Example sentences of "been [art] [noun] [Wh pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's a sad fact that Celtic have taken advantage of their top players , ’ he claimed , in his ghost-written biography , ‘ The kind of players who have supported Celtic and been really loyal to the club have been the ones who have suffered the most . ’ |
| 2 | It was only natural that the two artist-writers , Gleizes and Metzinger , should have been the ones who were forced into a position of compromise between the two poles of abstraction and representation . |
| 3 | But er interestingly , the Americans have just put er more tax on to their gas for , for different reasons admittedly , and er the environmentalists er always feel happy about that because they 've been the ones who 've been telling us for years that er petrol is if anything underpriced , and that we 're rather profligate in the way that we use it , so er at least some people are happy out of this , not everybody , but it , but er it 's making some people happier . |
| 4 | And in Amabel 's experience it had always been the wife who complained of it , Ethel Lord , for instance , fretting herself into a decline , or very nearly , when her husband had taken to spending so much time in Leeds ; Maria Colclough turning to religion because her man emerged so rarely from his counting house ; even strident Lizzie Braithwaite complaining that she had been neglected for the sake of the business . |
| 5 | At home Madame , if referred to at all , had always been the person who had been derided . |
| 6 | It gave the name of a contact point to follow up information , although some of us had reservations about whether it should have been the person who was actually quoted in the press release |
| 7 | To only a few had he been the devil who gloated over their private grief . |
| 8 | If it had been the Chinese who engulfed the world in a wide-embracing economic system , we might well have found ourselves using jade rather than gold as a symbol of supreme value . |
| 9 | ‘ So it could have been the headmaster who — ? ’ |
| 10 | In the last thirty years , however , it has increasingly been the lawyers who have projected the legal solution to those who were previously estranged . |
| 11 | Thus Jasper 's father might have been the man who was painting the flats and who came in for a cup of tea , or the old lover whom she happened to run into in Denmark Hill , or the neighbour who was moving out of Flat 16 and who came up to say goodbye while his girlfriend was packing their furniture into the rented van . |
| 12 | The main areas of depopulation and enclosure in the Midlands were not on their itinerary , and in Kent , where the peasant community was free , it may well have been the peasantry who wished to consolidate their holdings . |
| 13 | So far they have got away with their high-pressure selling techniques and the only people who have lost out have been the customers who were faced with massive charges they had neither understood nor anticipated . |
| 14 | Here it has been the archivists who have had to confront the difficulties posed by record retention as they attempt to fulfil their statutory duties . |
| 15 | ‘ It must have been the child who bumped into me . |
| 16 | Not only that , but his great-great-uncle had been the architect who designed the Maryinsky in the first place . |
| 17 | Before Hilda he 'd never been the kind who liked to have certainty , but after she came he settled for her way . |
| 18 | You know Jesus has been the leader who 'd been taken away from his group , very clever tactical ploy . |
| 19 | Once it had been the God who was supposed to have asked that too familiar question . |
| 20 | In the wake of the 1975 UDA visit to Libya , it had been the DUP who had played the red card and accused the paramilitaries of flirting with communists . |
| 21 | So it must have been the Gharrgoyles who had put me on the planets surface to die . |
| 22 | Single , never-married daughters traditionally have been the group who provided care for their parents in old age . |
| 23 | Police said he could have been the rapist who has attacked several women over 18 months , including a girl of 15 . |
| 24 | That the cottage meant as much to her as it did to him was obvious , but it did n't occur to him that she might have been the intruder who had broken in . |
| 25 | One mother ( the widow of a lamplighter ) was a machinist at a printer 's ( bookbinding ? ) , and in this case at least it may have been the mother who introduced her daughter to the trade . |
| 26 | In her first term at St Cecilia 's there 'd been a girl who 'd had the gift of levitation , a disturbed girl called Julie who had been able to float eight feet above the ground , whom Miss Scuse had eventually had to have removed . |
| 27 | She seems to have been a girl who drifted into relationships because she did n't like upsetting people . |
| 28 | Gentlemen , not only had our trade been inundated with boys , but fortunately or unfortunately , we have had another element introduced , and you know that I have never been a person who ignored the company of the opposite sex . |
| 29 | But , as Charles knew , Michael Banks had been a person who inspired love . |
| 30 | Her schoolmaster father had been a disciplinarian who firmly believed that sparing the rod spoilt the child and whose memory caused many a local male heart to tremble . |