Example sentences of "[been] [art] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | That had always been the plan and was not some presbyterian purge on behalf of the coaches Douglas Morgan and John Jeffrey in retribution for Scotland 's showing in the tournament , where , for the second successive week , they failed to qualify from their pool for the main competition and suffered a heavy defeat in the plate . |
| 2 | The shop bell had tinkled frequently for the past hour , most of the customers having been the ha'penny and penny ones , some of whom were now standing outside at the shop window oohing and aahing at the Christmas goodies displayed there , all entwined with coloured streamers and illuminated by the two gas lamps attached to the side wall of the shop and plopping inside their pretty pink glass globes , while casting a rosy light overall , even over the small faces pressed against the window . |
| 3 | The Roman residence of the pope from the time of the Emperor Constantine had always been the Lateran and before Innocent 's time there was only a temporary residence at St Peter 's . |
| 4 | It was going to be used as a gardening shed for tomatoes but for me it has been the history and finding out about its past that has been the fun . |
| 5 | The principal hunting weapon may have been the bow and arrow ; arrows , as with all tools , are rare in early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries ; they are often viewed as weapons of warfare but constitute the most obvious hunting weapon amongst the range of artefacts and their rarity in cemeteries may only be a reflection of their importance to the community . |
| 6 | A major problem has been the complexity and variability of political objectives discussed earlier . |
| 7 | With the ending of the BBC television 's long-running sailing soap opera , ‘ Howards ' Way ’ ( sighs of relief all round : the last few have been hardly a glowing advertisement for boating or boating business ) comes the announcement that Sadler International are to sell off the moulds and rights to build Barracuda , the prototype of which has been the opening and closing credits ' star of the series . |
| 8 | The closest points of contact between the two elements have been the Treasury and the Bank of England . |
| 9 | One of the major areas of historical research in recent years involving scholars from several countries has been the rise and decline of slavery in the Americas and its impact on the growth of the industrial societies bordering the north Atlantic . |
| 10 | I was directed to the house that had formerly been the inn and was admitted for an overnight stay with supper , bed and breakfast . |
| 11 | This , unfortunately , had not always been the case and a few farmers complained about 12 and 24 hours notice for ATB courses . |
| 12 | That has always been the case and remains so , and it is true of the Bill . |
| 13 | During the eighteenth century diplomats were less irregularly paid than had hitherto been the case and there can be seen the first efforts , though very limited and ineffective ones , to provide them with some systematic professional training . |
| 14 | So rapid had been the settlement and subsequent expansion that by the outbreak of the first world war few suitable sites remained to attract new industry . |
| 15 | The great Continental stations , Paris , Stuttgart , Vienna , Budapest , Bucharest , Constantinople , have been the beginning and ending and en route stopping-places in the wealth of literature inspired by that acme of railway luxury , the Orient Express , the train on which James Bond once shot a man for ordering red wine with his fish . |
| 16 | It 's been the cradle and help of many actors , directors and playwrights . |
| 17 | The problem has been the cost and complexity of point-of-sale systems that can run to around £3,000 or £4,000 he says . |
| 18 | The major sectors witnessing recovery have been the shipping and the natural resources sectors . |
| 19 | A key goal in LTQ training has been the development and dissemination of a common language to articulate company goals and a shared approach to routine problem-solving and personal interaction within the company . |
| 20 | The general theme for all the festivals has been the country and the city . |
| 21 | EVER since Neil Adams retired , Densign White has been the spokesman and leader of the British men 's judo squad . |
| 22 | He wanted to make sure he knew who 'd been the problem and would n't let me off the hook . |
| 23 | ‘ If it had been the Queen and her corgis waiting , I would n't have picked them up . |
| 24 | It is by no means clear that the Church and Queen position of 1710 – 14 was any more popular in the nation at large than had been the Church and King position of either 1660 – 2 or 1681 – 5 . |
| 25 | He had once been the leader and she had been the unquestioning follower , but all that had changed now . |
| 26 | The biggest task had been the design and obtaining of the new Display Stand on show , at the rear of the Conference Hall . |
| 27 | But Lévi-Strauss rather objects to the ethnocentrism of Sartre 's argument , for it means that ‘ man ’ , the constituents of whom should have been the result and product of Sartre 's anthropology , is defined in advance in terms of the dialectic as historical humanity , with history effectively restricted to societies of the West . |
| 28 | It was only we Palace Roadites , and a few more , for Lots Road Power Station had been the target and they had not missed . |
| 29 | Even more valuable has been the friendship and help she found while attending a young women 's support group . |
| 30 | A key element in these processes of subjugation and domination has been the classifying and defining of racial and sexual difference , through the use of the photographic anthropological gaze ( referenced most recently in the Benetton advertising campaigns ) , the photograph within these discourses is posited as a document of empirical truth . |