Example sentences of "they [vb base] been a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He does n't now , whether they 've been a super star for a long time or if he 's never heard of them . |
| 2 | They 've been a great help , actually . |
| 3 | Particularly in the streets that have undergone a great deal of change since the war , like the street where I live myself , which is another thing that prompted me to , to go into the research in the first place , which is erm a house of small Victorian erm I believe the estate agents call them artisans ' cottages , and this kind of area which , there 's a great deal of this sort of property in Brighton , has undergone enormous changes since the war from being multi-occupied before the war , with one family on each floor , were regarded immediately after the war as slums and were scheduled for demolition , but they 've been a great lease of life all over the country , this sort of property , and been subjected to a process which has come to be known as gentrification , which has meant that when the middle class could n't afford to , to buy semi-detached in suburbs they took to buying this kind of smaller property in town centres , thereby introducing a whole new element into streets that had never seen these , this kind of things done to houses before . |
| 4 | Hence they have only contributed in a limited way to post-war housing , but they have been a major feature of a commitment to planned decentralization , even though , as Aldridge ( 1979 ) concludes , by the end it was a programme without a policy . |
| 5 | They have been a major force in church planting in south-east London in the 1980s . |
| 6 | I was wrong , and they have been a dramatic success . |
| 7 | More recently they have been a popular adventure playground for youngsters . |