Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [been] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ ICI has been the first in the field with major products , such as polyester fibre and polythene . |
| 2 | The women 's game is much more open today and Gabriela Sabatini has been the best player on the women 's tour this year . |
| 3 | One brighter aspect of the unemployment figures in Shrewsbury has been the steady and sustained drop in long-term unemployment . |
| 4 | Back in daylight , Vatanen has been the driving force behind the Banbury team today . |
| 5 | It had been Eleanor , quiet , firm , devoted whom Dorothea had loved , and Eleanor had been the only living person whose presence she could bear when Hallam died a year after their coming to Haverstock . |
| 6 | The Issak had been the main casualties in the government 's campaign to stamp out support for the rebel Somali National Movement ( SNM ) . |
| 7 | For several years Spain has been the biggest source of sales for the majority of ELT publishers ; indeed , it is reported that for one of the smaller players it represents a dangerous 50% of turnover . |
| 8 | The NFC has been the outstanding example where for seven years the company was owned entirely by the workforce . |
| 9 | We bought our ball in Dongbei too — from the no.1 department store in Dandong on the North Korean border ( could Korea have been the original influence ? ) . |
| 10 | On 27 June Tan Malaka and other leading Communists were set free and Sjahrir was kidnapped just as Sukarno had been the previous August . |
| 11 | Lenin had been the effective leader in the United States of Soviet Russia but he died in January 1924 , leaving two possible successors , Trotsky and Stalin , but Stalin had established himself in the Communist hierarchy and Trotsky was subsequently expelled . |
| 12 | Apart from Granny Tremayne , Edna had been the only other permanent reliable character in Celia 's youth . |
| 13 | Henry Phipps had been the chief celebrant at this particular form of ‘ get-together ’ , and now someone had brought his priapic revels to a rather spectacular end . |
| 14 | In this sense , all the diverse myths of classical tragedy are equally Dionysiac , and the same applies to the tragic heroes : for a long time , Dionysus had been the only character represented in the early drama , its only hero , and , until Euripides , all the different suffering heroes of tragedy were still " mere masks of this original hero " . |
| 15 | President Assad had been the first Arab leader to criticize the Iraqi invasion , but there was considerable apprehension in the West that Saddam Hussein 's emergence as a focus of anti-Western Arab radicalism might open the way to a rapprochement between Iraq and Syria . |
| 16 | Lithuania had been the first of the Soviet republics to declare independence , in March 1990 , and during the coup its two Baltic neighbours followed suit , Estonia on 20 August and Latvia on 21 August . |
| 17 | From the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 , England had been the dominant financial and commercial power in Europe and , on that basis , in the global economy ; the structural changes in the 1830s and 1840s were to consolidate that hegemony . |
| 18 | Deng Xiaoping has been the dominant figure within the upper echelons of the ruling Chinese Communist Party since 1980 . |
| 19 | So far as it is known , Noble has been the only born-deaf person ever to be a Freemason in Britain . |
| 20 | The main reason for the fall in profits at Sekers has been the unsettling effect on world markets for silk products of the unprecedented 75% retroactive rise in raw silk prices from China since April , as reported at the AGM in September . |
| 21 | Jacob Epstein had been the unwitting means of introducing Nina Hamnett ( Miss Hamlet to Montparnasse ) to Modigliani by recommending Rosalie 's restaurant to her . |
| 22 | In the days when Carnaby Street had been the spiritual centre of swinging London , everyone went to the Green Room . |
| 23 | The messenger had been sent by a group of Annan citizens loyal to the Bruce connection ; after all , the late King Robert had been the sixth Bruce Lord of Annandale . |
| 24 | She knew very well what they had been at ; she and Patten had been the same , when they were young . |
| 25 | Perhaps Brittain has been the chief contributor to his reputation by running horses in events in which they appear out of their depth . |
| 26 | Laporte 's trumping of Wassall on 8 January with a £135m bid for glue maker Evode has been the nearest thing to a typical bid salvo , although there have been some minnow-sized transactions . |
| 27 | Over the past few years , AZT has been the chief source of optimism about the company 's fortunes . |
| 28 | But for Christians Sunday has been the first day of the week ever since the faith came into being . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Rob McKinnon had been the only Hartlepool player not pilloried in that game , and the 23-year-old left-back was the most impressive player again . |