Example sentences of "[noun sg] have be a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alameda has been a navy town since the second world war . |
| 2 | The result has been a PR triumph for BP , and a commercial success for the partners . |
| 3 | The result has been a policy see-saw , with governments alternating between periods of centralisation , the better to gain control , followed by a decentralising reaction against the rigidities which are caused as a consequence . |
| 4 | The students conducted a market research campaign for suggestions about environmental improvements , and the result has been a wildlife garden and a flower and bird project . |
| 5 | It 's not the first time Barphone has been a takeover target . |
| 6 | General practice research has been a minority activity and underfunded in the past |
| 7 | The Public Enemy had been a Warner Bros film and that studio soon went on to consolidate its reputation as one specializing in contemporary themes by releasing I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang . |
| 8 | The explosive had been a two-ounce wafer of Semtex , composed of 45 per cent Penta Tetro Ether Nitrate ( or PETN ) , 45 per cent RDX and 10 per cent plasticizer . |
| 9 | Johnny Hero has been a sterling encouragement to those same bands , promoting local and alternative music every Monday night on his Downtown Radio show . |
| 10 | This small but impressive gallery has been a launch pad for many artists over the years and has built up a steady , progressive reputation under the new directorship of Tim Eastop . |
| 11 | Mind you if Frank Bough had been a Manchester beauty queen with no previous experience would he have been appointed to front the BBC 's Breakfast Time as was Debbie Greenwood ? |
| 12 | He said after the funeral that his brother 's marriage had been a shot-gun affair never consummated . |
| 13 | The marriage had been a business arrangement , nothing more . ’ |
| 14 | The cat had been a family favourite . |
| 15 | The sole conclusion I feel able to draw is that your young lady had been a child prostitute . ’ |
| 16 | Cabbages ( part of the Wilderness had been a vegetable patch ) armed themselves with woody bark ; rhubarb threw off weak elastic branches ; roses shed superfluous petals and muscled into the potato patch ; vegetables , weeds and shrubs increased their ranks or sizes while snowdrifts or perennial flowers transformed the land . |
| 17 | The call on Sanders elicited the information that the client in question had been a Herr Fedorov , who lived in a large house just north of the village . |
| 18 | Handing them over to people outside government who know their local community has been a quantum leap in the delivery of Government policies in the important areas of training and skills . |
| 19 | The Cold War has been a paradigm war , and in that conflict both powers have exhausted themselves economically , so they have had no choice but to seek a rapprochement . |
| 20 | I saw that she still wore an engagement ring , but she told me very quickly that her fiancé had been a bomber pilot and he was dead , and it was not the same man she had been engaged to when she joined up . |
| 21 | Before becoming a dress shop , the jail had been a lunatic asylum , of the Hogarthian deep-straw-and-goggling-visitors variety . |
| 22 | What on Hunter 's initiative had been a saving grace for the College on Vial 's death — the admission of veterinary students to lectures by surgeons and physicians — later became a source of complaint . |
| 23 | My wife has been a golf widow for the last 30 years . |
| 24 | Overall , the process of becoming a budget-minded organisation has been a learning curve for some of us but has to be the right way to go . ’ |
| 25 | The service has been a life line to Jeff Lockyer , he now has debts of a few hundred pounds , which compared to a couple of years ago , is an enormous weight off his mind . |
| 26 | That was in fact the private view of Harold Nicolson , although he did not allow it to be expressed in his official biography of George V. In an unpublished section of his diaries , he writes of his interview with Queen Mary on 21 March 1949 , ‘ I talked to her about the 1931 crisis and said that I was convinced the King had been a determinant influence on that occasion , ‘ Yes certainly ; he certainly was , ' |
| 27 | Burbedge has been a class winner in both the video and newsmagazine categories of the Editing for Industry awards , as well as winning awards for excellence of internal and external newspapers and certificates of merit for special publications and internal newspapers . |
| 28 | I wanted to dig him in the ribs and tell him that Mrs F was the last of twelve children in her family and her father 'd been a maintenance man on the railways . |
| 29 | The loco shed had many sentimental memories for me as my late father had been a mainline driver there many years ago before the branch line , with its four stations , marshalling sidings , loco shed and workshops closed , shortly after the closure of the two adjacent collieries . |
| 30 | Like Spurgeon he had worked his way up from humble beginnings — his father had been a Northumberland stone-mason — and like Spurgeon he had had a chapel built round him . |