Example sentences of "been [art] [noun sg] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Least successful so far in winning customers has been the Eucom joint venture between France Telecom and the Deutsche Bundespost Telekom , but even they may well be welcomed as WorldPartners by AT&T , despite the heavy whiff of state bureaucracy that hangs over both of them . |
| 2 | I will be next week , but up to now I 've been the Deputy Managing Director . |
| 3 | Semenov had at one time been the Deputy Foreign Minister . |
| 4 | More significant has been the comeback this season of guide Ivano Ghirardini . |
| 5 | In previous years the competition cakes had been auctioned off to benefit the Belltower Restoration Fund — and that had been the intention this year , too — but there would be no bidders , now . |
| 6 | Mr Fittipaldi , who has twice been the Formula One champion , held off Mr Luyendyk to score his second Indy-500 victory . |
| 7 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 8 | Could it have been the age old story of having more children to keep you when you get old ? |
| 9 | The worst seemed to be over : by the end of the Summer Term in 1889 , numbers had risen to 89 , and Pemberton was pleased to report that " there has been no caning this term " . |
| 10 | But there was no problem and there has been no reaction this morning . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ There seems to have been a fad 25 years ago where many young schoolgirls used compasses or needles with Indian ink to scrawl on their arms , ’ Dr McKenna said . |
| 12 | It 's been a life long problem . |
| 13 | We 've seen cases where this has been a life long ambition , its tragic . |
| 14 | If it proves to have been a mistake this entrepreneur himself will be under market pressure to abandon this line of production . |
| 15 | I hope these problems wo n't discourage your company from continuing to run the service , which I hope has been a success this year . |
| 16 | There may also have been a second such experience immediately prior to the Battle of Milvian Bridge , at which Constantine defeated his rival for the imperial throne . |
| 17 | BP and its partners , who have been licensed by the Government to drill for oil in the area , have consulted closely with the Trust and have ruled out the easiest and cheapest development option , which would have been a ten-acre onshore site at Studland . |
| 18 | In the outgoing government he had been a Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Communications and Institutional Reform . |
| 19 | Here there had been a marriage three days before , and the bride had just been brought to her new house that morning . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , sir , ’ I said , laughing also , ‘ it would have been a must curious alternative . ’ |
| 21 | But the Leeds manager is almost certainly on the point of making a move — and the priority is the right-back position that has been a problem all season because of the absence of Mel Sterland . |
| 22 | But the Leeds manager is almost certainly on the point of making a move and the priority is the right-back position that has been a problem all season because of Mel Sterland 's absence . |
| 23 | Self-belief has been a problem this season and has not been helped by narrow defeats against Wasps ( 11–7 ) , Saracens ( 13–12 ) and London Irish ( 12–9 ) and a 9–9 draw with Rugby . |
| 24 | Been a bit better afternoon . |
| 25 | He had always been a bit that way had Rufus , manifestly to be seen to be doing all right for himself , successful , forging ahead , accompanied by the best-looking girl possible . |
| 26 | He says that if there had been a bit less water in the river the wave would have been bigger . |
| 27 | But there 's still , we still I mean er er you perhaps need to talk to Rob to see what he wants his input , it 's always been a bit airy fairy and there , there are sheets ! the choice is not the same but they should be aware of some of the implications if they choose to go down such and such a road . |
| 28 | It rained for the first time since we arrived in Sian today ; There has been a drought all winter , and the townsfolk have been out into the countryside to help water the crops . |
| 29 | There should have been a Government white paper to properly calculate the defence needs of the country . |
| 30 | If there had been a moon that night , the clouds had been keeping it hidden . |