Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] has [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not even try to prevent my journey , although she has been a perfect tyrant these many weeks , making me keep my bed ! |
| 2 | Too often Kendall seems preoccupied with finding a place in the team for Alan Harper , and although he has been a great servant to the club over the years , Everton will only be a really good side when he is playing in the reserves , and I do not mean that as an insult to Alan . |
| 3 | Just as Japan , a country dependent for 60% of its energy on oil , was a major sufferer when prices doubled in the second oil shock of 1979 , so it has been a major beneficiary of the subsequent fall in crude prices . |
| 4 | Remember , I 'm giving you this money because he has been a good boy . |
| 5 | This may be made worse if the patient feels stigmatized because he has been a psychiatric inpatient . |
| 6 | When he has been a Christian for three years , we find him , in the pages of his brother 's diary , reading The Epistle to the Romans , the greatest exposition in Scripture of the themes of Original Sin , Grace and Justification by Faith . |
| 7 | The bay of Saint lean is a noble , open prospect , though it has been a dangerous place too in its time . |