Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] have [been] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the United States allergy has been a specialty for decades . |
| 2 | Johnny Hero has been a sterling encouragement to those same bands , promoting local and alternative music every Monday night on his Downtown Radio show . |
| 3 | As a route into Europe the Danube valley has been a funnel for migrating peoples since before history . |
| 4 | That Bingham-Jones boy had been a nuisance all day ; he was a spoiled brat ; and what he needed was a good smacking . |
| 5 | The Sunhill Scheme had been a failure ; existing machinery had not settled the wage issue ; nor had coercion put an end to desertions , while the seamen had concluded that their reasonableness and patriotism were being exploited . |
| 6 | But a £250 grant from Langbaurgh Council had been a lifeline , he said . |
| 7 | He contacted E. D. Morel , whose Congo Association had been a model of effective agitation ; Normal Angell , the best known public advocate of pacifism ; and Ramsay MacDonald , who had resigned the leadership of the Labour party when it agreed to vote for the war credits . |
| 8 | Wood cutting has been a trade in and around Halling for centuries , in early days wood having been used for fuel . |
| 9 | Michael Holly had been a prisoner of the camp for less than one month , and already he believed that he could walk this path with his eyes closed . |
| 10 | For the BBC , the Pilkington inquiry had been a vindication and a triumph , confirming the superiority of its own service over the commercial values of ITV , which was moving rapidly into surplus . |