Example sentences of "[pron] have been [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps if I had been more of an expert the differences would have been more apparent , but experts always tend to obscure the obvious . |
| 2 | This was the beginning of her determination to learn sign language , which has been more of a boost to the deaf community over the years than any other gesture . |
| 3 | It would be unthinkable for you to consider David here , who has been more of a son than you ever deserved … the stepson who stayed by your side when your own son deserted you ; and who even forgave you when his beloved mother died because of your neglect . ’ |
| 4 | well they were having a biology lesson , she 'd been all about these , they 'd been this biology |
| 5 | If she 'd been more of a woman , he believed , she would have meekly accepted his word and left it at that . |
| 6 | She stood back , still holding his hands and saw tears appear in the eyes of the old man who had been more of a Father to her than her own Father . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , she 's been that in her time too . ’ |
| 8 | We 've been all through that we 've got the salaries re-graded and we do n't pay a bad wage now |
| 9 | ‘ There has been enough of me in your life , child ! ’ |
| 10 | There has been less of an incentive for capital developments in France and more emphasis on other , more socially desirable policies . |
| 11 | Since then there has been less of a general shortage of labour , but rather a shortfall in skilled , rather than unskilled labour . |
| 12 | There has been some of the same controversy over the role of the mental handicap hospitals as over the psychiatric hospitals , but on the whole the issue is clearer : they ought to be replaced by smaller units , ranging from hostels and homes to specialist hospital units able to provide intensive nursing for the severely handicapped minority . |
| 13 | He assumed the visit must be one of Isobel 's whims , and there had been many of those . |
| 14 | Frank confirmed that as a boy visiting relatives in the region there had been many of the old ships still about , so Brian and I decided we 'd go there , then sail down the US coast to the Caribbean , through the Panama Canal and head west to the Revillagigedo Islands which Brian had decided were his . |
| 15 | There had been some among their ‘ class opponents ’ , Ligachev went on , who had been praising perestroika , hoping it represented a departure from socialism in favour of a market economy , ideological pluralism and Western-style democracy . |
| 16 | A group collecting around the Birmingham solicitor William Bedford invoked the old legal process of ‘ appeal of murder ’ , generally regarded as obsolete ( though there had been several in the eighteenth century ) . |
| 17 | I ask you when when you were younger did you would there have been many of the folk in the place spoke Gaelic or was it dying out then or |
| 18 | I mean , there have been some in the area , which have n't been that flats as well . |
| 19 | For this reason , mistakes in the LBO boom have caused more fuss than mistakes in the merger boom of the 1960s , even though — so far at least — there have been fewer of them . |
| 20 | He reacts strongly to any suggestion — and there have been several over recent months — that his emotional ups and downs are part of a manic-depressive syndrome . |
| 21 | Most of the philosophy of the transcendent is from the East , but there have been those in the . |
| 22 | There have been those in positions of authority who have expressed doubt about the possibilities of this normativist project . |
| 23 | He had left her and gone to live with an upper-class woman , had soared to the opposite end of the scale from Josie , whose attraction for him had been that of a splenetic victim from the lower depths of the goyim : but Josie had refused a divorce and the ordeal had dragged on . |
| 24 | But they had been few in number . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It has been more of a blessing than a curse . |
| 27 | When the boy had first come to the house he 'd been more of a child and had naturally been treated as a child . |
| 28 | This door was closed too carefully , perhaps too stealthily , for it to have been any of Haverford 's doing . |
| 29 | Teachers who claim to have been highly involved also claim to have used a wider variety of methods and feel more competent to conduct the review , believing it to have been more of a whole-school effort , more thorough and more useful in producing proposals for change . |
| 30 | Medical men had perforce to be botanists , and often gardeners as well , and in time medical knowledge came to be the perquisite of the European religious orders , as it had been that of the priests in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs . |