Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] been [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an islander I can see something of both points of view , and I have been aware of a sense of embarrassment in some of my Faroese friends that the outside world should think of them as ‘ barbarians ’ . |
| 2 | I 've had a long life and many blessings and you 've been one of the best . |
| 3 | He assumed the visit must be one of Isobel 's whims , and there had been many of those . |
| 4 | It was their ninth year together , and they had been top of the bill at the Palladium in the West End six years running . |
| 5 | Quantitatively , they are by no means negligible : the 1982 census indicated some 402,000 people originated from the departements and territoires d'outre-mer ( of whom two-thirds were from the Caribbean ) and they have been one of the fastest-growing migrant groups , escaping the immigration controls on foreign nationals imposed during the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 6 | Barbara had been standing very close to him , and he had been conscious of the nearness of her left breast and the faint smell of perfume mixed not unpleasantly with sweat . |
| 7 | Dino had broken down , and it had been one of the best races of the whole season , but then maybe the driver was prejudiced , she told herself sourly . |
| 8 | Recently Thresher has also been involved in the development of a national vocational qualification at levels 1–4 through the retail Certificate and it has been one of the first of three British companies to offer an opportunity for staff to obtain NVQ recognition through all stages . |
| 9 | The people have been most warm and welcoming and it has been one of the most enjoyable times in my ministry . ’ |
| 10 | The people have been most warm and welcoming and it has been one of the most enjoyable times in my ministry . ’ |
| 11 | I do n't know exactly how long , but I 've been aware of it for the last eighteen months . |
| 12 | Since its arrival in the eighteenth century , this is a literary mode which has recurrently been pronounced dead but which has been capable of renewal , and now Ackroyd has given a further turn to the wheel . |
| 13 | But she had been fond of Moira , and guessed how much anguish the rift in the family must have caused her . |
| 14 | He had kept out of her way while she 'd been interviewing but she had been aware of where he was all the time . |
| 15 | No but she 's been critical of lots of other people . |
| 16 | He has another story that I liked and inevitably it concerned Alex Higgins , that brilliant player who has wasted his talent so often , but who has been one of the greatest stars and the source of endless tales . |
| 17 | in its first six months the agency has handled half a million cases , but there 've been hundreds of complaints about the way it operates . |
| 18 | In recent years the Employment Department and the Department of Trade and Industry have been responsible for appropriate interventions but they have been more of a fire fighting nature than a sustained development of policy and role — which in any case , has not been the way government departments have tended to behave since they are organised to implement government policy in the immediate rather than long term . |
| 19 | He does not greatly care for the dark purplish bathroom suite ( ‘ Damson ’ , the estate agent 's brochure had called the shade ) but it had been one of the things that attracted Marjorie when they bought the house two years ago — the bathroom , with its kidney-shaped handbasin and goldplated taps and sunken bath and streamlined loo and bidet . |