Example sentences of "been [prep] [art] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By mid-morning he had been through the day 's edition of the Herald Tribune . |
| 2 | It had been necessary to handle the appointment rather delicately , as when the post was originally advertised it had been for a boys ' school , 600 strong ; with the anticipated changes this would soon develop into a co-educational establishment of up to 1,000 . |
| 3 | The two sides might have parted company there and then had it not been for the GLEB 's condition that someone with newspaper business experience should be on the executive . |
| 4 | If it had n't been for the Neds ' moral scruples , those garments could have been bigger and cooler than F**k . |
| 5 | If it had n't been for the Neds ' moral scruples , those garments could have been bigger and cooler than F**k . |
| 6 | Price Waterhouse 's UK practice would have experienced a negative growth rate in fee income in the year to June 1992 , if it had not been for the firm 's corporate recovery arm . |
| 7 | To discover how cost-effective it was to sustain at home people who were judged likely to have been in an institution had it not been for the project 's services . |
| 8 | Herluin might hold it against the boy that he had disgraced Ramsey not so much by attempting theft , but by making a botch of it , but Herluin had also been of the abbot 's party . |
| 9 | If Sinead had wanted to do a Benetton shocker , the photograph used would have been of the boy 's body . |
| 10 | They bought a flat in the capital , Nick attended art school for a while there , and Laura made a very close friend of a woman whose unusual shop had been opposite the Ashley 's first boutique on the Left Bank . |
| 11 | I decided then that I did n't want to be a martyr , and since then I have n't been near a hairdresser 's . |
| 12 | The report has been with the department 's accountants for more than three weeks as they check its factual accuracy . |
| 13 | But do we believe modern scientists , none of whom has actually been inside a whale 's belly ? |
| 14 | ‘ My wife rightly points out that I 've never been in a ladies ' loo in my life . |
| 15 | whether it could properly be said that it 's a duty because it 's not , it 's a guide , er the question arises as to whether it 's a duty but of course it 's here , it 's always been in the expert 's report incorporated in it the reference to it erm but er Lord in my submission er it is undoubtedly correct that your Lordship would be greatly helped by hearing evidence from a solicitor engaged regularly , frequently , in commercial conveyancing work as to what the extent of the practice , the accepted practice and the professional standards operated by solicitors in this field and |
| 16 | By the end of the year he had obtained livery of his spiritualities and temporalities , although a protracted and bitter dispute ensued for over a year with Archbishop Walter Reynolds [ q.v. ] over the sums Hamo claimed as due to him for vacancy , during which the see of Rochester had been in the archbishop 's hands . |
| 17 | The report , which had been in the government 's possession for eight months , revealed that department officials had misappropriated funds , running into many millions of rands , intended for distribution in rural communities in the bantustans ( homelands ) . |
| 18 | This struggle , and the Greek unity half achieved in the course of it , must have been in the programmatist 's mind ; but the project was paid for out of spoils from the conquest of one Greek city by another , and the golden shield proudly crowning the newly finished temple was set there to celebrate an early clash in the fatal hostility of Athens and Sparta which was to culminate in the Peloponnesian war and the ruin of Greece . |
| 19 | He was a trusted friend and one of the few people ever to have been in the Prince 's employ who spoke frankly to him , and when asked would give an honest , if sometimes unwelcome , opinion . |
| 20 | having been in the US 's ‘ back yard ’ I know how little attention is paid to those issues there . |
| 21 | If she 'd been in the kid 's place , she 'd have run off by now and left them all to it . |
| 22 | It was pleasant to live in the open , and easy to provision both men and ponies ; and the courtier and man of law who had lived a high life in the London Inns and colleges , and been in the king 's own service , was nonetheless a hardy Welshman , well able to campaign in the hills winter or summer , and never complain of a hard bed or a scanty meal . |
| 23 | Babangida had been in the President 's lodgings , which suffered heavy damage , when the attack started . |
| 24 | When they had been in the chemist 's buying shampoo , Mr Kennedy had asked what he could do for the two young ladies and they had been pleased . |
| 25 | The drawing has been in the patron 's family since that date and has never previously been exhibited or published . |
| 26 | How he must have wished to have been in the puppet 's place , no policies , work and no strings attached . |
| 27 | But in view of passages in Revelation like 7:3 which speak of ‘ sealing the servants of God in their fore-heads ’ , and Romans 4:11 which speaks of circumcision as ‘ the sign and seal of being in the right with God through faith ’ , it is not impossible that baptism may have been in the apostle 's mind when he spoke of this sealing with the Spirit . |
| 28 | Although you have not been in the manager 's seat very long , you have done nothing to alter my original opinion that your appointment makes about as much sense as the Charge of the Light Brigade . |
| 29 | Wellington , had he been in the Emperor 's boots , would have chosen that strategy . |
| 30 | A woman who has been in an employer 's scheme for 17 years out of a total working life of 34 years will expect her employer to pay exactly half of her additional pension . |