Example sentences of "[noun prp] have been the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One brighter aspect of the unemployment figures in Shrewsbury has been the steady and sustained drop in long-term unemployment . |
| 2 | Back in daylight , Vatanen has been the driving force behind the Banbury team today . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Issak had been the main casualties in the government 's campaign to stamp out support for the rebel Somali National Movement ( SNM ) . |
| 5 | The NFC has been the outstanding example where for seven years the company was owned entirely by the workforce . |
| 6 | 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 ? ) . |
| 7 | On 27 June Tan Malaka and other leading Communists were set free and Sjahrir was kidnapped just as Sukarno had been the previous August . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Apart from Granny Tremayne , Edna had been the only other permanent reliable character in Celia 's youth . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 " . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Deng Xiaoping has been the dominant figure within the upper echelons of the ruling Chinese Communist Party since 1980 . |
| 14 | So far as it is known , Noble has been the only born-deaf person ever to be a Freemason in Britain . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Jacob Epstein had been the unwitting means of introducing Nina Hamnett ( Miss Hamlet to Montparnasse ) to Modigliani by recommending Rosalie 's restaurant to her . |
| 17 | In the days when Carnaby Street had been the spiritual centre of swinging London , everyone went to the Green Room . |
| 18 | Perhaps Brittain has been the chief contributor to his reputation by running horses in events in which they appear out of their depth . |
| 19 | Over the past few years , AZT has been the chief source of optimism about the company 's fortunes . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Sihanouk said that he was particularly pleased with Qian 's announcement that China would restore aid to all four factions through the SNC ; previously , China had been the main backer of the Khmers Rouges . |
| 23 | At school she and Adam had been the different ones , the Demdykes — the ones with a dead mother and a crazy father . |
| 24 | Hugo had been the privileged one , his mother an earl 's daughter , his father a baronet and a distinguished soldier , possessor of the Berowne name , inheritor of what remained of the Berowne money . |
| 25 | Ernst & Young has been the exclusive distributor for KnowledgeWare in Europe since 1986 , but the company now has direct distribution operations in most European countries including Belgium , Denmark , Finland , France , Germany , Italy , the Netherlands , Norway , Portugal , Spain , Sweden and the UK . |
| 26 | Of the rest Matthew Cooper played as a fledgling in the All Blacks ' scamper through Japan in 1987 ; Jon Preston had one game in the World Cup last year ; Kevin Schuler appeared briefly as a replacement in France in 1990 ; and Graham Dowd had been the reserve hooker for the World Cup and the home series against the World XV and managed a short time on the field when Richard Loe was injured in the second half of the First Test against Ireland . |
| 27 | ‘ David McCallen has been the big difference to Bangor . |
| 28 | Smith argues that Britain has been the classic case of this . |
| 29 | At each stage of the story , Britain has been the odd man out . |
| 30 | From the Golden Age of the Renaissance , through the days of the Grand Tour and right up to the present day , Italy has been the Golden Land . |