Example sentences of "[pers pn] 's [adv] been a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's ancient , and sexless the way the very old and the very young are , but she 's still been a woman , and I resent that , for my own good reason . |
| 2 | ‘ She 's always been a star . |
| 3 | for three quid — she 's always been a sports fan . ) |
| 4 | It 's since been a cafe , a grill and a bric-a-brac shop , with plans now to turn it into a museum and heritage centre ; something Browne Willis would doubtless have approved of . |
| 5 | It 's also been a favourite with the maintenance crews . |
| 6 | They think I 'm a dead duck but it 's not been a time you could write off . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's not been a failure of the organic principle , it 's been a failure of people , ’ says Melville unhappily . |
| 8 | It 's just been a bit of a surge once a month . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's a pity it 's just been a year . |
| 10 | It 's just been a matter of time . |
| 11 | ‘ Since then it 's mostly been a case of building up our database . |
| 12 | It 's just been such , it 's obviously been a thing that affected the whole community |
| 13 | And when it 's come it 's usually been a case of you can smell something horrible like erm you know when they 're emptying the slurries out in the pig farms . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , perhaps you can ring him after we 've gone and explain that it 's all been a mistake ? |
| 15 | It 's all been a bit too easy on the ear and eye . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's all been a bit bloody , I gather . ’ |
| 17 | In fact , it 's all been a bit of a downhill coast ever since ! ’ |
| 18 | It 's all been a bit of fun , bit of a laugh really . |
| 19 | Thank you for the dinner , but I 'm afraid it 's all been a waste of time . |
| 20 | it 's only been a university now for about sort of ten year well not even that , five or ten years I think . |
| 21 | ‘ That 's quick , Mrs Goodbody , ’ said Annie , ‘ it 's only been a couple of days . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It 's only been a couple of days , ’ said Joe . |
| 23 | And in the same you know , I mean er two or three years so there 's not gon na be much , and it 's only been a couple that are gon na |
| 24 | It 's only been a week since I was here , and she was in perfectly good health then . ’ |
| 25 | I have seen Colonel Steiner 's medical record and note that it 's only been a matter of weeks since he was gravely wounded . |
| 26 | Well it 's , it 's more like more or less just like today , you know , if you , if you 've got nowhere to go and they just put you there , but I mean now you ca n't get in very good can you really , not now , but erm , Pat since she 's been on duty she 's had a terrible trial , terrible she had to get one , help in this morning , get one of the floor next door , then we 've had trouble one down further , but she 's been put into erm Ashlyn now for five weeks , so she 's out the way for a little while we 've had an awful worrying time here though , it 's absolutely been a pantomime cos this has just keeps er throwing herself on the floor , all the time she 's doing it |
| 27 | And let's face it , it 's hardly been a lightning turnaround . |
| 28 | It 's long been a custom to knock farmers and the high subsidies that many of them receive . |
| 29 | Farika 's perspective on contraception : ‘ It 's never been a bed of roses . ’ |
| 30 | It 's never been a problem before . |