Example sentences of "[vb past] been a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His memories of Heather , bolstered by his possession of her photographs , had given him courage and hope , emotions to which he had been a stranger for more years than he cared to remember . |
| 2 | Though I was exhausted and had managed only nine miles , it had been a better day than the first . |
| 3 | If Emerson had had the finance to develop a team properly , if his brother had been a better manager and if Emerson himself had not become frustrated as a driver by his car 's constant failures and retirements , if , in short , he had got his act together , he would quite possibly have made a first-class constructor and been hailed as a Brazilian Ferrari or Chapman . |
| 4 | If he had been a better negotiator , he would have closed the sale that day . |
| 5 | I think , probably if it had been a cuter dog the but it 's a vile dog to photograph ! |
| 6 | Underlying this had been a deeper fear of more extreme socialists , especially the syndicalists , who might threaten violence and revolution . |
| 7 | Was she a fool to hope there had been a deeper meaning in that fierce command ? |
| 8 | Natwest Bancorp said there had been a further reduction of charge-offs with its allowance for loan losses standing at $568m , or 4.68 p.c. of total lending . |
| 9 | There had been a further recent development ; only a couple of days ago Herr Hamnett 's brother , another agreeable young gentleman , had turned up and collected his entire belongings . |
| 10 | By 1971 there had been a further reduction in this proportion , so that only 4.3 per cent of the population lived beyond what may be considered practical limits for commuting to metropolitan labour market centres . |
| 11 | He seemed to be unaware that there had been a further post-duopoly review and that competition within the telecommunications industry is being opened up generally . |
| 12 | His parents had died as prisoners of the Japanese in Singapore , and it had been a further great grief to Alicia Lockwood when her beloved nephew had been killed in the desert in 1942 a few weeks after Sara was born . |
| 13 | Dana told me she had been a tougher nut for Daine to crack , and had had her mind scrambled and unscrambled several times . |
| 14 | Even in death , some members of the Glencairn family could not forget that she had been a commoner and objected to her burial in the vault . |
| 15 | Into the Home territory beyond they had to go fairly warily , but less so than if they had been a weaker company , not because of fears that the Homes would betray them to Dunbar but in that they were always jealous of their declared rights to decide who should enter their country and what they should pay for the privilege ; but two hundred and fifty well-armed men in tight formation carried their own safe-conduct , and they rode through without challenge . |
| 16 | Britain 's initial strategy had been a smaller version of the comprehensive US and USSR space programmes . |
| 17 | She looked across at her companion , whose gesture at dressing for dinner had been a newer , cleaner white sweater , and slightly less disreputable denims . |