Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 'm happy for them both , Reg has been a lonely man and my mother has also been lonely since dad 's death . |
| 32 | The history of religion in England has been a complex one — Monasticism , the Dissolution , the Reformation , Nonconformity , and other events and disciplines have also played their part . |
| 33 | On his return from the east , he found Arabs in the local Pyrenees also , Saracen raids from Spain having been a regular affliction here since the eighth century . |
| 34 | Constanza would have liked Simon to have been a conscientious objector . |
| 35 | The assassins had never been traced , and the British authorities had said they were Sinn Feiners ; it was a stupid accusation , for MacCurtain had been a staunch Republican himself , so nobody had any doubt that the killers were Black and Tans . |
| 36 | At one time , the Order of True Valiance had been a strong and powerful body of men , slaves to no one and nothing . |
| 37 | Mr Leach had told the court that Curtis had been a staunch supporter of the anti-smoking campaign and that his father had died from lung cancer . |
| 38 | The loss of his agents amongst the Ping Tiao had been a serious setback , and the men he had bought from amongst their ranks had proved unsatisfactory in almost every respect . |
| 39 | Prior to a right-wing military coup led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte in September 1973 [ see pp. 26151-52 ] , Chile had been a parliamentary democracy with an executive President and a National Congress elected by universal adult suffrage . |
| 40 | If Wordsworth had been a simple country boy , they could have patronized him ; the Johnsonian style of the Preface to Lyrical Ballads showed that he could write like the gentlemanly reviewers if he wanted to , and nothing is more infuriating than one of our own sort who ‘ lets the side down ’ . |
| 41 | Tom Reynolds had been a loyal and useful ally but now his usefulness was almost at an end . |
| 42 | If Ramsbum had been a human being Amiss might have suspected that he was seriously feeling grief . |
| 43 | The owner before Uncle Titch had been a retired seaman and he 'd renamed it the Turk 's Head , not after an Ottoman warrior , as most people thought , but after a special type of nautical knot that looked like a turban . |
| 44 | Exeter had been a committed Lancastrian who had suffered forfeiture of his estates to the crown , so that in effect the endowment of the Greys was being made out of the royal lands . |
| 45 | Exeter had been a committed Lancastrian who had suffered forfeiture of his estates to the crown , so that in effect the endowment of the Greys was being made out of the royal lands . |
| 46 | From his exile in France Bakhtiar had been a fierce critic of Ayatollah Khomeini , Iran 's spiritual leader following the 1979 revolution . |
| 47 | A tragedy in a way , for I thought that Allan Wells had been a great athlete . |
| 48 | Bringing the Bob Marley had been a good idea , there was n't a cheaper car in the yard , it seemed , except maybe the white Vauxhall Astra with the shirt-button wheels , a car Duncan the Drunken , in a rare lucid moment , had described as a jet-propelled tennis shoe . |
| 49 | The scheme to impose military control over Kinsai had been a logistical catastrophe , and it was the utter inefficiency above all which had made Alexei suspicious . |
| 50 | Thurmaston had been a typical Leicestershire village with all its farmhouses and cottages clustered together and surrounded by its huge open fields until the enclosure award of 1763 . |
| 51 | Carol 's been a bad girl so Carol has to be put in her place in front of the man . ’ |
| 52 | After all , Bryan has been a funny kind of marriage guidance counsellor . ’ |
| 53 | His interests have not been confined to chest disease and smoking , however : Professor Fletcher has been a tireless campaigner for better communications between patients and doctors . |
| 54 | Coun Michna has been a leading opponent of the scheme , which he says is inappropriate for Clairville Common . |
| 55 | YTS has been a major provider of new opportunities and through its funding mechanism , its special assessment and age exclusions , and its provision of special equipment and services , it has shown itself to be responsive to the needs of very many young people with disabilities and learning difficulties . |
| 56 | And the corollary of disillusionment with the USSR has been a new readiness to subject the hallowed events of 1917 to criticism . |
| 57 | Of all its international forays , only Hongkong Bank of Canada has been a clear success . |
| 58 | Roger Snowden , managing director of the Fine Chemicals division , said ‘ Buckhaven has been a true success story . |
| 59 | Ian says from then on Robert has been a changed man — withdrawn and completely unapproachable . |
| 60 | Bob Stevenson has been a worthy successor to Methodist leaders who stamped their personalities on the county . |