Example sentences of "[been] [pron] [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Jason has been my boss for the last year , and as far as I was concerned a reasonably good one . |
| 2 | The Crown 's servants in the sixteenth century were in many ways less effective as administrative instruments than had been their predecessors in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries . |
| 3 | Another successful project had been their support of the National Woodland Trust Appeal , which had raised over £400 . |
| 4 | The suggestion of hiring a car had almost come from these two ; it had been their talk of the small towns , the cedar woods , the mountains , which had fascinated Dan so much . |
| 5 | A tall ship which starred in the TV series the Onedin Line , has bid farewell to the docks which have been her home for the past ten years . |
| 6 | Nanny stood on the bridge that spanned the ornamental lake and looked back at the beautiful house that had been her home for the last thirty years . |
| 7 | Three months pregnant , yesterday Shelley Williams lost her baby , today she returned from hospital what 's been her home for the last two months , a tent pitched on a grass verge outside the home of her boyfriend 's parents . |
| 8 | Having successfully struck out on his own in 1962 , he has since been involved with the South East London Society , and has been its treasurer for the past two years . |
| 9 | The Party for National Independence , Istiklal , held its constituent congress on July 3-4 and elected as its chair Etibar Mamedov , who had been its candidate in the presidential elections . |
| 10 | The craft has been his hobby for the past years , and in that time he has seen it grow immensely in popularity . |
| 11 | He dragged himself from the clump of twitch-grass that had been his hiding-place for the last half hour , and shivering violently , set off on foot to the east . |
| 12 | The other major contribution to missiological thinking by McGavran has been his stress on the corporate dimension of the decision-making process . |
| 13 | In his own funny way he would miss Joe who had been his passport into the real world . |
| 14 | One of his reasons for leaving the Navy had been his dislike of the social relations between officers and ratings — take three paces backwards and shout at them . |
| 15 | The operative straw seems to have been his exclusion from the inner circle during the twenty-four hours of the joint Anglo-French ultimatum , though back in August Clark had recorded quite dispassionately that ‘ a good deal of effort is going into trying to find a proper pretext for taking military action . |
| 16 | Some of the rapids were as difficult as those that had been our undoing on the first day , but tackled with a bit of newly learned skill they were challenging and exhilarating rather than terrifying . |
| 17 | It has been our policy for the past 12 years to limit investigation of such patients to upper gastrointestinal endoscopy , with endoscopic small bowel biopsy , and barium enema . |