Example sentences of "[art] [noun] have been [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of her eight-week course at the ICO she declared that the experience had been like a very deep well with pure water . |
| 2 | The ‘ Fury and the Spitfire has been to an airshow the previous day at Yeovilton , they had then flown to Humberside for another airshow and were on their way home . |
| 3 | The Dimblebys had been at a loss for words . |
| 4 | Since then the pickup has been in a police pound near Cheltenham . |
| 5 | The polytechnics have been under a similar financial strain . |
| 6 | The 23-year-old has been on a weekly contract since last season , but emerged as a leading figure following the injury to Paul Elliott . |
| 7 | Taking part in the programme has been like an exciting adventure , discovering the hidden strengths of a community in its parents , and the willingness of Community Mothers to contribute to growth and development within their communities . |
| 8 | Detailed seismic evidence indicates that the underthrusting has been at an angle of about 15° over a distance of about 300 km ; perhaps significantly this roughly corresponds to the average width of the Himalayas . |
| 9 | The engine has been on an electronic diagnosis machine ( like a Sun tester ) and everything was shown to be set just about right . |
| 10 | The detective-constable who had brought in the exhibits had said that the girl had been to a dance . |
| 11 | The girl has been in a council children 's home and with foster parents since being made a ward of court . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | Her memory of the room had been of a dingy , barrack-like hall with fine plaster swags , marred by the fact that chunks of them had been missing , and they , and the room , not improved by having been painted in a weird mixture of colour : purple , pink , green , ochre , rather like the bike belonging to the old man on the S-Bahn . |
| 14 | The war had been over a long time . |
| 15 | Britain 's financial withdrawals from the IMF had been on an unprecedented scale . |
| 16 | Since the news had spread about him working on the case , the whole of the station had been in a state of excitement . |
| 17 | The corpse has been in a freezer in Hawaii since he died there in exile in 1989 . |
| 18 | The teams have been on a rigorous training schedule for the hundred mile long test of skill and stamina . |
| 19 | The teams have been on a rigorous training schedule for the hundred mile long test of skill and stamina . |
| 20 | Historically the BBC has been in a privileged position to negotiate coverage with the ‘ gentlemen amateurs ’ of the MCC , the Committee of the All-England Club , and the four rugby unions . |
| 21 | Fourteen per cent of the sample had been in a mental hospital at some point . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | Where the petitioner is found not to be entitled to have presented a petition or wished to withdraw his petition or allow it to be dismissed or fails to attend on the hearing , the court may substitute as petitioner any creditor who has given notice of intention to appear , wishes to prosecute the petition and is a creditor who would at the date of presentation of the petition have been in a position himself to present a petition against the debtor ( ie is presently owed more than £750 ) ( r 6.30 ) . |
| 24 | ‘ The Haven has been in a right uproar since the power failure , I can tell you . |
| 25 | The media has been in a frenzy over Christmas retailing . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | That day her bridal gown had been delivered , and the servants had been in a flurry of activity preparing the wedding banquet . |
| 28 | Where the reference was automatic ( £1,000 or less only being involved ) Ord 19 , r 6 provides that no solicitors ' charges or litigant in person costs may be awarded except the costs which were stated on the summons or which would have been stated on the summons if the claim had been for a liquidated sum , the costs of enforcing the award , and such further costs as the arbitrator may direct where there has been unreasonable conduct on the part of the opposite party in relation to the proceedings or the claim therein . |
| 29 | Some reports said that the operation had been against a training camp for Islamic fundamentalists and army deserters established by Said Mekhloufi , a former army officer said to be now allied with the FIS . |
| 30 | Since the Headmaster had been in a bad mood almost everything anyone did was at the risk of being punished . |