Example sentences of "been [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been profiles of him that suggested that he was a jogger who had been bitten by one of Alex ‘ Down Sir ’ Snell 's pit-bulls . |
| 2 | But she admits : ‘ Yes , there have been times of anger and frustration for me as well as Jack . |
| 3 | Not that those centuries had been times of uninterrupted peace . |
| 4 | ‘ We have been progress of the Great Britain Education Bill with a view to ensuring that , as far as possible , parents of children with special educational needs in Northern Ireland enjoy the same rights as those in England and Wales . ’ |
| 5 | None of these people should ever have been prisoners of conscience . |
| 6 | I write that the paradox is apparent because there have been signs of the same phenomenon in England over the past few seasons — and also because it is not at all surprising when you come to think about it . |
| 7 | This polarisation of attitudes was perhaps unfortunate since there had been signs of a certain willingness on the part of the Department to reconsider the validity of their ideas and to give some weight to the social issues behind the public reaction to the housing policy . |
| 8 | Jackals and martens could hardly have lifted the latch and , even if they had found their way in , there would have been signs of a scuffle : dead chickens , scattered feathers . |
| 9 | Surely there would have been signs of porpoise tanks or something of that kind on board , and there was only the diving equipment and the submersible research vehicle . |
| 10 | In more recent years there have been signs of a change in emphasis . |
| 11 | In the past few years there have been signs of its introduction and extension by manufacturing organisations experiencing increasing volatility in their markets , increasing inability to predict their manpower requirements and increasing pressures to minimise labour costs . |
| 12 | As recently as 1985 , there had been signs of greater even-handedness on the part of the RUC , reflected in more frequent prosecutions of Protestants for ‘ insurgency offences ’ . |
| 13 | The winter of Keynesian discontent probably occurred in the early 1980s , since when there have been signs of a marked rally . |
| 14 | Since July 1400 he had been archdeacon of Dorset , absentee but perhaps not without interest . |
| 15 | Neither do I think it altogether heretical to wonder whether some diseases attributed to evil spirits may not have been forms of mental illness . |
| 16 | He had been Dean of Chichester since 1567 , during which time he had succeeded in alienating almost the entire chapter by his forthright attacks on venality , pluralism and spiritual laxity . |
| 17 | At least once in their lives , most of these men would have met Thorfinn : more perhaps than had come face to face with King Duncan in the six years of his reign and before , when he had been prince of Cumbria in the shadow of Malcolm his grandfather . |
| 18 | Although there have been cases of viruses spreading on shrink-wrapped software , these are relatively rare . |
| 19 | Although some of these may have been cases of a genuine change of religious commitment , in many I was given the strong impression that these were people who had come to the church regularly at the time when they were building their political careers but who had subsequently fallen away and now professed no strong denominational attachment . |
| 20 | But the many miles of treeless river inhibits recolonization by otters , and even in the 1980s there have been cases of water authority workmen felling known otter holts . |
| 21 | Some people are wary of keeping Plecs in an aquarium with Discus as there have been cases of Plecs grazing off the sides of the Discus and leaving sucker marks on them but I have not seen any evidence of this from the Spotted Orange Pleco . |
| 22 | There have also been cases of deliberate neglect of property in order to force tenants out of the building . |
| 23 | Sir Edmund found there had been cases of physical ill-treatment such as wall-standing , hooding , noise , deprivation of sleep , and diets of bread and water . |
| 24 | In the past there 'd been cases of children who were witches . |
| 25 | Gastrointestinal involvement by amyloid has been reported in dialysis patients , and there have been cases of intestinal infarction associated with massive amyloid deposits in the muscle layers of the bowel . |
| 26 | Here , a granuloma forms around the larva on the retina , often resembling a retinoblastoma , and there have been cases of precipitate removal of the eye in children following misdiagnosis . |
| 27 | Cllr Murphy , who works for MDC as a caretaker for a block of flats in Coatbridge , says he can prove that there have been cases of patronage to ensure that certain jobs went to Labour Party members . |
| 28 | The move , pending a full disciplinary hearing , follows Mr Murphy 's claims to The Scotsman earlier this month that he has evidence to support claims that there have been cases of patronage to ensure that certain jobs in the local authority went to Labour Party members . |
| 29 | The move , pending a full disciplinary hearing , follows Mr Murphy 's claims to The Scotsman earlier this month that he has evidence to support claims that there have been cases of patronage to ensure that certain jobs in the local authority went to Labour Party members . |
| 30 | It may , for example , have been part of a private collection which itself was catalogued , especially if the collector in question was rich . |