Example sentences of "have [been] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Disney has been in a protracted dispute with contractors over costings . |
| 32 | For more than a year now , that masterpiece of engineering and sculpture , the great Peterhof cascade ( 1714–21 ) consisting of 279 sculptures and sixty-five fountains , has been in a critical condition . |
| 33 | Proving ignorance of facts that one might or might not have known is impossible , unless one has been in a well-documented coma . |
| 34 | Since the beginnings of technology , now about 200 years ago in the case of the U.K. , the labour market has been in a continuous state of flux . |
| 35 | ‘ The Haven has been in a right uproar since the power failure , I can tell you . |
| 36 | The tender has been in a finished condition for some time and was seen at the last Open Day some two years ago . |
| 37 | Indeed it could be argued that ever since the 1960s when inclusive charter holidays began to ‘ take-off ’ the United Kingdom industry has been in a continued state of flux . |
| 38 | I believe a lot of what they have done has been in a calculated way , like getting George Best on the cover . |
| 39 | The protection is acquired once an employee has been in a particular employment for two years , though there are special rules concerning part-time employees and for calculating the date up to which the continuous employment is measured . |
| 40 | Historically the BBC has been in a privileged position to negotiate coverage with the ‘ gentlemen amateurs ’ of the MCC , the Committee of the All-England Club , and the four rugby unions . |
| 41 | Ever since the record industry walked off the dancefloor , disco has been in a constant state of revival . |
| 42 | The figures are good news and show how successful the company has been in a competitive market . |
| 43 | All that we have written in this section has been in a light vein , but there is a very serious side to it . |
| 44 | ‘ Now he 's happier , I think , than he 'd been for a long time . |
| 45 | She had no wish to hurt Anna and besides , how could she complain when the truth was that she was happier here at the palazzo than she 'd been in a long time ? |
| 46 | I think if I 'd been in a Western country I would have had a lot more comeback … |
| 47 | I 'd been in a light sleep . |
| 48 | This may have been for a local production company producing a video for one of their corporate clients ; at the other end of the scale , you may have written some pieces for the broadcasters ( BBC , ITV , etc . ) . |
| 49 | The simplest method would have been for a French submarine to wait for the Rainbow Warrior somewhere on the high seas and sink it with a torpedo but that posed the problem of what to do with any survivors . |
| 50 | Few of the youngsters will have been to a big match ; what they are emulating is what they have seen on television in shop windows and heard on their transistors . |
| 51 | However , Foley 's mill was probably the first erected in the midlands , and may have been of a new design . |
| 52 | structures , their possibilities I mean at one stage they would have been at a certain level had n't got a landlord their income but that 's within one particular moral economy , now the idea here is to break that down , you know , just get rid of the circle altogether . |
| 53 | Initially a pitch of a ♯ = 408 was chosen as being close to the Bate Collection 's recorders of the period : at this pitch it sounds fine but one could easily allow that the original use of the instrument might have been at a higher pitch than this . |
| 54 | It was even rumoured that Western architects were approached , but that must have been at a subordinate level since early on one clear idea took hold of Ceauşescu 's mind : the whole project , from design through the workforce to the materials used , must come from Romania itself . |
| 55 | Also aware that I was happier with the evasion that I would have been with a wrong answer … |
| 56 | It is not that prospects for earnings are 10 p.c. better that they were in the middle of last week , but it is possible to argue that prospects are that much better than they would have been under a Labour government and that the market was discounting such a result . |
| 57 | We all know the facts and figures by now … if you do n't then you must have been on a different planet this weekend … |
| 58 | It must have been on a main line , because there were two sets of tracks , and the mouth of the tunnel had seemed to him — he might have been five , six ? — bigger than anything he had ever seen , bigger than anything he had known could exist . |
| 59 | Cos the carpet must have been worth a bloody fortune anyway ! |
| 60 | However he considered that Vial ‘ was a man of such good natural abilities that when his mind was at ease , he had so much application that his deficiencies , had he lived , might have been in a great measure made up ’ . |