Example sentences of "[adv] been [noun] of [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it had just been part of Isabelle 's patient determination to make Sabine as bilingual as possible . |
| 2 | Australian Chardonnay has become so popular they have been suffering shortages , but there has always been loads of Semillon available . |
| 3 | But he bore no malice , and on the way back to the hotel gave me quite a run-down on his cousin Ena , who he said had once been Queen of Spain . |
| 4 | There had also been talk of Wishart and Minton visiting America which , like Oscar Wilde , they hoped to take by storm . |
| 5 | She has also been presenter of BBC Radio 4 's Money Box . |
| 6 | She has also been presenter of BBC Radio 4 's Money Box . |
| 7 | A substantial number of these students have either been speakers of RP or had accents only slightly different from it , and their usual reaction to being told to use for the vowel at the end of ‘ easy ’ , ‘ busy ’ has been one of puzzlement and frustration ; like them , I can not equate this vowel with the vowel of ‘ bit ’ . |
| 8 | Unix System Laboratories , which has never officially been part of X/Open though it 's had a lot of informal dealings with it , is also expected to take advantage of the new technical membership and sign up . |
| 9 | They met at a café near the opera , and Arnoux urged his political chief Albert Sarraut to meet this remarkable young man ( Sarraut had previously been Governor-General of Indo-China ) . |
| 10 | Sinan ( Emir Hasan ) , who appears to have served continuously from 959/1552 to Shawwal 964/August 1557 and who had previously been kadi of Aleppo : It is worth noting that the kadiliks in the list are divided into two distinct grades — though if Hezarfen is right , they do not seem to correspond , at least in the way one would expect , to " 300- and 500-akce " kadiliks — and it is no$ impossible that the order as given above represents the order of precedence , with Istanbul at the top and Baghdad at the bottom . |
| 11 | Never been south of Nottingham , half the folks round here . ’ |
| 12 | Anyone 'd think you 'd never been south of Harwich . |