Example sentences of "been [art] [noun pl] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had two large rooms , and a kitchen and bathroom constructed from what had been a warren of smaller domestic offices ; her own front door had once been the tradesmen 's entrance . |
| 2 | Well er to me it does n't quite ring true , it 's always been the boys ' ploughing match and it always will be as far as I 'm concerned but I think this happened at the time post war I ca n't say exactly which year , when the date was changed from easter time to August . |
| 3 | By combining traditional craftsmanship with state of the art electronics , Yamaha 's APX range of electro-acoustic guitars has long been the professionals ' choice for performing and recording alike . |
| 4 | The show that underlined changing days was the Oxford review , Beyond The Fringe , with its mild demolition job on national pretensions which had been the Conservatives ' stock-in-trade since 1951 . |
| 5 | Parents had , inevitably in a Direct Grant school , always been closely involved since they were , numerically , the biggest source of income for new building projects , which could not be financed from fees ; but the only formal organization had been the Ladies ' Committee , in whose capable hands the Autumn Fairs and Scandinavian Evenings had prospered over the years . |
| 6 | The commercial procedure of dégorgement crept in in gradual steps sometime in the latter part of the eighteenth century , or soon after , and might have been the producers ' response to an increasing number of complaints about their clouded wines . |
| 7 | Their concern was not that others might come here one day and identify the place as having been the kidnappers ' hideout ; rather , that those examiners would never discover who the kidnappers had been . |
| 8 | Son of Gifford Tate , the painter , he had been the Garlands ' doctor since , at his father 's death , he had returned to Falmouth and set up practice in the family house . |
| 9 | It had long been the nuns ' ambition that Eve Malone be thought of as a lady . |
| 10 | The directive was aimed at Sinn Fein and the UDA but it could not have been the legislators ' intention that the broadcasting authority should be impartial between the terrorists and the terrorised . |
| 11 | French doors led into a room that had once been the guests ' lounge , but was now converted into the dining-room . |
| 12 | In all the intervening years Chant had wondered if he had attempted a second summoning alone , and been the voiders ' victim . |
| 13 | However , ‘ skilled hands ’ were the operative words , and because most amateurs found secateurs easier to handle and use , whether they were good , clean , bad , or indifferent in the cut , secateurs — often of the most inexpensive and dubious quality — have always been the amateurs ' cutting tool . |
| 14 | They progressed along dark stone corridors , past various pantries and flights of steps , arriving eventually in what later turned out to have been the servants ' hall and was now superficially , and partially , converted for modern living . |
| 15 | The islands had always been a smugglers ' paradise , and had proved a perfect place to stockpile cocaine before running it across the narrow Straits of Florida to the waiting American markets . |
| 16 | By the sound of it , World War III was breaking out behind her and after the race there had been a stewards ' inquiry . |
| 17 | It 's always been a workers ' day and I hope it will remain so . |
| 18 | Finally , we thought it might have been a lovers ' quarrel , but now I 'm not sure … " |
| 19 | All over the Western world there were liberation movements and alternative life-styles — there had never been a kids ' crusade like it — and Hairy Back would n't let her stay out after eleven . |
| 20 | Since Columbus first called , almost 500 years ago , Las Palmas de Gran Canaria has always been a sailors ' town . |
| 21 | Milton Goldman had been an actors ' agent for nearly 40 years . |
| 22 | Ferranti has had its problems in the past so has rarely been an investors ' favourite . |