Example sentences of "that [noun prp] have been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh is , looking back , do you think that Harlow 's been a successful project ? |
| 2 | Burun guessed that Kiku had been no more than a hair's-breadth away from being impaled on the st'lyan 's gilden horn . |
| 3 | Official sources were quoted by the Agence France-Presse news agency ( AFP ) on Jan. 14 as alleging that Aref had been the financial backer of an attempt to assassinate political and military leaders ; if the plan had succeeded , they claimed , a " civil war " between the Afar and Issa communities " would have been inevitable " . |
| 4 | Gen. Kassem asserted that Kuwait had been an integral component of the southern Iraqi province of Basra under Ottoman rule and that Iraq had succeeded to Turkish territorial sovereignty over Basra with the dissolution of the Ottoman empire after the First World War . |
| 5 | There was in fact no shortage of evidence , even by those that were opposed to him , that Stalin had been an outstanding leader ( she quoted Winston Churchill to this effect , as well as de Gaulle and others ) . |
| 6 | Mr Leach had told the court that Curtis had been a staunch supporter of the anti-smoking campaign and that his father had died from lung cancer . |
| 7 | This done it soon became clear that Clairvaux had been no more than a pretext and that the real problems lay elsewhere . |
| 8 | It was revealed that Spiro had been a middle man between the CIA and MI6 over the release of Beirut hostages including Terry Waite and John McCarthy . |
| 9 | This is the second year that Guinness has been the chief sponsor of the event , following Murphy 's unsuccessful attempt to gain the right to the event back in 1992 . |
| 10 | Would the shed 's inhabitant necessarily guess that Mungo had been the uninvited visitor ? |
| 11 | During his visit to London , President Yeltsin noted that Britain had been the first country to denounce the August coup , and the first to recognise Russia ; the first to propose Russian membership of the International Monetary Fund ; the first to propose an April deadline for that membership ; and the first to support a stabilisation fund for the rouble . |
| 12 | Smith argues that Britain has been the classic case of this . |
| 13 | Their discovery showed that Rousay had been an important centre of power for the Vikings . |
| 14 | It does not make it any easier to do what we have to do , but it makes seeing what we have to do much clearer , because it then becomes obvious that Serbia has been the blatant aggressor in the war and that its aggression simply can not be tolerated by the international community . |
| 15 | It 's been certainly true er , Chair , that America has been the largest source of inward investment in this country consistently . |
| 16 | Rory , secretly , did not believe it , he held to his mother 's bitter view that Michael had been a feckless drunk , another feckless Irish drunk , who had died at the wheel of his car while returning from a bout of cross-border carousing in Dundalk . |
| 17 | ‘ Then you 'll also know that Zimbala has been a one-party state since it was granted independence by the French forty-five years ago . ’ |