Example sentences of "[det] [pron] [noun sg] have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took a great deal of courage — and self-love — to admit that all her suffering had been in vain . |
| 2 | Galliéni , who was senior to Joffre , had been offered the supreme command , a post he turned down on the grounds that all his experience had been as a colonial soldier and administrator . |
| 3 | The court found that all his experience had been in these areas ; he had always worked for the plaintiffs and therefore the clause rendered him unemployable over a very wide area for a significant time . |
| 4 | Whereas Foucault was inclined to remark that in retrospect he considered that all his work had been about power , it seems almost equally possible that his analyses of power constitute a continuing meditation on the phantasm . |
| 5 | This is a new role for many of those whose background has been restricted to teaching but an entirely familiar one to those whose background has been in interpreting . |