Example sentences of "[vb base] been the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | er , I must , I always claim the attendance allowance when it has been as executive , as I 've been the one member from Wiltshire attending . |
| 2 | You 've been the one person in my life who has really influenced my art . ’ |
| 3 | It was all set up by , got the touch and gets the final touch with twenty four minutes gone and Notts deserve it , they 've been the better side in the early stages , but that will settle their nerves and give the Italians a little more to think about . |
| 4 | You 've been the very opery since we left Kilkeel . ’ |
| 5 | Lending to small business owners has become an important profit centre for banks and the importance of establishing an efficient means of raising finance is also vital to the economy , because ‘ recent evidence shows that small firms have been the major creator of new jobs in the 1980s ’ . |
| 6 | Green belts have been the major instrument of planning in fringe areas , having long been advocated by leading planning theorists such as Unwin and Howard . |
| 7 | Indeed , it is the implications of the changing age structure of the population of pensionable age and the likelihood of a continuation of that trend into at least the first decade of the twenty-first century which have been the chief concern of social planners and welfare economists , rather than the proportion of the total population entitled to draw retirement pensions . |
| 8 | Outside Europe the main developments have been the gradual relaxation in Japanese exchange controls and the steady move into foreign assets by the main United States institutions , particularly pension funds . |
| 9 | ‘ Cara , this time I have been the one wrestling with the problem of trust . |
| 10 | But for O'Conor , one suspects , following Field 's flights of fancy have been the best part . |
| 11 | I 've met some wonderful people , Bob Hope and Nat King Cole who much have been the nicest person I have ever seen |
| 12 | The main sources of regional tension in the 1980s have been the civil war in El Salvador , where the United States has provided ever-increasing amounts of military aid to a succession of right-wing governments , and the role of the United States and the US-backed Contras in undermining the Sandinista government in Nicaragua . |
| 13 | Celtic 's problem is that Rangers are one of the tiny minority and they have been the pre-eminent team on a domestic level , while the other half of the Old Firm have gone four years without winning anything . |
| 14 | Complex cases , or those where the sum at stake is above a specified limit , have been the sole province of the High Court . |
| 15 | To claim that Britain has nurtured something in a matter ultimately pertaining to worship ( the choral singing of cathedral and chapel ) which is purified and controlled beyond anything possessed by Catholic Europe , which is purged of excessive artifice and rhetoric ( Continental reviewers consistently find English a cappella performances impassive ) and whose excellence gives Britain a mission these are among the ideas that have been the principal source of British national identity since the Act of Union in 1707 and were a foundation stone of English identity long before . |
| 16 | These are questions which were first posed over fifty years ago , but they have obviously made little lasting impact on a literature where the expenditure flows depicted in elaborations of the model have been the principal focus of attention . |
| 17 | Concerns have been the small number of inter-disciplinary and student-led projects put up for funding . |
| 18 | For a century , after all , the bicheiros have been the closest thing in Brazil to a robber aristocracy . |
| 19 | Traditionally , individuals have been the central feature of attempts to understand corporate crime , but unfortunately for criminology , it was their pathological characteristics which were advanced as the cause of their deviations . |
| 20 | Yet , and particularly in the North where lost jobs , lost homes and lost hope have been the real consequence of this disastrous period , the answer is a resounding ‘ no ’ or an attitude of resigned apathy . |
| 21 | ‘ We 've played Bristol three times this season and they have been the better side each time . |
| 22 | Especially as we have been the better side 3 out of 4 matches . |
| 23 | Flat batteries have been the only problem . |
| 24 | In the 14 years since 1978 , during which I have been the only consultant physician in respiratory medicine in West Cumbria , there should , according to the above statistics , have been at least 70 deaths from asthma and yet I know of very few , having personal knowledge of only three . |
| 25 | Techniques for decreasing the opportunities for crime include such things as the better protection of property , which have been the usual focus of police crime-prevention programmes . |
| 26 | I mean there have been the usual number of pollution incidents and they seem to increase every year , er and a lot of those to deal with er as you say , I think one of the things which is , which is good is that public consciousness has been raised and people are much more aware of what they drink and what 's in their rivers . |
| 27 | Staple features of the church plan since early Christian times have been the cruciform shape and the division of the interior into a high central nave , flanked on either side by lower aisles . |
| 28 | Although slides and photos have been the traditional medium , and are widely accepted as substitutes for the landscape ( Shuttleworth , 1980b ) , Kreimer ( 1977 ) has also argued that they need to be put more fully into their context . |
| 29 | Its markets have been the developed world and its aim a quick profit . |
| 30 | The loss of Batty was a big blow to the midfield but the injuries to both Wallace and Speed have been the big set back this season . |