Example sentences of "been [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There has been research which suggests that moderately strong automatic stemming can be applied in specialized online reference retrieval searching . |
| 4 | Ever since they had known one another , Otto had been kindness itself to Jean-Claude . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | James has been kindness itself all day . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | On good soil he could probably plough two or three acres in a day , but on the more difficult land that had until recently been forest he would be lucky to manage half of this . |
| 10 | Guido released her and stepped away , and where there 'd been warmth there was suddenly coldness . |
| 11 | If she and Tom had been two men he would have been discretion itself , she thought . |
| 12 | Ever since the time of Jean-Jacques Rousseau there has been art whose aim has been the renewal of society , but it has had no effect beyond that of producing testimonials ( even if controversial ones ) of what we call the ‘ real ’ world , in contrast perhaps with the unreal world of art . |
| 13 | I 'd always wanted to be a comedian at school , I 've always been obsessive about comedy , and if I 'd been rubbish it would have been a bit problematic . ’ |
| 14 | high I 'm only coming out with a ten flush , pair of aces , and a pair of eights would have been mine whichever way you played it . |
| 15 | Where once there had been simplicity there was now multiplicity . |
| 16 | In theory the task should have been simplicity itself . |
| 17 | If it had n't been dope it would have been valium : what 's the difference ? |
| 18 | It could have been spinach she was refusing . |
| 19 | After all it had been Bliss who had warned him that Nadirpur was embroiled with the Pessarane Behesht , Bliss who had informed him that the real cargo was arms . |
| 20 | ‘ Could n't have been Erdle she saw , ’ replied Iris . |
| 21 | Had Trent been Miguelito he would have lain in wait in the jungle by the catamaran . |
| 22 | You 've been under-strain yourself over these last few weeks . |
| 23 | So there could have been conversation I did n't pick up — scrambled by the radio . ’ |
| 24 | Where formed by divergent plate movement they are described as rifted margins , but where the motion between two adjacent continental blocks has been transform they are called sheared margins ( but note that the term rifted margin is often applied rather loosely to passive margins of any type ) . |
| 25 | Yeah and something else might have been netball I ca n't remember , something new . |
| 26 | Ever since there has been Christmas there have been complaints that it has become over-commercialised . |