Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] have [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ballymena , still without the injured Stevie Smith , have something to prove from what for them has been a poor season . |
| 2 | Two other Section I matches see Schweppes Cup winners North Down entertaining North , with the aim of finishing third in the league to complete what for them has been a fine season . |
| 3 | Cocaine thus became another of the subjects which Ellen and I decorously avoided , like the existence of God , the wisdom of my having been a marine , feminism and the cartoons in the New Yorker . |
| 4 | Dana did n't come to the showroom either ; she had appeared for a fitting and for a rehearsal , as she had promised , neither of which had been an outstanding success . |
| 5 | Capital provision to support these two areas is scarce and the 1990s are going to test even the most supportive administrations to meet urgent demands for library extensions and preservation/substitution programmes , neither of which has been an established part of institutional budget planning , nor likely to receive much more than sympathy from the funding councils , except perhaps in cases where enormous growth in student numbers have caused such pressures on space . |
| 6 | British television has mounted a highly successful comedy series called Yes Minister , the main theme of which has been an elected cabinet minister being constantly deflected from his preferred politics by senior permanent officials primarily concerned to protect their own positions . |
| 7 | Samuel Sharp writing in 1847 says : ‘ There is evidence … of its having been a Roman settlement in the time of Agricola , and that his legions established here a permanent encampment , the remains of which are clearly traceable even to the present day . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The reading of it has been a good preparation for Lent as far as I am concerned : for it shows me ( through the heroine ) the special sin of abuse of intellect to which all my profession are liable , more clearly than I ever saw before . |
| 9 | Today 's announcement comes at the end of what had been a successful decade for the Trust . |
| 10 | She stared down at the floor and the remains of what had been a human being . |
| 11 | World War two was only a recent example of what had been an historical constant . |
| 12 | Mr Maclean replied : ‘ The fact that we do have a full investigation of what has been a small emission does show how rigorous the inspectorate systems are in this country . ’ |
| 13 | Crystal Palace1 ARSENAL , back to the form which earned them two championships in three years , will use the rest of what has been a disappointing season for them to lay the foundations for future challenges . |
| 14 | The end-of-term jollity was illustrative of the relaxed atmosphere that has pervaded the final week of the Liberal Democrat election drive — a product not merely of the light-headedness of exhaustion but also of the undoubted success of what has been a well-judged campaign . |
| 15 | ‘ The basic concept was that there should be a period of restraint to redress the balance of what has been a tremendous amount of development over the years , ’ he said , referring to the support the parish council had given to county and district while they were drawing up their local plans . |
| 16 | The establishment of the Enterprise Staff Development Programme ; the setting up of an Academic Link scheme ; the ‘ piloting ’ of ‘ Live Projects ’ ; a ‘ pilot ’ Student Tutoring scheme ; enterprise studentships ; the formation of a network of Enterprise Co-ordinators are a few ‘ highlights ’ of what has been a busy programme of work for the year 1992/1993 . |
| 17 | My dialogue with them has been an important part of the process of valuing their own contributions . |
| 18 | Toddler walks with her had been a superhuman test of patience as she squatted by every puddle , slowly stirring the water with sticks , and picked up myriads of stones , tenderly brushing them free of earth and inserting them with infinite laboriousness into pockets already grinding with pebbles . |
| 19 | Spending even this short amount of time with him had been a big mistake . |
| 20 | He wanted to blurt out that she looked beautiful in blue , that he 'd like to kill the man who 'd been in her flat the previous evening , that he hoped her date with him had been a miserable failure , that he had hardly slept a wink all night , beside himself with jealousy . |
| 21 | Following dissension over the appointment to a professorship at Aberystwyth in 1919 ( connected in part with his having been a conscientious objector during the war of 1914–18 ) he withdrew from his academic post in order to study in the faculty of science at the University College . |
| 22 | In between there has been a great diversity of titles and two journals . |
| 23 | Revisionists have therefore questioned the notion that the commune in itself had been a major barrier to improvement or labour mobility and , equally , the notion that dismantling the commune would in itself provide a major stimulus to agricultural development . |
| 24 | Oh I do n't know where it came from it 's been a long time . |
| 25 | They were in what had been a walled garden and was now just a mass of rubble . |
| 26 | But as she made her way back to the table , Polly 's fierce satisfaction at having the last word in what had been a nerve-shattering encounter quickly faded . |
| 27 | It was his first refreshment in what had been a heavy and unrewarding day ; his leading lady had been difficult , and wanted to marry him ; the audience , confronted with an expensive cast , had been unresponsive . |
| 28 | At Bridgwater , in the following month , Vernon Bartlett , a Liberal supporter of the " Peace Alliance " , was elected as a " Progressive " in what had been a National seat . |
| 29 | The Bridges Community Centre was opened in 1987 in what had been a derelict factory canteen on a large industrial site in Monmouth . |
| 30 | In December 1914 Edith Pye went to Châlons-sur-Marne to set up a maternity hospital for women refugees from Reims in what had been an insane asylum , without hot water or electricity , fifteen miles from the fighting line . |