Example sentences of "been a [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Monica had been a close friend of Ricardo and Jose Weibel . |
| 2 | It contained a note from Dermot Kinane , an ex-jockey who had been a close friend of the family in Ireland . |
| 3 | Those who did live there all knew Father McGiff and they were able to inform the ignorant that he had been a close friend of the Rabbi ever since the Jews had arrived in the city . |
| 4 | He accepted my apologies for my appearance and quickly put me at ease , saying he had been a close friend of my father and was delighted to meet his son . |
| 5 | My hon. Friend has been a close supporter of the industry for many years and has taken a close interest in its activities . |
| 6 | Anyone who thought before 1990 that Richard Perle , Ronald Reagan 's ultra-hawkish arms-control man , and Anne Lewis , a political consultant who has been a close ally of Jesse Jackson , would agree on policy towards Iraq would have been dismissed as mad : but they did . |
| 7 | HAVING BEEN a close follower of The Lone Groover and loon pant ads in the NME of the '70s , I had formed a lasting impression of The World 's Greatest Rock Weekly as an impenetrable fortress of wit , intellect and sneering clever-gits . |
| 8 | There was a widely held view amongst sentencers at the time that these powers were too limited ; while the furtherance of types of punishment not necessitating the deprival of liberty had been a perennial cause of penal reformers . |
| 9 | Most of this is in the northwest where there has been a long history of land-use , involving both degradation and successful reclamation . |
| 10 | There has been a long tradition of professional marketing activities by a wide spectrum of non-profit making organisations including political parties , the Health Education Council with its anti-smoking campaign , the Right to Read programme , Oxfam , Christian Aid and the Salvation Army . |
| 11 | In Devon and Cornwall indeed there seems to have been a long tradition of piratical and privateering activity in addition to legitimate trade , which may well have laid the foundation for the activities of seamen from this part of the country in the Elizabethan age ( 63 , pp.159–60 ) . |
| 12 | It 's been a long day of trundling past an infinity of fir trees , and photographer Ridgers has hardly survived it . |
| 13 | Mr Foster said : ‘ There has been a long period of uncertainty which always causes problems . |
| 14 | Well what this has involved me in has been a long study of a single school . |
| 15 | Well what this has involved me in has been a long study of a single school . |
| 16 | There had been a long list of such casualties in Libby 's life , this was just another . |
| 17 | There has been a radical reappraisal of the Pinot Meunier in the last ten years and growers and houses alike are nowadays more willing to admit the commercial worth of this grape , a variety which was once conspicuous by its absence from various famous firms ' promotional pamphlets . |
| 18 | During the 1980s , there has been a radical restructuring of the electrical engineering industries . |
| 19 | Since 1960 , there has been a substantial expansion of economics literature in the field . |
| 20 | Even if it is likely that a Labour administration would have failed in the round to solve Britain 's fundamental problems , there is little doubt that at a minimum there would have been a substantial redistribution of income and some attempt to reform the City , regulate public utilities more strongly and determinedly tackle the homelessness problem . |
| 21 | In addition , it is obvious that it can not be relied on until there has been a substantial amount of trading between the same parties . |
| 22 | Just picking up on Professor Lock 's point earlier on about changes in the nineteen eighties or since the nineteen eighties , erm as in my statement I have suggested that there has been a substantial loss of nature conservation interest and wild life habitats both in this county and throughout the country . |
| 23 | By early 1940 there had been a substantial drift-back of evacuees to the cities : something like 80% had returned . |
| 24 | There appears to have been a substantial number of ‘ rank and file ’ supporters scattered across the whole of both Galilee and Judaea . |
| 25 | He could n't have come in earlier through the front door because there would have been a substantial risk of either Dr Darnell or Wetherby himself seeing him . |
| 26 | If there has been a prolonged spell of dry weather , leaks and damp are more difficult to detect and you should be doubly suspicious of stains , water marks and white crystals if you see them . |
| 27 | Our intention is to demonstrate that work organization has been a central strand of each of the otherwise contrasting change strategies ; namely , the evolutionary development of Pilkingtons , the total process perspective of RX , and Employee Involvement with Ford . |
| 28 | Most of the modernized sector is on industrial estates because industrial land development , particularly by what is now English Estates North , has been a central part of state efforts at modernization since the Special Areas measures of the 1930s . |
| 29 | The relationship between society and the state has been a central concern of western political and social thought for the last four hundred years , one crucially bound up with attempts to understand and evaluate the character of new social , political , economic and intellectual forms associated with the development of a capitalist world economy . |
| 30 | The relationship between syntactic and semantic processing has been a central concern of psycholinguistics for the last two decades . |