Example sentences of "been [art] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision was believed to have been the first time that a US court had extended prisoner of war status to a convicted criminal . |
| 2 | It 's been a long time since a league game was played at Molyneux against Stoke . |
| 3 | Ahead , on a right-hand bend , was the farm , but it had been a long time since a chicken had shat in that yard . |
| 4 | Youth unemployment has since the mid-1970s been a central fact or a central fear of many young people , and has affected many others . |
| 5 | In the autumn there had been a great commotion when a large party of the King 's and Warden 's men , some fifty of them , mounted and heavily armed , gathered on Steep Ridgery and carefully marked where the plumes of smoke were rising — often there were more than one — and made off purposefully towards them . |
| 6 | In the 1920s , she 'd been a great beauty and a sharp dresser . |
| 7 | This may not be obvious if there has been a major problem and a solution has evaded many attempts to reach it . |
| 8 | It did n't really matter , their expressions seemed to say , he might as well have been a short-order cook or a deep-sea diver or a male prostitute . |
| 9 | It had been a heavy lunch and a pleasant wine . |
| 10 | Once she had tried to describe these feelings to Brian , but , while he had been prepared to admit that her mother was virtually certifiable , he had given it as his opinion that her father had been a remarkable man and a fine artist and richly entitled to his eccentricities : indeed , it had been incumbent on him , Brian had implied , to flout the conventions . |
| 11 | ‘ It appears there 'd been a big row and a parting of the ways before my agent tracked them down , but my premise was right : they 'd been staying with one of Svend 's college friends at his parents ’ apartment on the outskirts of the city . |
| 12 | But the mercury content of the sediment could soon improve if Liverpool Bay follows the pattern of the Manchester Ship canal , where there already been a significant decrease and a corresponding decline of mercury in the estuary 's surface sediment . |
| 13 | Peach , who often sat on the chestnut leaf table , marking it no more than if he had been a fluffy cushion or a nightdress-case cat , watched gravely from the basket in which he was wise enough to sit when at home on Sundays . |
| 14 | ‘ But it has been a wonderful year and a wonderful time for me . |
| 15 | He remained there for what must have been an anxious day and a night while the elephant returned to and from a nearby stream with trunkfuls of water with which it was finally able to loosen the roots of the tree , push it over , then trample its victim just as his belated rescue-party arrived on the scene . |
| 16 | On balance it has been an enjoyable task and a great privilege to undertake on behalf of the Club necessitating searches through some 4,000 documents , including old copies of the Standard back to 1895 . |
| 17 | That it should require a lid painting at all suggests that it can not have been an English instrument or a Ruckers , and , if its shape is drawn as carefully as the presence of an accompanying scale would indicate , the rather blunt double curve of the bentside would suggest one of the Hamburg makers . |