Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [verb] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither husband nor daughter had been any help . |
| 2 | Churchill , Eden , Macmillan , and Home had been political grandees ; all emerged through the ‘ magic circle , and not as a result of election by MPs . |
| 3 | Like the other playwrights whose response to Thatcherism and brutality has been some hand-wringing of their own , Barker is too infatuated by his heroine 's strength to humanise her withe vulnerability and too in awe of her for a passionate or coolly detached opposition . |
| 4 | The worlds of industry and commerce , accountancy and finance , advertising and government have been major recruiters of graduates from the department for many years . |
| 5 | The two related factors that have worked against an integration of education and training have been traditional recruitment into the professions via Oxbridge , and the view that the summum bonum of English education is A levels . |
| 6 | She should have known she was ill , got a doctor to see her earlier , not waited until the bronchitis had turned to pneumonia , so that none of their injections and treatment had been any good . |
| 7 | Injuries and fitness have been topical issues for some time now . |