Example sentences of "been a [noun] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he 'd had the money to choose a more experienced barrister , if the Marshal himself had been on the spot in the first place instead of that young fool student , Bacci , who fancied himself as some sort of Hollywood detective , probably have shot himself accidentally by this time … whole thing had been a mess from start to finish … |
| 2 | To use Hirschi and Gottfredson 's ( 1986 ) terminology , there seems to have been a retreat from explanations of criminality , to explanations of crime — from explaining criminal dispositions , to explaining ( or rather preventing ) criminal acts . |
| 3 | That is , there has been a shift from realist to postmodernist cinema , in which spectacle comes heavily to dominate narrative . |
| 4 | In geographical terms , there has been a progression from work on the land to factory work , and in turn to jobs in shops , offices and hospitals . |
| 5 | Like many of Nicolae Ceauşescu 's critics within the Romanian Communist Party , Borila had been an émigré from Romania during the 1930s . |