Example sentences of "have be [pron] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the last decade alone there has been something of a holocaust of the scarcest of our earthly resources , natural beauty . |
| 2 | In this country , the Basic Instinct furore has been something of a non-event . |
| 3 | Conservative ministers and many commentators claim that there has been something of a revolution in British politics in the 1980s . |
| 4 | There has been something of a revolution in raising standards of quality in a number of manufacturing firms by encouraging departments within a factory to operate almost as separate companies . |
| 5 | Shaping the health care of around 900,000 people living in and around Glasgow has been something of a challenge . |
| 6 | Instead there has been something of a supermarket approach : according to the interests of the teacher a number of packages have been bought off the shelves and put in the course trolley . |
| 7 | A bloc the West can do business with Eastern Europe has been something of a wasteland for EC investment but as Julian Bullard reports , all that is changing . |
| 8 | Bringing out reports on IT has been something of a growth industry . |
| 9 | Dr Browne has been something of a maverick in Irish politics even up to this present time . |
| 10 | It has been something of a mystery how this move came about . |
| 11 | Since the late 1970's there has been something of a boom in British Rail 's passenger services , with over 150 new stations having been opened and several new services developed . |
| 12 | Oh I 'm alright do n't worry about me I 'm , they , the person at home , their family must be told as well as you making a note in your accident book that there has been somebody with a knock on the head however mi minor it is , it 's got to be reported , because that knock could have repercussions , it could have broken a small vessel in the brain , it could still be bleeding and that is when compression takes over . |
| 13 | How can a man who believes that from foetus to Senior Citizen Railcard his existence has been nothing but a nuisance , that in his wake he has left nothing but pain and trouble , possibly love himself ? |
| 14 | I do not mean to imply , he wrote , that nothing existed before that moment , no plans , no designs , no sketches and no notes , of course there were plans and designs , sketches and notes , how could there not be , he wrote , when my whole life has been nothing but a preparation for this beginning , not only in the sense that everyone 's life is always a preparation for every beginning in that life but in the quite specific sense that my own life has always been a preparation for this beginning , nothing but a preparation for this beginning , both consciously and unconsciously , with everything I have done as well as everything I have thought , everything I have felt as well as everything I have suffered . |
| 15 | For one thing , there has been nothing in the festival from the really great names , save for Satyajit Ray , whose transposition of An Enemy Of The People seems to me , though hardly on the top level of his work , to be both eloquent and deeply felt . |
| 16 | ‘ You know perfectly well that the girl has been anything but a comfort to me . ’ |
| 17 | He may have been something of a money-hunter , as his correspondence shows , but on the other hand he had a big family of relatives with a call on him . |
| 18 | Teaching history and religious education to cockney teenagers must have been something of a culture shock , but Eva seems to have thrived on It , and the lively East End lads would have appreciated her outgoing personality and no nonsense approach . |
| 19 | This may have been something of a rationalisation of his instinctive desires , but it was a perfectly defensible attitude . |
| 20 | It must have been something of a shock to her system . |
| 21 | There were times when she must have been something of a pain to her superiors , but once again people were beginning to take note of her talents . |
| 22 | Army food might once have been something of a joke , but certainly not any more . |
| 23 | ‘ I just felt that though we were 14 when we last met there must have been something of the child left in our features to make us recognize each other after half a century . ’ |
| 24 | Many observers noticed the force and weight of his presence ; it might be called dedication , or ambition , or it might have been something below the level of consciousness which propelled him forward . |
| 25 | So suddenly , David had wanted something — I do n't know what it was — it might have been something like a synthesizer or some extraordinary thing for the show , but the money was n't there . |
| 26 | Then when we come back to stand down , we came back to Tolbertstead well we was in Tolbertstead so the Tolbertstead canteen staff got some hot prepared some hot drinks and so when we come back we was able to have a hot drink and erm it was the duty of er the sergeants to see that the rifles were empty free , no am no , there was n't er there was n't one up the spout , one bullet left in the , in the rifle and er Sergeant , the barber , was checking our rifles anyway he , he was check , check , check , check and er alright he mischecked one and pulled the trigger and there was a bullet through the roof in the , in the he was holding it up or otherwise there 'd have been somebody on the floor but er he , he missed this one bullet through the canteen roof . |
| 27 | It must have been somebody from the village . |
| 28 | It must have been someone from the village , Rose said : who else would be walking in the woods at that hour ? |
| 29 | ‘ Of course , ’ Athelstan continued , ‘ the assassin may have been someone in the Tower who knew where Sir Ralph lay , and seized the opportunity of the moat freezing over to gain access to the footholds on the North Bastion . |
| 30 | He could have been anything except an army officer in the most sensitive intelligence branch , renowned for undercover operations in Northern Ireland . |