Example sentences of "been [art] [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Sudan 's greatest economic asset since the 1920s has been the Gezira Scheme , comprising nearly 2 million acres under irrigation , growing a variety of cash crops , notably cotton . |
| 32 | There 's the Coventry Blitz , which was to have been the Ramsgate Blitz until problems with planning permission . |
| 33 | Institutions might even consider sanctions : museums could refuse to lend to an exhibition if the public body behind it is falling down in its conservation duties ( a recent likely candidate for boycotting would have been the Titian exhibition in Venice in 1989 ) . |
| 34 | Since 1965 , when the Communist party of Indonesia was blamed for an attempted coup and banned , and hundreds of thousands of communists were killed or sent to prison , the legal instrument most often used to curb political offences has been the Anti-Subversion Law . |
| 35 | A major user of NASA data and skills has been the UN Environment Programme . |
| 36 | The most obviously " compromised " of all groups in Yugoslavia during the war had been the Croat Ustachi , troops of the puppet state set up in Croatia under Anton Pavelic , and in many cases led by men who even before the war had shown pro-Fascist and anti-Yugoslav Royalist sympathies . |
| 37 | He may have been the Richard Whit or White matriculated at Magdalen Hall , Oxford , in 1584 , though this is not certain . |
| 38 | Otherwise , if the weather was good , we would spend the rest of the day with our friends among the marble busts and statues in the romantic Giardino Pubblico , which had once been the Parco Ducale of Maria Luigia 's palace . |
| 39 | There 'd been the Scofield incident you see . |
| 40 | Roger Boyes , who for the past three years has been the Leeds finance director , will become acting chief executive from next Monday . |
| 41 | FOR 20 years Barry Norman has been the Mr Cool of movie reviewing . |
| 42 | Very recently , in the 1950s and 1960s , there have been the Rex cats and the Scottish Fold cat , and even more recently the Somali and the Burmilla , although these are little more than crosses . |
| 43 | In 1980 we ought perhaps to have asked ourselves whether this river might have been the Shatt al-Arab itself , while one of the characters was Iranian and the other Iraqi . |
| 44 | Josiah , the father of Benjamin Franklin , was born in the Northamptonshire village of ECTON , which had been the Franklin family home for over 300 years . |
| 45 | During the Eighties , it has been the Thatcher-Reagan model which has enjoyed the higher global vogue . |
| 46 | These have been the Saturn years — during which that planet 's insistence that you measure up to your potential has placed hurdles of all sorts in your way . |
| 47 | But Joseph had always been very devoted to any local news and for a long time the talk of the town had been the Cockermouth man — Fletcher Christian 's — Mutiny . |
| 48 | Home for much of Tina 's pregancy has been the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford . |
| 49 | The thing that 's really helped enormously recently has been the Phoenix Centre and the development of the Phoenix Centre , and there 's room there for a lot of volunteers to work in various capacities . |
| 50 | He had set up in practice on his own about nine years before the competition , and his most important executed work up until then had been the Tudor style Royal Infirmary at Dundee ( 1852–5 ) , which he had won in competition . |
| 51 | A possible source of these cowries would have been the Pulo Condore islands off the Mekong delta of south Vietnam . |
| 52 | Even so , she felt sure that it was something to do with her , that there should only have been the Maxwell girl there . |
| 53 | Mr Parretti , it seems , has been no Sam Goldwyn . |
| 54 | There have been no January records . |
| 55 | Its only significant achievements came at the outset , when the Great Powers recognized the legitimacy of de Gaulle 's government and invited France to become a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council — a status which would almost certainly not have been offered , had there been no de Gaulle and no Free France . |
| 56 | The call on Sanders elicited the information that the client in question had been a Herr Fedorov , who lived in a large house just north of the village . |
| 57 | Among those to achieve notoriety was US assistant secretary of state George McGhee ( the fact that he had been a Rhodes scholar seemingly counted for nothing on either side ) . |
| 58 | The Public Enemy had been a Warner Bros film and that studio soon went on to consolidate its reputation as one specializing in contemporary themes by releasing I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang . |
| 59 | Peter the Great had a particular liking for Scots , probably influenced by his mother who had been reared by a Scotswoman , and by his own guardian after his father 's death having been a General Menzies . |
| 60 | There were few French wars in which the de Castelnau clan had not distinguished itself ; there had been a General de Castelnau under the great Napoleon , and another had been selected by Louis Napoleon to accompany him into exile after the dismal capitulation at Sedan . |