Example sentences of "[been] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | had been nothing but a black window space . |
| 2 | Sales , however , have been disappointing , and there 's been nothing like the same kind of interest the earlier books had . |
| 3 | My thoughts this evening are much centred on Bishop Harris as he prepares to lay down the ministry which has been his for the past 14 years . |
| 4 | Who the other call was to Jihan has never revealed , but it is certain that it must have been someone of the highest importance , and that her purpose was to obtain from the most authoritative source possible some outside indication of what was happening in Egypt . |
| 5 | If I am unfortunate enough to experience the untimely death of several people I am attached to so that it forms something of a pattern , then I am likely to experience considerable difficulty with my bereavements : there has been none of the unconscious preparation for the death of someone close that goes on in our awareness of incidents that are likely to occur . |
| 6 | There have been none of the special postage stamps or government statements which usually mark bicentenaries of famous writers . |
| 7 | There have been none of the head-on clashes that occurred in 1986 , when President Mitterrand had as his prime minister the neo-Gaullist Jacques Chirac . |
| 8 | There has n't been one for a long time and that 's all I can say . |
| 9 | You 've always been one for a quiet life , have n't you ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 've never been one for a sweet wine Never . ’ |
| 11 | This change has not necessarily been one for the better . |
| 12 | Little is known of eruptions there , but there may have been one in the last decade , since sets of aerial photographs of the island taken many years apart show some slight changes . |
| 13 | He was a small man , bald and beady-eyed and turkey-necked , and only in retrospect could she see that he 'd probably been something of a mental case as well . |
| 14 | His father had been something of a rough diamond , barely literate and excelling in " drinking , whoring , gaming , fishing and fighting " . |
| 15 | Er you saw the er saw him five years ago in the navy , now it could 've been just a regular check which every seaman gets or it could be , it could 've been something of a serious nature . |
| 16 | His letters to his daughter Amanda , accompanied by her explanatory editorial notes , reveal him to have been something of a tender tyrant in his dealings with his three children , and much happier in the country watching birds than in London coping with editors and producers . |
| 17 | A manufacturer of rich men 's toys , Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd had itself always been something of a rich man 's toy , owners like the mythical David Brown ( he of the DB4 and 5 ) underwriting the firm 's losses for sheer love of the marque . |
| 18 | Broadly , there was stability in the marriage rates from the 1870s to the 1940s , although there appears to have been something of a minor dip in those getting married in the late 1920s and 1930s . |
| 19 | At an outstanding elevation of 1000 feet , the Fat Lamb has had its fair share of battles with the elements , and its proprietors , Paul and Helen Bonsall , admit that the garden 's survival has been something of a minor miracle . |
| 20 | Readers have suggested that it might have been more profitable to give more space to fewer sorts of vegetable , but that would have been something of a soft option . |
| 21 | Actually I have been something of a clothesaholic recently , do n't tell Derek , but I have to put that fitted wardrobe under lock and key when he 's back and hope he does n't keek in through the louvres because I would n't want him to think I was extravagant . |
| 22 | In looking back at the department 's achievements , one has to accept that reorganisation which Judy and Simon have already referred to , has because of its sheer scale and impact on N C V O been something of an abiding preoccupation over the past twelve to eighteen months . |
| 23 | In spite of his enthusiastic involvement in Wales , he must then have been something of an unknown quantity and it is possible that his role in the north was originally envisaged as that of one among equals . |
| 24 | In spite of his enthusiastic involvement in Wales , he must then have been something of an unknown quantity and it is possible that his role in the north was originally envisaged as that of one among equals . |
| 25 | There 'd been something in the local papers about me and my work , and these girls , aged about eight to eleven years old , sent me a book of poems they 'd written , printed and sold to raise money . |
| 26 | Same age as Francesca , and had attended the same good North London all-girls ' grammar school , for entry to which aspiring parents would have been prepared to pay blood-money had there been anyone in the austere intellectual governing body and teaching staff who would have taken it . |
| 27 | The second Adam came , however , not only to save humankind , but to take us on to the destiny that should have been ours in the first place . |
| 28 | This would have been what in the late forties or fifties , would this be ? |
| 29 | And that would of been what in the fifties ? |
| 30 | He accepted that there had never been anything of a romantic or sexual nature between her and Florian . |