Example sentences of "of [pron] [noun sg] have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best moments of my life have been with music . ’ |
| 2 | I want to forget that a big chunk of my life has been about being as good a dissident as possible . |
| 3 | I want to forget that a big chunk of my life has been about being as good a dissident as possible . |
| 4 | As most of their expansion had been in transport sectors , it was a natural step for them to try switching production from trucks to tanks . |
| 5 | His last sight of her reliquary had been at morning Mass . |
| 6 | All day long he insisted that they already knew who the fellow-Communists of his branch had been in the Forties and that he did not want to ‘ crawl through the mud for no purpose ’ . |
| 7 | But even in the 1820s some of his work had been on electricity and magnetism , which would now be thought of as physics ; and in the 1830s he moved decidedly in this direction . |
| 8 | If one of his family had been in the same position surely he 'd expect a stiffer sentence than the one given today |
| 9 | Which MP claimed to be the first in a thousand generations of his family to have been to university ? |
| 10 | Finally this study has given me a good idea of what life has been for people living in the past in America , where as before , I would n't have had a clue and it 's also taught me that no matter how many times you read a book , you 'll always find new links and connections . |
| 11 | The fourth way in which the underclass is immobilized at the bottom of our society has been through the spread of means-tested assistance , which has a devastating effect on the initiative of people on low incomes . |
| 12 | Much of our assistance has been in the form of contributions through the multilateral institutions the European community programmes , the European bank of reconstruction and developing , the world bank . |
| 13 | The experience has already been invaluable , as proved in the recent World Cup when the backbone of our team had been to the 1990 CANZ series where we lost all four matches ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ Others of our group have been in court on trespass before and the Invermoriston address has been accepted . ’ |