Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Funding for research of this kind has been on a scale not approached by any other area of sociological enquiry . |
| 2 | Since then the pickup has been in a police pound near Cheltenham . |
| 3 | Stephen Dent has been in a wheel chair since an accident seven years ago , which left him paralysed from the waist down . |
| 4 | Another means of keeping contemporary teachers better informed and less parochial in outlook has been through a range of central and local government books and reports . |
| 5 | The girl has been in a council children 's home and with foster parents since being made a ward of court . |
| 6 | In another study , this time of one village Ringmer in Sussex , which had doubled in size from around 2,000 inhabitants in 1961 to 4,000 in 1971 , Ambrose ( 1974 ) found that the main reason for migration to the village had been for a job , or to be within commuting range of a job , thus confirming that the main reason for migration , as already outlined earlier in this chapter , is economic , but also that the most dominant newcomers are Pahl 's ‘ spiralists ’ . |
| 7 | The Lord Chancellor had been in a position to negotiate this with the Treasury . |
| 8 | The detective-constable who had brought in the exhibits had said that the girl had been to a dance . |
| 9 | A great deal of diversification has been of a conglomerate , ‘ unrelated ’ nature , but it seems hard to find any justification for unrelated diversification . |
| 10 | Next day the guns of the Tower fired a victory salute and Sir John Ligonier wrote to Cumberland on the 25th : ‘ This town has been in a blaze these two days . |
| 11 | One aspect of IBM Corp 's business has been in a state of suspended animation throughout its woes so far : its turnover has not declined significantly . |
| 12 | One aspect of IBM Corp 's business has been in a state of suspended animation throughout its woes so far : its turnover has not declined significantly . |
| 13 | His security had been in a family that was to lose its roots , and in a sister who was to lose her life . |
| 14 | The poor darling had been through a lot and could n't be expected to … well , she was sure Melissa would understand how he must be feeling . |
| 15 | But his wife , who 's the Mayor of Cirencester , said her husband had been under a lot of pressure recently . |
| 16 | You and your body have been through a lot of stressful experiences , both good and bad , and it could be as long as two weeks before you feel like doing anything except the most gently of runs . |
| 17 | The corpse has been in a freezer in Hawaii since he died there in exile in 1989 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Since the news had spread about him working on the case , the whole of the station had been in a state of excitement . |
| 20 | If the defect had been in a component of the toaster , say the heating element , the result would still be the same unless the heating element had not been supplied as part of the toaster ( e.g. had been bought as a replacement later ) . |
| 21 | He and a friend had been on a cycling tour of the Himalayas , when they paid for the papers from a local travel agent . |
| 22 | A 32 year old manager may be full of vigour , enthusiasm and malleable but a 52 year old manager has been through a couple of recessions , knows the ropes and cap pull a few more rabbits out of the hat . |
| 23 | YES , IT APPEARS THAT THIS KEELER WOMAN HAS BEEN IN A CLINCH WITH PROFUMO AND SOME RUSSIAN GEEZER |
| 24 | It has been suggested that the shock of widowhood for a woman is like compulsory redundancy for a man ; and for a woman whose career has been as a housewife this might certainly be the case , even though for others it could prove a relief from the narrow constraints of their domestic role . |
| 25 | The Judge held that the prosecution had been under a duty to disclose the video whether it had been demanded or not , that the view the camera had was of an area of the club that was relevant to the res gestae , that the tape would have contained matters of relevance to the defendants and that it was wrong for the police officer to have formed the view that it was of no relevance . |
| 26 | It was funny , in a Lewis Carroll sort of way , and at least the result was passable , if only as a trade magazine , whereas the woman 's magazine had been beyond a joke and she could not bear to look at the end product . |
| 27 | Mr Grant said Cornthwaite had been to a pub before going to the party with his girlfriend . |
| 28 | She would go back to Sea House and tell Stephen that his father had been on a train at the time of his mother 's death . |
| 29 | Ace had been in a situation like this before : in a VR game called Horror Walk 3 . |
| 30 | Police in the Co Armagh area have been on a state of alert since a massive IRA bomb devastated the centre of nearby Lurgan in March last year . |