Example sentences of "[been] a [noun sg] of [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly these are still working groups , usually of type ( ii ) , with a manifesto , a periodical and exhibitions , but there has also been a change of some kind in their social relations , and this can best be understood by the second kind of analysis , of the proposed and actual relations with all those beyond the group . |
| 2 | Although there has been a settlement of some sort at North Shields since the Middle Ages , the modern town is a product of the addition of industrial capitalism to mercantile capitalism . |
| 3 | I 've never been a part of any plot ! |
| 4 | There had in fact only been one occasion during those last years that Lewis could remember and he was sure Adam had only gone because there had been a promise of some shooting . |
| 5 | I have been a supporter of this club since before the war , so I know what I am talking about . |
| 6 | It also brings out further one character 's idée fixe ( stonework ) , and develops the theme of racial tension/personal harmony which has been a feature of this relationship in the story for some time . |
| 7 | He has been a member of that Committee since it was re-established in 1991 . |
| 8 | To be eligible to attend a meeting of the General Committee referred to in paragraphs ( e ) or ( h ) , a person must have been a member of this Constituency Labour Party for at least twelve months prior to the date of the relevant meeting and have attended at least one previous meeting of the General Committee during the same period . |
| 9 | Frank who had a been a member of this society for more than twenty six years . |
| 10 | In the same year he joined British Gas Southern as a driver in the transport section he has now nearly completed thirty four years ' service with British Gas and has been a member of this trade union for nearly thirty four years . |
| 11 | I think the bottom line of this issue , frankly , is that the U S er attorney the governmental er investigating authorities in this matter have had this information at their disposal for several years now , had there been any question of G Tec 's behaviour er we would certainly be the subject of something that we are not right now , and that the bottom line is we have been assured from the outset that G Tec has not been a subject of this investigation , that G Tec 's behaviour has been above reproach , and as far as his comments go we we do n't really know what context to put them in . |
| 12 | So the man worth just under £2 might well have been a person of some consequence in the community . |
| 13 | Now , I do n't think we know what was the exact Sterling equivalent of the fall in our reserves during the last financial year , but it can only have been a minority of that total of £1and1/2 ; billion of public expenditure which was met neither by the product of taxation nor by borrowing from the public . |
| 14 | In Scotland , Co-ordinated Land & estates ( CLE ) is usually associated with developments such as Clydebank Business Park but in fact property audits have been a metier of this company for the past decade . |
| 15 | There must have been a lot of that sort of thing , when you come to think about it : tolerating ideological undesirables as long as it suited your own book — not that National Socialism had much ideology beyond being first at the trough . |
| 16 | There 's been a lot of that sort of thing in the town lately , and the police … ’ |
| 17 | There has been a lot of this kind of partnership in recent years and there is no doubt that there is some mutual benefit but the benefits are unrelated for each party — the college gets a resource that it can use , the donor a warm sense of public spirit , a tax deduction or some publicity . |
| 18 | The latter point has been a cause of some concern because , in the 1980s , black kids continue to involve themselves in sport with a fervour which alarms many , fearful that blacks ' achievements can only reinforce traditional stereotyped images about blacks being adept at physical pursuits , but inept at intellectual ones . |
| 19 | The link between badgers and tuberculosis in cattle has been a source of much conflict between farmers and badger protection groups . |
| 20 | Chimaeras have always been a source of some horror . |
| 21 | But revenge was not the whole motive : without it , the joke might have been cheaper , less elaborate , of a different kind — but there would probably have been a joke of some kind . |
| 22 | When God blessed them , then they shared their blessing with others ; Paul had been a recipient of that sharing . |
| 23 | The whole question of the ideal size for a public library authority has been a matter of some controversy in Britain since the publication of the McColvin report in 1943 . |
| 24 | The nature of that development , however , has been a matter of some dispute . |
| 25 | The extent to which such an understanding is justified has been a matter of some debate , not only at the local level , but in terms of national politics , and even politics within the EC . |
| 26 | Whether to reclaim or reject this term has been a matter of some debate in Black communities . ) |
| 27 | Hugh Morris 's future has inevitably been a matter of some debate . |
| 28 | Calpers , with $1.5 billion invested in Japan , fears it has been a victim of this practice , along with other American pension funds . |
| 29 | Lorraine , whose husband Mike is serving a ten-year sentence , has also been a victim of this sort of social ignorance . |
| 30 | Before this speech he had carried Neville Chamberlain with him in such rejection , but a week later , when there had already been a period of some pressure against the pound in the foreign exchange markets , Chamberlain thought that events would ‘ beat down Baldwin 's native instinct against coalition ’ . ’ |