Example sentences of "been [prep] [art] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back in 1988 though , none of the above was known to this actress , who fancied herself as a serious artist who 'd been through the portals of the National and the RSC , albeit coming quickly out the other side , and whose biggest ambition was a ) to perfect a stage yawn , b ) to trim her inner thighs , and c ) to fry a perfect fishball . |
| 2 | Dr Williams has been through the ranks of the order and now holds the post of County Surgeon for County Durham . |
| 3 | In between the time the dustbins are put out and the truck arrives , the pickers have been through the contents of the bins . |
| 4 | Had it not been for the activities of Lady Laetitia 's lover , bold Sir Rupert Cartland ( played by an odious young actor who 'd risen to prominence by playing a tough naval lieutenant in a television series ) making with the garlic and the wooden stakes ( a bit of vampire lore crept into the script ) , Lady Laetitia and her father would have been turned into zombies and carried back to the subterranean cave , where they would never be heard of again . |
| 5 | If it had n't been for the machinations of Horemheb … ’ |
| 6 | The more the institutions of representative government demand technical efficiency from administrative organizations , the more those organizations have found it necessary to employ specialists and the more difficult it has been for the judgements of the career officials to be resisted . |
| 7 | The complex of disparate elements comprising academic English was always unstable , though they might have stayed together longer if it had not been for the demands of the academic environment . |
| 8 | To be fair , I did n't , I did say we 're talking about parenting and one one could do another programme perhaps , focusing on the child or the needs and rights of the child in specific , but I think I 've been looking at the almost the scariness , I suppose , of being a parent , the challenges facing parents and the whole half hour , really , has not been about the joys of parenthood , so much as the problems of parenthood ! |
| 9 | This could well be true , for most sightings of a ‘ galley ’ have been near the sites of ancient monasteries or graveyards , where coins or gold plate could be buried . |
| 10 | In one family the daughters " attended dances " regularly , but these can hardly have been like the dance-halls of the inter-war period . |
| 11 | We 've been behind the scenes of the Society , which is funded entirely from public donations . |
| 12 | Jackson must 've been under the effects of the anaesthetic after a nose job to come out with something so bad . |
| 13 | Since the 1960s government 's major preoccupation has primarily been with the practices of investment appraisal adopted by its trading organizations , principally the nationalized industries . |
| 14 | Perhaps the nearest the British have got to a building like this has been in the pages of The Eagle . |
| 15 | Not simply was he mentioned , as men may well have been in the prayers of intercession , but he was actively made present as lord of the situation . |
| 16 | The Union has been in the interests of both this country and Scotland for many years , and it remains so . |
| 17 | Although the majority of MPhils and PhDs awarded ( over 6,000 in total ) have been in the areas of science and technology there has been a growing number of registrations and conferments in the social sciences . |
| 18 | There was in the polytechnics and colleges , as there had also been in the colleges of advanced technology , some general discussion about the validity of sandwich courses as such , given the possibility that they might be a means of perpetuating outdated practices . |
| 19 | The sharing of the collector 's salary was really what appears to have been in the thoughts of Craigbarnet and his friends , for Dougalston too returned to this point in his letter to Montrose 's commissioner , telling him that Craigbarnet 's friends had given him to understand that they would support Kirkton 's re-election , ‘ with the same sellary that he now has if he would give Craigbarnett fifteen or twentie pound sterling yearly out of it ’ . |
| 20 | Although the material was systematically arranged as it was collected , the system changed very significantly at least three times , and by the time it arrived at the Institute in Nottingham , any order there had been in the files of material was lost . |
| 21 | Behind this , almost certainly , lay the new economic pressures of an expanding population which were leaving the agricultural worker worse off than he had been in the years of land surplus . |
| 22 | So relaxed now ; yet only a short while ago he had been in the depths of despair . |
| 23 | As last season illustrated , Neath were nowhere near as good as their Champion status indicated , nowhere near as good as they had been in the seasons of extraordinary success that preceded the advent of the leagues . |
| 24 | The local parish council has often been in the hands of a group leading the area into decline . |
| 25 | British air travel before the war had largely been in the hands of two companies , British Airways for European services and Imperial Airways for services further afield . |
| 26 | Whereas nuclear weaponry had effectively only been in the hands of the U.S.A. , the development of such weapons by other nations had been increasing , so at a meeting , in December 1962 , at Nassau , Prime minister Harold Macmillan and President Kennedy , hammered out an agreement whereby Britain abandoned its plans for ‘ Skybolt ’ in return for the U.S.A. ‘ Polaris ’ missile for use by British nuclear submarines . |
| 27 | It had earlier been in the hands of the Beard family for around a century . |
| 28 | For some time financial control had been in the hands of a receiver after the Leeds City company was wound up . |
| 29 | The training of the vernacular clergy had been in the hands of Arthur Dilworth , the first time that a missionary had been completely set aside for this important task . |
| 30 | The troubled 1986 ICL start-up housing the Distributed Array Processing , DAP , technology — built on the single instruction multiple data technique of massively parallel processing — has been in the hands of the receiver , Price Waterhouse , since June 16 . |