Example sentences of "been [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus in London at different times there have been groups which have called themselves the Society of Twelve , the Seven and Five , and One/Four . |
| 2 | But as soon as I begin to be nice to him , a sort of self-satisfaction seems to creep into his voice and his manner ( very discreet , he 's been humility itself all day , no reproach about last night , of course ) and I begin to want to goad and slap him again . |
| 3 | Given our general theme , that it has been attitudes which determine methods , it is perhaps not surprising for the reader to discover that the amount of research on the effects of the systems of signing is very small indeed . |
| 4 | Time and again it has been cinema which has pushed forward the bounds of public acceptability of controversial images and ideas , to be followed by television rather slowly . |
| 5 | It had been Marcus who turned up at the Evans house on Saturday afternoon when Pascoe was there . |
| 6 | It had also been Marcus who had phoned Connon with the news of Arthur 's visit to the police station . |
| 7 | There had in the past been clergymen who had elaborated the written account in the manner of solo violinists , composing their own cadenzas , and their elaborations had found their way into the written account . |
| 8 | There 's also a general view in the community that community care itself is not necessarily really working very well , there 's some fears about it , some uncertainties and a member did mention , it may have been Jim you know or somebody mentioned about the seven hours domiciliary , from my experience as a councillor I am not sure that simply because that figure exists that that means that that is satisfying the need of those people and in any case the sort of people who need to go into residential care , who can no longer be maintained in their home , with whatever help we give them or with whatever help their family have to give them they 're not necessarily the sort of people who we 're talking about need to go in a home . |
| 9 | There has been research which suggests that moderately strong automatic stemming can be applied in specialized online reference retrieval searching . |
| 10 | There must also have been readers who were led to reflect on Othello 's self-righteous murder of Desdemona , and to reflect that Shakespeare 's play expresses a view of mixed marriages which is both encouraging and discouraging . |
| 11 | ‘ When we heard about poor Alain Gebrec being dead , I had a sudden vision of Dora looking furiously angry … you know how she sometimes glares at Dieter … and I thought for a moment … supposing it had been Dieter who 'd been killed … it might have been Dora who had … oh , I know it 's dreadful of me to think these things , but she hates him so much . ’ |
| 12 | It had been Conneau who , in fact , had made possible the famous escape in 1846 by maintaining the pretence of his patient 's illness on the appointed day , thereby preventing the prison governor from making his daily visit . |
| 13 | Her many ‘ seeings ’ of Christ and the Holy Family may have been delusions which she actually lived through , as Ruskin lived through his conflicts with the Devil , or they may have been deliberately induced auto-hypnosis deriving from the Revelations of St Bridget , to whom Margery had a special devotion . |
| 14 | In the end , it had been Roberts who had spoken . |
| 15 | Yet it had been Eleanor who had started this war of words ; Eleanor who had tried to interfere in something that should have been none of her business . |
| 16 | Had we been animals we would have hunted co-operatively , bred regularly and protected one another rigorously . |
| 17 | Ever since they had known one another , Otto had been kindness itself to Jean-Claude . |
| 18 | She has always been kindness itself to me , but I have a feeling in my bones that she would not regard me as a wholly reliable supporter . |
| 19 | James has been kindness itself all day . |
| 20 | The ‘ man from the ministry ’ who had taken her statement about the crash and their escape had been kindness itself , but the effects had begun to creep up on her . |
| 21 | When he 'd appeared with her breakfast Penry Vaughan had been reasonably friendly — and in the middle of the night he 'd been kindness itself after her nightmare . |
| 22 | Therefore Carol 's daughter is not Julie , whilst Donna was taken to see Mary Poppins , so it must have been Linda who went with Carol to see Jungle Book . |
| 23 | It could have been Darwin himself who introduced Dr Benjamin Bynoe , the Beagle 's surgeon , to Gould . |
| 24 | Since also the percentage of assessments below £3 was much the same in Sussex as in Norfolk and Berkshire , a good many farm workers there might have been cottagers who had their own plots of land . |
| 25 | They had once been commuters themselves but they had waited so long for trains they had taken to living permanently in the tunnels , skulking in the darkness by day and emerging late at night to devour unwary travellers . |
| 26 | Yes , it could still have been Tutilo who finished what Jerome had begun . ’ |
| 27 | It had been DeVore who had befriended him . |
| 28 | Unfortunately there have been presenters who became better known for hitting the headlines than their ability to turn washing up bottles into handy household objects . |
| 29 | And there have been days I 'd have liked her at home when I had a headache or one of the nuns had roared at me at school . |
| 30 | These had perhaps once been outhouses which had long ago fallen down . |