Example sentences of "[been] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know I have n't been the perfect father , but hell , you have n't been the perfect mother either . ’ |
| 2 | Perhaps the most important and far-reaching change in nursing in the past ten years has been the wholesale move away from the subservient , passive role of the nurse who was accountable to doctors for any treatments she undertook , and to nursing supervisors for standards of personal conduct and discipline . |
| 3 | With Reagan , they had been the chief cause all along . |
| 4 | A superbly organised defence has been the key factor so far and even now at the zero hour , the men at the back are steeling themselves for a final defiant gesture . |
| 5 | There could be no doubt that the Burgundian was the leading ruler in Gaul between 511 and 516 , and he may well have been the barbarian king most favoured by the court of Constantinople . |
| 6 | A major contribution to the growth of state power has also been the ineffective protection traditionally provided for political freedom by the British Constitution . |
| 7 | That must have been the only man ever to get no points three times in a row . |
| 8 | That had been the wrong thing too . |
| 9 | What would have been the local paper then the Advertiser still or what was perhaps the precursor of the Advertiser yes . |
| 10 | He knew everyone who mattered , and it was luck as much as anything else — what if reggae or jazz-funk had been the dominant force then ? — but Parsons was still capable of grabbing the opportunity when it knocked . |
| 11 | Judas has been the big winner lately , now he 'd be cockier than ever , and it was my fault . |
| 12 | What is more , there has been no other deposit quite like it either before or since , except perhaps some Miocene chalks which themselves are remarkably widespread : in the western approaches to the English Channel , in Malta , Cyprus and the Middle East and all the way to New Zealand . |
| 13 | If the Syrians had not permitted Hezbollah to have a presence in the southern suburbs of Beirut , there would have been no Iranian presence there . |
| 14 | ‘ There 's been no blind girl here . |
| 15 | Oh , it 's been a long day today |
| 16 | The Conservatives have been a long way ahead of Labour not just in seats ( an arbitrary effect of the electoral system ) but also in votes . |
| 17 | It was for a party in one of the upstairs rooms , but it had been a long time ago . |
| 18 | That had been a long time ago . |
| 19 | But that had been a long time ago . |
| 20 | It had been a long time ago and the jungle had reclaimed its own . |
| 21 | It must have been a long time ago . |
| 22 | He felt that he had been a long time away . |
| 23 | Well it 's been a long time now . ’ |
| 24 | It had been a long walk so far , and it was n't over . |
| 25 | Although there has been a substantial move away from the building of three or more bedroom houses in recent years , they still accounted for 60 per cent of the total housing stock in 1986 compared with nearly three-quarters a decade earlier ( Housing and Construction Statistics 1976–1986 , Table 6.8 , 1987 ) . |
| 26 | Darren had been a poor feeder even in the early days and mother remembered spending hours with him trying to get him to take the bottle . |
| 27 | Getting power out of the Honda NSR has never been a great problem though . |
| 28 | It 's lucky it should happen today ; it would have been a great nuisance tomorrow , in the train . ’ |
| 29 | The last two summers have been very hot and dry , although this summer has luckily been a great deal better . |
| 30 | There are enough good , specific reference sources available these days for the captions to have been a great deal more informative ; even at this very reasonable price the reader has a right to expect less of the hard work to be left up to him . |