Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] have been [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their effects can not be isolated from the HLCA system ; in essence it has been the availability of substantial levels of grant plus the guarantee of HLCAs on the increased numbers of animals which can be kept on the agriculturally improved grassland , which together have constituted a substantial incentive for such capital improvements . |
| 2 | Besides , Liza was no longer the stunningly attractive girl she had been a year ago . |
| 3 | ever since you 've been a little girl you 've been a wind-up merchant . |
| 4 | She said he was from Moila , and ever since he was a boy he 'd been a sort of con artist , and could get away with anything- ’ |
| 5 | Before the war he had been an academic . |
| 6 | Over both his superiors to some small extent he wielded a moral advantage ; on the Army List , he was Falkenhayn 's senior and had been his immediate predecessor in command of the 4th Guard Regiment ; and just before the war he had been the Crown Prince 's mentor in tactics and strategy . |
| 7 | During the course of the war it had been the privilege of Fleet Street and , to an even greater extent , the BBC to proclaim what it was that ordinary men and women felt about certain issues . |
| 8 | If it 's anything like the majority of the population it 's been a bit hairy . |
| 9 | The very next day , Sunday , I would have to attend the same chapel in its religious function , and the fact that the previous evening it had been a battleground for people who were supposed to be friends and allies , while the ‘ enemy ’ got on with his job uninterrupted outside , led to a more or less permanent confusion in my mind , which I now believe to be totally justified , between violence and religion , and between fact and fancy [ or film ] . |
| 10 | I was just thinking about what a horrendous evening it had been the night before and then he |
| 11 | The Dungarvan Leader once commended a candidate " with a record of achievement " in these revealing terms : " He has consistently fought in the Waterford County Council ( of which body he has been a member for many years ) for amenities for the town , and it was thanks to his representations that the long-suffering residents of the old road had a footpath provided in front of their homes to prevent flooding . |
| 12 | Before the colliery explosion they 'd been a fire , in a certain district , twenty yards long . |
| 13 | In the last few years there has been a strong demand from Germany as well , but on the whole it has been a home breed rather than a traveller . |
| 14 | SOUTH AFRICA 'S first non-white Test cricketer claimed last night he has been the victim of death threats in his bid to break through the barriers of apartheid . |
| 15 | WIRRAL social services , smarting from an Ombudsman 's rap , claimed last night it had been the victim of its own generous policies . |
| 16 | Alternatively , in some countries previously without a daily paper it has been the government which has started one : there would probably be no daily newspaper in the Central African Republic , Botswana , Niger , Mauritania or Chad had each of these countries ' governments not decided to finance one . |
| 17 | Almost from the start he has been a university teacher who has , so to speak , a ‘ hard hat and a pair of stout wellington boots constantly in his car ’ . |
| 18 | This season he has been a revelation . |
| 19 | Most of my adult life I 've been a salesman over in England . |
| 20 | It was the only time in my life I 've been a pain to my family . |
| 21 | All my life I have been a man who scorned distraction ! |
| 22 | All my life I have been a 7ft woman trying to get out . ’ |
| 23 | In life she had been no beauty , in death she looked ugly , her greasy locks falling in wisps to her dirty shoulders . |
| 24 | Throughout her life she had been a realist and a coper . |
| 25 | In the past they 've been the band most closely associated with the post-'88 cyberdelic culture . |
| 26 | In the past it has been the practice for research and development contracts to be on a ‘ cost plus ’ basis . |
| 27 | William Barnes , a distant Stanhope cousin , lived here for a time , but for most of its life it has been a farmhouse , which it remains . |
| 28 | For most of his life he has been a Salvation Army member and for seven years the opposition Chief Whip . |
| 29 | And and in a sense it 's been a blessing in disguise . |
| 30 | I think , I think I would , having moved the recommendation would seek to clarify what we 're asking the Government to reconsider , erm , because we 're not saying what they should come up with as a new policy , but I think we could add the words , for capital investment , at the end of the motion , recognising that at one level of government , central government it has been the practice in the past , er when they had some capital they could sell in the form of British Telecom shares and er , indeed other nationalised industries , er not to use the er the results erm , er release this realised by that capital disposal for capital investment , instead to use it for revenue purposes , which was in the long term somewhat unfortunate . |