Example sentences of "have be a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grandstand/insurance fiddle has been a complete balls up . |
| 2 | The lobbying of America has been a curious off-the-books exercise ( see box on next page ) . |
| 3 | Maybe that 's one reason why this show has been a few years in the making . |
| 4 | Since November 1990 he has been a special projects engineer . |
| 5 | She 'd even felt the odd pang of nostalgia for the old days when she 'd been a young wet-behind-the-ears singer , just beginning to make her way up the ladder . |
| 6 | When we were there Stan was with us and he 'd been a few times to Brussels to with the Labour Party and , and he said oh it 's great ! |
| 7 | I suppose if I 'd been a few years older , I would have replied , ‘ Is n't that the only way to treat it ? ’ |
| 8 | And there must have been a hundred copies of a pamphlet on the campaign against street trading in animals . |
| 9 | She must have been a hundred miles away , she realised , trying to get her thoughts together . |
| 10 | The British government over the water could have been a million miles away ( for detailed accounts see Arthur 1984 ; Buckland 1979 ; Farrell 1976 ; for a summary see McAllister 1983 ; for a summary of all forms of discrimination adopted , see Whyte 1983 ; Hillyard 1983 ) . |
| 11 | He was only a few miles away but for him it might as well have been a million miles . |
| 12 | Could have been a million miles away . |
| 13 | But it might as well have been a million miles away . |
| 14 | There must have been a dozen rotundas , each displaying blow-ups of contemporary newspaper clippings , photographs , posters , etc . |
| 15 | It must have been a dozen years since they were last used . |
| 16 | It can be assumed then that by 1910 the age range ran from 14 to 43 for certain , and there will most likely have been a few women in their late forties or early fifties . |
| 17 | There may have been a few villages abandoned in the aftermath of the plague , particularly those on poorer soil , as their inhabitants moved to better lands to take up holdings which had fallen vacant . |
| 18 | There would always have been a few men who had been dancing barechested all the evening , dancing with the fierce attention of the tango , or the apache ; these were the ones who stayed on late . |
| 19 | Thiercelin was somewhat less interested than he would have been a few days earlier . |
| 20 | Sometimes , people in ancient places , in flashes of paranormal imagination , see once again the Forum in Pompeii as it must have been a few days before Mount Etna 's eruption ; or — was it Freud 's or Jung 's story ? — musicians in a Rhenish Schloss , playing clavichords for a duke and his family . |
| 21 | up till the age of , about sixteen , after my birthday , the baby would have been a few weeks old , I thought well , if you 're under sixteen , do n't think about the Pill , they 're not going to give it to you . |
| 22 | However , because of the recent advent of food surpluses , this is n't the same problem as it would have been a few years ago . |
| 23 | After all , Papa was only just forty-one , and Mama was younger than that , and they were both so handsome that it was a wonder — or perhaps not — that they were so faithful to one another , so much so that it was almost a joke , Papa having been a great ladies ' man in his youth , she had discovered . |
| 24 | The only thing that stuck out in a day that seemed to have been a hundred hours of confusion was that nun . |
| 25 | There appears to have been a colonnaded pronaos in front with a wide intercolumniation . |
| 26 | The resulting film , Royal Family ( or ‘ Corgi and Beth ’ as it was nicknamed ) , in which , among other things , the Queen was shown cooking the steaks at a barbecue , was revolutionary in its revelations , and considered inside the Palace to have been a public relations triumph . |
| 27 | Churchill had been a hundred miles from London , weekending in the country . |
| 28 | What , then , of life and death in a typical Victorian family , compared with the way things had been a hundred years previously ? |
| 29 | It had been a nine days ' wonder , during which no charges had been brought , but Travis had told her to her face that he knew she had taken it . |
| 30 | Coffin wondered if the inhabitants of Drake Towers , with their BMWs and Porsches , knew that the old Francis Drake Street had been a regular thieves ' kitchen . |