Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] have [adv] been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was philosophical , not to say laid back about the inconvenience of being called out unnecessarily at the end of what had already been a long day . |
| 2 | In retrospect , what Essays in Criticism seems to have represented was the institutional absorption after the War of the so-called " critical revolution " of the interwar period , and the professionalisation of what had previously been a more or less oppositional movement within the academy . |
| 3 | Last year a cache of Second World War shells were unearthed on the site of what had previously been a scrap yard . |
| 4 | This was reflected in a loosening of what had traditionally been a strong correlation between landownership and civil and military office , especially at the highest level . |
| 5 | Rather there had been a subtle unravelling of what had once been a more integrated pattern of recreation . |
| 6 | The cliffs which had proved so difficult bordered a valley a mile or more across , the bed of what had once been a great , meandering river . |
| 7 | We had a collection of cars , mostly rather old , but here was an example of what had once been a great cultural status symbol . |
| 8 | It was on the first floor of what had once been a small eighteenth-century town-house . |
| 9 | The time difference between London and Mexico City is six hours , and because we had been travelling with the sun , it was still quite high in the sky as we descended into the sepia haze that hung over the whole flat expanse of what had once been a great lake . |
| 10 | The glade where the ghost orchids grew amid the crumbling remains of what had once been a Roman villa was as cool as the church , and an unmistakable smell of summer blossoms mingled with the lush green growth of the wood . |
| 11 | The whole area was no more than ten or fifteen years old , straggling along either side of what had once been a country road and ending messily with the shell of an unfinished building of some indeterminate nature . |
| 12 | He is also concerned about being unable to control their value on the open market , with individuals making money out of what had originally been a means of raising money for charity . |
| 13 | Oil will remain the major fuel but the most significant growth will be in gas consumption as more use is made of what has traditionally been a vastly abundant and wasted fuel . |
| 14 | This will be an important and helpful clarification of what has recently been a vexed issue , and will undoubtedly have a bearing on pre-school provision . |
| 15 | The sort of ‘ gallivanting about ’ that he seemed always to associate with her had never been a part of her life at all . |
| 16 | Her window looked out of the back of the house , onto what had once been a small garden . |
| 17 | The centre of the discussion was the school curriculum ; and it was frequently observed at the time that this was the first occasion on which politicians or the public at large had concerned themselves with what had hitherto been a wholly professional matter . |
| 18 | And a mess of twisted brass bonded with what had once been a small but efficient pulse-receiver . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , fraud in itself has not been a sufficient inducement to force agricultural reform . |
| 20 | The April 19 Movement ( M-19 ) won 19 seats , marking a clear breakthrough in what had historically been a two-party system dominated by the PL and the PSC . |
| 21 | The new Arrangements are very similar to the 1988 Scheme , the main , and welcome , change being the removal of the lower tier in what had previously been a two-tier system for remuneration for advice at police stations : a solicitor could undertake up to £90 of work , extendable retrospectively , where the client was in custody for an arrestable offence , but only up to £50 ( non-extendable ) otherwise . |
| 22 | Joseph Maloney , secretary of the local angling association , said at the time that earlier , less serious pollution caused by Mogul had killed all fish life in what had once been a good trout and salmon river . |
| 23 | Ashley lived in what had originally been a farmhouse , a couple of miles outside Praia do Carvoeiro . |
| 24 | In what has always been a loose network , the international conference , held every 18 months or so since the mid' 70s , has always been most prominent in publicising the cause of action research . |
| 25 | Politically , it was essential last summer to distance the government from what had clearly been a shabby episode . |
| 26 | Ceilings and floors dangled from what had once been a department store . |
| 27 | That to me has always been a fruitless quest . ’ |
| 28 | Pale curtains with butterflies on them had once been a blaze of colour but now were nondescript . |
| 29 | After 1918 the ILP was also able to recruit Liberal radicals from the middle classes to what had always been a predominantly working-class party . |
| 30 | What an inglorious end to what had once been a busy loco shed that had been the scene of so much activity in its heyday . |