Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been an idiot many times , ’ declares Mr Slater , ‘ and I 'm not proud of it — but AIDS has scared the s*** ( sic ) out of me . |
| 2 | Peggy 's voice sounded quiet , even gentle as , looking from one to the other , she said , ‘ I 've been an idiot , have n't I ? |
| 3 | All these years I 've been an idiot . |
| 4 | I 've been an activist for over twenty years in this organization . |
| 5 | Brian , 44 , said : ‘ I 've been an Elvis fan since 1954 and have all his records . |
| 6 | Ehm er chair er Sheila from Harlow secretary of the film society which has operated here since the playhouse opened moved from the town hall er we do get people past the door we have been doing in years erm and I personally I 'm also here as an individual I 've been an arts lover for forty five years of my life in Harlow . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been an engineer for a long time , and I 've always believed that ethics and integrity were every bit as important as theorems and formulas , and never once has anything happened to change my beliefs . |
| 8 | It threatens the worst for John Ryan , Wyllie 's Welsh counterpart , for whom 15 short months in charge have been an eternity . |
| 9 | What , if the comedians had have been an hour late , would you have booked |
| 10 | This year , in St Petersburg alone , there have been an army colonel , two Communist Party officials , a university teacher and a tax collector kidnapped . |
| 11 | Joan is also a keen squash player and her mathematical skills have been an asset to the Society on a number of occasions e.g. masterminding ticket sales for the Royal Albert Hall — the 30th Anniversary draw and collecting various Society statistics . |
| 12 | This may have been the simple truth ; it may , alternatively , have been an instance of the use of delay by an intelligent but reluctant pleader . |
| 13 | Parts of South-west England have been badly hit but reports of a national epidemic have been an exaggeration , according to the research unit of the Royal College of General Practioners . |
| 14 | Parts of South-west England have been badly hit but reports of a national epidemic have been an exaggeration , according to the research unit of the Royal College of General Practioners which collects reports from more than 200 doctors at 62 practices throughout England and Wales . |
| 15 | ‘ For most of the last 1,000 years , the universities have been an engine of social mobility ; they are now , thanks to the funding system , a means to ensuring that the graduate class is hereditary , ’ Sir John said . |
| 16 | There are many people like Olive who have been an inspiration to me . |
| 17 | There he flung himself into the local setting with characteristic abandon and commitment , participating in the daily round of village life with an eagerness and zest which he attributed partly to his Polish temperament ; there he established standards of meticulous and painstaking observation and inquiry which have been an inspiration to social anthropologists ever since . |
| 18 | Which museums have been an inspiration ? |
| 19 | CATS have been an inspiration for 12-year-old CATHERINE DANIELS . |
| 20 | Right from the beginning the Immigration Laws have been an attack on black people as workers . |
| 21 | From the point of view of the educational process considered as a cultural experience , this shift would not , in itself , necessarily have been an issue . |
| 22 | Extended hours have been an issue that Management is pursuing . |
| 23 | Marketing Boards have been an instrument favoured by most African governments as a means of ensuring that farmers have an outlet for their crops , and that urban consumers pay for basic foodstuffs at a controlled , often subsidized , price . |
| 24 | There must , for example , have been an industry in the Mesara Plain to supply the large numbers of votive figurines that are found in the tombs of that region . |
| 25 | ‘ Players like Steve Mungall have been an example to everyone else at the club . |
| 26 | Could there have been an epidemic of some kind in the village around this time ? |
| 27 | They have been an action-packed eight weeks , with map reading , first aid , nuclear , biological and chemical warfare instruction , weapon training , fieldcraft , physical training and a myriad of other subjects to prepare the recruit for her chosen career . |
| 28 | Interim Payments have been an option open to pursuers since 1974 . |
| 29 | In this book , we tried to develop a somewhat new approach to grammar , based on the idea that grammar , to be useful to the learner , should be ‘ communicative ’ , i.e. should relate the forms and structures of the language to their meaning and use In terms of the number of copies sold , this has been the most successful book of which I have been an author . |
| 30 | Whereas other books ( especially those on semantics and pragmatics ) have often received unfavourable reviews , Style in Fiction has received the most favourable reviews of any book of which I have been an author . |