Example sentences of "been a [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spoke to a motor cycle messenger who had once been a roadie for King Crimson . |
| 2 | For her it had been a night of mystery and of magic , and he had reduced it to ‘ unacceptable behaviour ’ . |
| 3 | For a long time there had been a struggle for supremacy between the established church , the Quakers , the Catholics and the Congregationalists . |
| 4 | Every game between the teams since has been a struggle for superiority and status with Dundee in the role of the local aristocrat and St Johnstone the perennial grousebeater . |
| 5 | The history of the Players ' Union has only intermittently been a struggle against wage and transfer controls . |
| 6 | It had been a decade of bloodshed and confusion : English bloodshed and Scottish confusion . |
| 7 | There had been a decade of consultation and as recently as 1986 an Education Act had required local authorities to devise policy documentation in relation to the curriculum and its delivery . |
| 8 | The 1980s have been a decade of poverty for the poorly paid , with almost two out of every five full-time workers in Britain — nearly six million in all — now earning wages below the decency threshold set by the Council of Europe , the Low Pay unit says ( writes Larry Elliott ) . |
| 9 | Their plans were strategic in the sense that an idealized future ( say 20 years hence ) was projected which would accommodate all assumptions as to likely change : there would be no great population growth ( why should there be ? — the 1930s had been a decade of population stagnation , if not decline ) ; inter-war regional drift would be halted ; the housing shortage would be made good ; the necessary population redistributions would be implemented , so reducing densities to an acceptable level in the inner districts ; areas for suburban expansion would be identified and selected against a background of open space and protected countryside ; lines for improved road communication would be safeguarded and the commercial areas , particularly town centres , would be better defined and made architectural show-pieces . |
| 10 | There 'd been a decade of de-skilling said Mr Kinnock , but Labour would set in motion a national training strategy . |
| 11 | It 's been a weekend of turmoil for Oxford United , still looking for a new manager . |
| 12 | It 's been a weekend of turmoil for Oxford United , still looking for a new manager . |
| 13 | Later in the month , however , agreements were reached which pre-emptied a crisis although discontent in the military remained and had been a factor in Enrico de Melo 's resignation as Defence Minister at the beginning of the year [ for which see p. 37197 ] . |
| 14 | The authorities denied that " ethnic rivalry " had been a factor in rioting in the town of Labe in Middle Guinea region on Oct. 29 , 1989 , in which six people were killed and the town 's police station was set on fire . |
| 15 | Moreover it is difficult , if not impossible , to determine whether the third defendant and the third party are liable in respect of the same damage until there has been a trial in order to determine what , if any , damage they are each liable for . |
| 16 | There has been a revival of catastrophe theory , a return to doctrines over 200 years old , to explain extinctions . |
| 17 | There has recently been a revival of interest in changes in colonic motility in ulcerative colitis . |
| 18 | It had been a Church of Ireland rectory once , where some forgotten incumbent , a keen hunting man , had built a delightful little yard , adjoining the house and with every horsebox looking into the sun ; with a hundred acres of good limestone land , the place was just the thing for Andrew and his horse-dealing . |
| 19 | But there 's been a change of plan . |
| 20 | I can always ring the house and let her know there 's been a change of plan . ’ |
| 21 | Tell him there has been a change of plan , that you can not be with him tonight . ’ |
| 22 | At least , she thought she was — until the day before her flight , when a DSD representative phoned and told her there 'd been a change of plan . |
| 23 | ‘ There 's been a change of plan , ’ Ashley said sharply . |
| 24 | So the work remains , in some sense , circular : but what is more important to our understanding of the poem , as opposed to the misadventures of the poet , is that there has also been a change of genre . |
| 25 | 9.14 Compensation on vacating Any statutory right of the Tenant to claim compensation from the Landlord on vacating the Premises shall be excluded to the extent that the law allows Basically , the landlord can deny the tenant statutory compensation ( currently the rateable value of the premises ) if there has been a change of ownership during the last five years of the term prior to its expiration and the assignee is not a successor to the business of the assignor . |
| 26 | There has unfortunately in my opinion been a change of attitude about which cases to prosecute |
| 27 | ‘ There has definitely been a change of attitude on the part of the British Government , ’ Salman Rushdie is saying , in his cultured , impeccable tones . |
| 28 | One of them told me the changes they 've put now are so dramatic , there might as well have been a change of government . |
| 29 | In another case there was an announcement of a General Election and in another case there was a concern that there may have been a change of government because of the opinion polls . |
| 30 | But Fermi requires there to have been a change of sign . |