Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] been a [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | De Valera was continuing the now dominant culture recognized by Eoin MacNeill and Douglas Hyde when , in his St Patrick 's Day address to the United States of America , broadcast in 1935 , he underlined the spirit of that preamble : ‘ Since the coming of St. Patrick , fifteen hundred years ago , Ireland has been a Christian and a Catholic nation . |
| 2 | At one time , the Order of True Valiance had been a strong and powerful body of men , slaves to no one and nothing . |
| 3 | Tom Reynolds had been a loyal and useful ally but now his usefulness was almost at an end . |
| 4 | The monarchy in Cyrene had been a splendid and successful anachronism ; the ‘ democracy ’ which ousted it ( Arist. loc.cit. ) made no such splash in the world beyond Africa . |
| 5 | November had been a damp and drizzly month , bringing shorter days and causing aggravation to those people who found it increasingly difficult to travel in the blackout . |
| 6 | Despite what had happened between them , because it had been what she had wanted at the time and because Rune had been a generous and not over-demanding lover , and because she loved him , her own sense of self-esteem had remained whole . |
| 7 | And yet , it is said the Rochesters have been a violent than a quiet race in their time , perhaps though , that is the reason they rest tranq tranquilly in their graves now . |
| 8 | Though Mr Pinter has been a loyal and vociferous supporter of Mr Kinnock he sometimes needs to be cajoled . |