Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb -s] [been] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Up until now it 's been a duet between Anthony d'Offay and Lisson galleries to win the prize .
2 Well it 's been a discussion — if we can put it that way that 's been going on more or less throughout the nineteen eighties
3 Well he has been a bit
4 I sympathise with my hon. Friend the Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun ( Mr. McKelvey ) but surely he has been a Membeer long enough to know that the Government do not care .
5 Twice she has been a semi-finalist and twice a quarter-finalist .
6 Sometimes it has been a case of seeing something done really well and it inspires us to do it even better .
7 Most of them it 's been questions of rather less fundamental changes in the actual teaching style in the classroom and sometimes it 's been a question of concentrating on rather different kinds of things or giving more time to one kind of activity than another , or changing the pattern of assignments that they gave children , or things that were still well within the capacity of teachers to change without involving sort of fundamental changes in teaching style .
8 Indeed it has been a skill whose weakness has been at the root of many criticisms of GCSE papers where short answers are not deemed to be adequate foundation for A level .
9 And once again it 's been a week in which the events in the gulf have dominated the headlines .
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