Example sentences of "have been a [adj] [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A nicer and generally more caring bunch of people it would be hard to find , and to quote an old cliche in a genuine sense ‘ it has been a real pleasure talking to you ’ . |
| 2 | He has been a fantastic friend helping me with financial work . ’ |
| 3 | Mr Peter Preston , editor of the Guardian , yesterday said : ‘ This has been a long time coming and there are things in it like the enhanced role for proprietors that I 'm not very keen on , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Gooch 's biography has been a long time coming but Ivo Tennant has been thorough in his survey of hitherto uncharted waters , and the wait has been worthwhile . |
| 5 | But Boogie 's TriAxis has been a long time coming , and there are great expectations to live up to … |
| 6 | With more and more database engines sitting on networked servers , it has been a long time coming — the tricky bit , says Shandell is implementing ‘ remote queue pointers ’ . |
| 7 | It has been a long time coming , and apparently impatient fans bombard the Pan press office weekly for information on its appearance . |
| 8 | and that has been a long time coming but it now appears to be |
| 9 | If , for instance , there has been a cold wind blowing for several days and the water temperature has been well down for the time of year , then the wind ceases and the sun brings a sudden warmth to the water , you can almost guarantee that the carp will begin to feed . |
| 10 | On the import side there has been a disturbing trend comprising two related factors : |
| 11 | I am not flattered at all by the fact that I 'm the only one who has been a published novelist writing from inside South Africa . |
| 12 | We noted that controlling for sex would have reduced the size of the original effect , because there would have been a spurious component stemming purely from the fact that more women are in low status jobs and more women go absent . |
| 13 | There must have been a veritable orchard flourishing in her wake , which could account for the sudden urge to build an orangery among the nobbery . |
| 14 | At its worst it may have been a parasitic racket representing only itself to the detriment of all , but on the larger canvas of society it gave political power to a narrow group of substantial landowners in loose alliance with merchant princes and the small towns which returned members to Parliament . |
| 15 | It could have been a tongueless dwarf standing by the road to point the way … |
| 16 | Behind the hound there would have been a rectangular plate containing an iron rivet . |
| 17 | On chalk subsoil an accumulation of water in holes and pits may have been a severe problem making timber ‘ halls ’ the more popular structure . |
| 18 | Appointed a Privy Counsellor two years ago , his promotion seems to have been a long time coming , prompting some commentators to dub him ‘ The Nearly Man ’ . |
| 19 | In the beginning Dungeness is conceived to have been a simple spit springing from the coast in the vicinity of Fairlight ( A on Fig. 8.31 ) and extending eastwards across a broad bay now occupied by Romney Marsh . |
| 20 | It had been a long time living in a hole in the ground , let's hope things get better . |
| 21 | In a way , the revolution had been a long time coming and somewhat contained in America , despite the reactions of the mass media which had been — like all conservative America — horrified , if not titillated by the lurid images of beat youth . |
| 22 | Maybe because tonight the warning had been a long time sounding , had started its tormented wailing just when everyone began to think the bombers were n't coming . |
| 23 | There had been a low haze hiding most of the surrounding hills , the loch had seemed suspended in some floating mirage , broken only by the oars rattling , and the water that slopped in the bottom of the boat . |
| 24 | In ‘ The Decline of the English Murder ’ he argued that whereas in the past murder had been a serious business involving strong personal commitments and emotions , it had now become an almost casual affair informed by ‘ the anonymous life of dance-halls and the false values of the American film ’ . |
| 25 | There had been a recent incident involving my younger brother , Russell , who had been at a party and on his way home been accosted by a group of men that he knew , who were in a car . |
| 26 | If the Institute had been a private company preparing for flotation at the end of 1992 , then its operating surplus of over £600,000 on a turnover of above £8m would have made it a very attractive investment . |
| 27 | The Algiers accord of 1975 , whose repudiation by Iraq had been a major factor precipitating the Iraq-Iran war in 1980 , gave both countries access to the Shatt-al Arab waterway . |
| 28 | It had been a wonderful surprise seeing Madeleine with Aubrey and their friend , Lionel Dunbar , on the quayside . |
| 29 | The Visigoths had been a sedentary people living north of the Danube . |
| 30 | And Ben had been a shadowy figure representing that other world ; the world into which Johnny could not pass . |