Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [been] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THINKING , talking and working along European lines has been second nature to Mike Ward for many years now . |
| 2 | Although we did not foresee any difficulties , we were astonished to hear that the Secretary of the Cabinet , Sir Robert Armstrong , had asked for the programme on the Suez operation of 1956 , in which Mountbatten had been First Sea Lord , to be deferred ‘ possibly for some months ’ . |
| 3 | By the time you realize your accountant has been second rate , your career may be over . |
| 4 | Mrs Frizzell stopped half-way into a bone-coloured skirt — bone had been last year 's fashionable colour , according to the Tollemarche Advent . |
| 5 | How different things had been last spring , for all their difficulties . |
| 6 | All are back with Parramatta and their father Les has been first grade manager . |
| 7 | The lie to Will had been second nature . |
| 8 | Samuel Barber 's Adagio for Strings was well enough played but lacked the last ounce of passion , and suffered badly from the aurally obtrusive air conditioning system , Randall Thompson 's Alleluya showed that the Festival Chorus on this occasion were equally as adept at unaccompanied singing as their counterparts had been last week . |
| 9 | It is only at this point that the newspaper reader learns that the rapist and the victim had been next door neighbours at the time of the original offence . |