Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] have [been] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Literature — above all fiction — has never been a notably gentlemanly profession in Britain , as Dickens and H. G. Wells illustrate ; and the Bloomsbury group had been upper middle-class rather than aristocratic . |
| 2 | Noone has come out to say it ( excepting twats like Emlyn Hughes ) , but even all the Wilko for England stuff has been negative saying he s the same a taylor , ie long ball . |
| 3 | PHYSIOTHERAPY experts at Teesside Polytechnic have been busy helping pupils from a Middlesbrough school make a video about the dangers of developing brittle bones through unhealthy diets . |
| 4 | In large areas of Britain the results of the Thatcher government had been mass unemployment , collapsing public services , and urban decay . |
| 5 | This point has been reinforced further by the findings of Goldsmith and Newton ( 1986 ) who show that , while the Thatcher government has been very directive towards local authorities on council house sales , by contrast it hardly involves itself in matters of environmental health ( a reflection of the much lower priority the Thatcher government gives to this policy area ) . |