Example sentences of "[verb] been [art] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he 'd been convinced , he would 've been the first to nab the Cap'n . |
| 2 | The response from the Fed itself after its Open Market Committee has been a cautious wait-and-see approach . |
| 3 | And after two or three years of ‘ what seemed like free fall ’ in the early 80s , there has been a significant levelling off in the sales graph and the cost base has been radically improved . |
| 4 | Witness Poland , which has been the first to recover from three years of relentless slump . |
| 5 | While most interest has been attracted by the expensive buys , one of the cheapest lots on offer has been the first to grade . |
| 6 | Pickering , with all his experience , has been the biggest let down . |
| 7 | Indeed , he and C.Z. must have been a divine couple themselves , and his spirit informs C.Z. 's conversation at every turn . |
| 8 | Do you think Ruddock would have been a good buy ? |
| 9 | As Branson would have been the first to acknowledge , common sense dictated that he avoid it at all costs . |
| 10 | What 's more , I would have been the first to complain . |
| 11 | Just such a sentry must have been the first to die , the night the Welsh came . |
| 12 | The preceding section ( as Tolkien would have been the first to declare ) probably falls into the perennial academic vice of neatness , over-valuing system and ‘ invention ’ instead of ‘ inspiration ’ . |
| 13 | The giant herbivorous dinosaurs would have been the first to go , as plant matter became scarce , but they would soon be followed by the large carnivores that had preyed upon them . |
| 14 | Of all these expanding emotions , the one which we call compassion , may have been the first to emerge and could be the one of greatest importance , but the origins of all of them could almost certainly be found far back in evolutionary time . |
| 15 | The 6000 surviving Orang Asli are divisible into three groups : the 2000 nomadic foraging and trading Semang ( who may have been the first to arrive ) , with temporary camps in the forest ; the Senoi with shifting cultivation ; the Proto-Malays who replace the forest with their own gardens and fruit trees . |
| 16 | I would have been the first to know . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ My father would have been the first to have congratulated him if he had been here , ’ he said . |
| 18 | ‘ It is 30 years since my father 's first victory here and I am sure he would have been the first to have congratulated Ayrton on breaking his record of five wins . |
| 19 | While his passion for theology seems to have pre-occupied him mainly during his period as a cardinal , he would not have been the first to have changed the direction of his interests when more practical challenges came his way . |
| 20 | ‘ Spinal Tap ’ may have been the ultimate send up of the genre but ‘ Spinal Tap ’ is most metal fans ' favourite film . |
| 21 | Mrs Cottrill , 56 , said : ’ We wonder whether the verdict would have been the same had Fiona been French . ’ |
| 22 | Would the impact have been the same had the final , in this particular instance , been anywhere but France ? |
| 23 | He must have been the last to drink it . |
| 24 | 6 IF super Mario Bros 3 had been a film it would have been the biggest earning movie of all time . |
| 25 | It remains to be seen whether it will prove to have been a short lived experiment or the basis for UK urban policy . |
| 26 | A question which still greatly puzzles utilitarian thinkers , on which Sidgwick seems to have been the first to touch , is whether the utilitarian goal is the maximisation of total or of average welfare . |
| 27 | This fact , together with the facts mentioned above , that Fahreddin Acemi appears to have been the first to hold the office of Mufti without an accompanying kadilik and to have been the first to receive a salary specifically in respect of the Muftilik , makes it a reasonable assumption that he was the first Mufti in the sense commonly understood in later times . |
| 28 | This fact , together with the facts mentioned above , that Fahreddin Acemi appears to have been the first to hold the office of Mufti without an accompanying kadilik and to have been the first to receive a salary specifically in respect of the Muftilik , makes it a reasonable assumption that he was the first Mufti in the sense commonly understood in later times . |
| 29 | Tim Renton could be said to have been the first to grasp this nettle . |
| 30 | The name most associated with long-wave theories is Kondratiev , a Soviet economist , who is widely believed to have been the first to develop the theory . |