Example sentences of "been a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clairmonte was a popular choice for the title first won by John Carl Grimek , America 's ‘ Monarch of Muscledom ’ back in 1948 , but his victory had been a close run thing . |
| 2 | There has always been a close correlation between the status of older people , and their personal achievement . |
| 3 | It could have been a close call . ’ |
| 4 | But it had been a close call . |
| 5 | There was only a year between their ages and there had always been a close bond between them . |
| 6 | There has been a close bond between us all her life . |
| 7 | In some cases there has been a close relationship between the strength of localism and the tendency towards authoritarian government . |
| 8 | Monica had been a close friend of Ricardo and Jose Weibel . |
| 9 | Billy had been a close friend for over a year now and they had had some good times together . |
| 10 | It contained a note from Dermot Kinane , an ex-jockey who had been a close friend of the family in Ireland . |
| 11 | I can not claim to have been a close friend , but I had occasional encounters with him and , as with most people , it would be more accurate to describe them as occasional brushes . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He had also been a close friend and political ally of Keating for more than 20 years , and had been influential in engineering Keating 's successful bid for the leadership in December 1991 [ see pp. 38675-76 ] . |
| 15 | A lieutenant-colonel , who had evidently been a close friend in his class at St. Cyr , greeting the new C.O. had addressed him as tu , only to receive a shrivelling rebuff : ‘ Colonel , I must request you to keep your distance . |
| 16 | My hon. Friend has been a close supporter of the industry for many years and has taken a close interest in its activities . |
| 17 | Lonrho 's chief executive , Mr Tiny Rowland , had once been a close business associate of Mr Mohamed Al Fayed , and the sulphurous mood at Lonrho partly reflected a falling out of old sparring partners . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | We have always been a close family although there are 12,000 miles between us . |
| 20 | They had always been a close family and that night they had all ended up in tears after a lengthy talk with their family GP who had come to the house to talk to them about Jennifer 's diagnosis . |
| 21 | It had been a close thing . |
| 22 | The White Welsh today has black points , very like the White Park ; this is not surprising as there has been a close connection between the two and White Park bulls have quite often been used on Welsh cows . |
| 23 | There has been a close connection between opera and poetry over the years ; given the interchange of thinking between the two subjects . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I also made a documentary about the U-boat campaign which in two world wars had nearly brought us to our knees ; and I have always regretted that after the last war , when we sank so many of them in deep water , we did not keep one as a trophy and bring it up the Thames into the heart of London : it would have been a perennial attraction for every schoolboy in the country . |
| 26 | As lack of resources has been a perennial problem since the beginning the boost given to the financial status of the BDA by the patronage of The Princess of Wales has been of incalculable value . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Well , perhaps there had been a second bank-book , after all ? |
| 29 | For us this has been a second chance , our only chance , to enjoy a wedding with all the luxuries and trimmings , and all our family around us . |
| 30 | There should have been a second woman here to receive her honourary degree — Aung San Suu Kyi — founder of the fledgling Burmese democracy movement . |