Example sentences of "have been [art] [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She always always oh she she had a second sight like that , I think she should 've been a doctor if she 'd lived in these this day and age . |
| 2 | He would 've been an asset if he 's |
| 3 | It was crucial to the consistency of the work that it should not conclude : the narrator simply states that ‘ there has been no decision except that I 'm moving on ’ ( Wurlitzer 1969 : 161 ) . |
| 4 | Place has been a wreck when they 've got it back . ’ |
| 5 | And besides , it has been a while since I have wandered four-footed with my children . ’ |
| 6 | André Leon Talley of American Vogue has been a friend since he headed the Womenswear Daily bureau in Paris in the Seventies . |
| 7 | The construction equipment giant has been a customer since the early Seventies , and has taken delivery of 150,000 engines to date . |
| 8 | Ipswich , 7 miles south , has been a settlement since the Stone Age , with interesting historical buildings and good modern amenities including a large shopping centre and leisure complex . |
| 9 | In other words , one legacy of the regime of Councillor Pickles and his colleagues has been a city where the Conservatives have managed to stem the tide to Labour over the past decade . |
| 10 | They are an important source for two reasons : they indicate that the overload problem has been a constant since the Second World War and is not peculiar to the sixties , seventies and eighties , and that even what has come to be regarded as the most efficiently run administration since 1945 had serious difficulties in the handling of business . |
| 11 | Unemployment over the decade has been a disaster though the total has steadily fallen in the last two years . |
| 12 | A Customs and Excise spokesman said they can not tell if there has been an offence as they are not sure if an import licence was ever necessary . |
| 13 | A major problem has been the delay before the government department in question produces any response to the report . |
| 14 | For the Compton family in Bicester life without a car has been the norm while their car is repaired after a serious accident . |
| 15 | It has been overtaken by local practices and informal agreements — and that has been the case since mechanisation of the industry began in the 1950s . |
| 16 | Problems of a somewhat similar kind occur up to the death of Stephen on 25 October 1154 , and even after that date there are various kinds of complication ; the first to be noted is that the reign of a monarch did not automatically start , or be deemed to start , on the day his or her predecessor died , or vacated the throne , as has been the custom since the death of William III on 8 March 1722 . |
| 17 | erm There always has been the situation since Derek Roberts retired , and in fact his post was put in the pollution section , where there was only one E H O , the agreement then that there would be a swap straight E H O for technician swap , but food had traditionally , as long as I 've been involved have three E H Os . |
| 18 | However , central to this development has been the debate as to whether action should extend beyond the immediate needs of the establishment of the internal market . |
| 19 | Maybe people thought that since she 'd been a witch when alive , she 'd be a ghost once she was dead . |
| 20 | Maybe people thought that since she 'd been a witch when alive , she 'd be a ghost once she was dead . |
| 21 | This , however , would have been a mistake as there were many quieter rewards : Richard Haslam on ‘ The patronage of repair : Palladio 's Villa Saraceno in its twentieth-century context ’ and Stephen Lloyd on ‘ Richard Cosway and the Prince of Wales ’ to name two , while Emma Barker 's ‘ Illegitimacy and the rights of the unmarried mother in eighteenth-century France ’ quickly dispelled any notions the audience might have had of topicality , and offered a reasoned discussion of nature versus civilisation in eighteenth-century literature and painting . |
| 22 | Allott , also 35 , was recalled from holiday in Wales to discover his fate , but it could hardly have been a surprise as he has not regularly figured in Lancashire 's games this season . |
| 23 | There must have been a draught because I wrapped my coat around my knees . |
| 24 | ‘ Must have been a relief when he was killed . ’ |
| 25 | This could have been a winner if the quality of the keyboard was up to that of the casing . |
| 26 | I put it to Andy that it must have been a blow when they split in 1988 , but he , ever the voice of reason , says , ‘ There was no point in trying to keep them together , it had gone as far as they wanted it to go and they wanted to do something different . |
| 27 | I 'm almost certain I would never have been a writer if it was n't for the Moroneys . |
| 28 | It could be argued , on a theoretical level , that that should have been a concern since the use of SSAPs by businesses means that the compilers of the national income accounts are presented with the same problem — but that is left to the statisticians to resolve . |
| 29 | She could have been a dancer if she 'd taken lessons . |
| 30 | ‘ But , ’ Paula hesitated , then went on , ‘ it must have been a massacre when you evaded that truck . |