shepherding of one 's confusion and faint nausea , which I assumed was the basic existential package , turns out to have been a temporary condition . |
| 3 | The tiny lady in purple looking after the money , 78 years old and no bigger than twopennorth of copper , was Jess Wilson who turned out to have been a British clay pigeon champion many years ago . |
| 4 | This turned out to have been a wise decision . |
| 5 | A merger often turns out to have been a bad move for one of the firms involved . |
| 6 | The weavers ' yard close by has been a fine example of the early wool trade , with the workers ' cottages down one side and the spinning and weaving loft up a wooden stair on the other . |