Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [been] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has been Guyana 's flag since 1966 when it became independent from Britain . |
| 2 | This has been Eric Gill 's year , and 140 of his engravings are at Sally Hunter . |
| 3 | Until we next meet over the airwaves , this has been Lynne Cramer … ‘ |
| 4 | ‘ You mean all this has been FBI work ? ’ |
| 5 | THIS has been Germany 's year . |
| 6 | This has been Canada 's flag since 1965 . |
| 7 | ‘ This has been Lola Stechkin at ZeeBeeCee , signing off . |
| 8 | ‘ This has been Lola Stechkin at ZeeBeeCee , soaping my back and signing off . |
| 9 | Another has been Dr Samuel Postlethwait of Purdue , already mentioned in Chapter 2 , and who exemplifies a carefully pre-planned and programmed teaching approach , devised by a subject-specialist academic , and taking place ( as it happens ) in a laboratory not a library . |
| 10 | This had been Sam 's first day out since the birth of Jennifer , and it seemed to all on board that the good Lord was smiling upon them and giving a sign of His blessing upon the marriage . |
| 11 | The hotel is a group of buildings surrounded by gardens and trees in a compound , and we noticed from the start a vaguely British feeling about it — we asked our guide and he told us it had been formerly the British Embassy ( presumably during the years when this had been Chiang Kai-Shek 's capital ) , and had remained in British hands until 1960 or so , I suppose it was a consulate or something . |
| 12 | This had been Jesus ' gospel ; it concerned the Father only , not the Son — for Jesus had not proclaimed himself . |
| 13 | This had been Baxter 's privilege until , one day , Mr. Owen gave this position to his rival . |
| 14 | This had been Christine 's place , once . |
| 15 | Fergus should have been standing here , thought Taliesin , and there was a pain and an aching void at the knowledge , for this had been Fergus 's quest and his covenant . |
| 16 | This had been Sir Ivor at his brilliant best , striking with one deadly burst of speed . |
| 17 | Kennan met MacArthur for lunch on 1 March ; MacArthur stated that there had previously been only one successful military occupation in history and this had been Julius Caesar 's achievement in the subjugated barbarian provinces . |
| 18 | Another had been William Temple , Butler 's necessary ally in the passing of his Act . |
| 19 | Among the most celebrated had been Nadia Comaneci , the former Olympic gymnast , who had fled Romania in November . |
| 20 | We are fortunate to have been Grant Aided by the Sports Council for a period of two years , during which time growth must be shown in all areas of our operation . |
| 21 | Equally questionable has been ASEAN 's development . |
| 22 | The most widely acclaimed of these has been John Rawls 's A Theory of Justice , which was published in 1971 and rapidly assumed the status of a contemporary classic . |
| 23 | Much energy has been devoted to trying to establish which version is more likely to have been Christopher Marlowe 's . |
| 24 | Although the rumours of the Queen 's supposed adulteries were real enough and , given the prevailing double standard in sexual matters , much more shocking than the stories of the King 's mistresses , none the less if either of them ever had a romantic love affair it is likely to have been Henry rather than Eleanor . |
| 25 | ‘ These have been Jeremy 's best sessions so far , and hopefully if his luck changes the team will not be surprised if he should get into the points . |
| 26 | The most notable representative of the latter has been Michel Foucault , who has remorselessly continued the critique of totalizing forms of history and the disavowal of a general philosophy of history in favour of strategic ‘ genealogical ’ analyses . |
| 27 | I suppose she 's thinking of Terry , she thought , and squeezed Sarah 's arm , although Believe Me If All had been Joe 's favourite rather than Terry 's . |
| 28 | All had been HBsAg positive for more than six months and had histologic features of chronic hepatitis . |
| 29 | And of the heads , perhaps not surprisingly , the most effective of all had been Shakespeare 's ; it had scythed its way through a whole astonished platoon of sepoys advancing in single file through the jungle . |
| 30 | I met Herman at the FitzGeralds ’ [ the writer Kevin FitzGerald and his wife Janet — the latter had been Herman 's producer on the occasions when he broadcast on Woman 's Hour ] , and he says that there is less of Ivy every time he sees her . |