Example sentences of "been [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigeria achieved independence within the Commonwealth in October 1960 , and part of what had been British-administered Cameroons was incorporated into it in 1961 . |
| 2 | The signature looked like Spiggy Meu but it could have been Spiggy Lee . |
| 3 | She had been fiery Sally-Anne still , and then fiery McAllister , and a few moments ' loving from a man she loved had undone her , had brought her not joy , but a trauma of the remembered pain and anguish which Havvie had inflicted on her . |
| 4 | Since then the only world motorcycling champion to show promise on four wheels has been Venezuelan Johnny Cecetto . |
| 5 | Well , do you honestly think the answer would have been the same if I 'd been Norman Ward Westerman or Lord Boddy ? ’ |
| 6 | THAT S when Ill be convinced some gypsy scum fan has nt been doctoring Wilkos cornflakes ( or something ) . |
| 7 | When I have been entertaining Shirley and Terry Jones doing an evening meal on a Saturday or a Sunday and sometimes both to help Shirley when she was getting into the run of going back to work I found that one of the cheapest of dinner party deserts was lemon meringue pie . |
| 8 | Yes , yes When I have , have been entertaining Shirley and Terry , doing an evening meal on a Saturday or a Sunday , sometimes both to help Shirley when she 's getting into the run of going back to work I found that one of the cheapest of dinner party deserts is lemon meringue pie |
| 9 | SHe 'd been entertaining Nathan in Tammuz 's office , messing with the computer . |
| 10 | ‘ That must have been old Mrs Rogers . |
| 11 | That had been old Ian Paisley last time he was in the old country , but he had popped his clogs of apoplexy while explaining the Fall of Port Stanley to Robin Day on Nationwide and it was that upstart Jeffrey Archer now . |
| 12 | When the guard learned what had happened , he simply laughed and said that it must have been old Humphrey . |
| 13 | It had been old Jan 's idea . |
| 14 | It made her feel that he did n't mind everyone knowing she was his girlfriend , and he was really sweet to her in bed , told her she had lovely hair and said she must never , ever cut it , it was so beautiful , and then he began to talk about Therese , saying how cruel it was that he had carried the company all these years and now , just because she was the Direktor 's favourite — he snorted at this point and said he really did believe Therese must have been old Franz 's mistress years ago in Vienna — he was being treated like a pariah , no consideration , everyone being rude and unkind to him , Therese allowed to do just what she liked on the stage even though she 'd been no-one before she came to Hochhauser . |
| 15 | The shabby coat that had once been old Mr Jarman 's strained across his broad shoulders , the short sleeves exposing a good length of arm ; the hands looking bigger than ever . |
| 16 | I could have been old JC himself , I tell you , riding into Jerusalem on his donkey , ready to spread the Good News . |
| 17 | That had been old Throgmorton 's idea . |
| 18 | Gorbachev removed Bakatin as USSR Minister of Internal Affairs on Dec. 2 , appointing in his place Boris Pugo , the ethnic-Latvian chair of the CPSU central control commission and a major-general in the KGB ( he had been Latvian KGB chief in 1980-84 ) . |
| 19 | The high-ups at Drury Lane are anxious to send whole companies — actresses as well as actors — in plays that have been popular London successes . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I do remember one weekend , during the flu outbreak , must have been early April — yes , a girl in prolonged labour , we were all getting worried about her , she nearly lost her baby . |
| 21 | He had been convinced Anna was with Seb . |
| 22 | Even Tillett , regarded by many as the British equivalent of Larkin in language and syndicalist beliefs and whose attacks upon more conventional trade union officials twenty years earlier had not been unlike Larkin 's , saw the writing on the wall . |
| 23 | Guatemala has been Central America 's sideshow . |
| 24 | The main producing areas have been Central Wales , north-west Wales ( Llanwrst ) , the Lake District , the Isle of Man ( Lamplugh , 1903 ) and the Southern Uplands of Scotland ( Leadhills ) . |
| 25 | Would that have been Buffy Strangeways ? ’ |
| 26 | Capodimonte has always been collectable Dennis , it 's never gone , never gone down in in popularity . |
| 27 | Only one patient who had been receiving NSAIDs was still anaemic and that was a man with rheumatoid arthritis whose haemoglobin concentration was 12.7 g/dl . |
| 28 | In the event it was Alaska which became the 49th State of the Union ( in 1959 ) but it could easily have been Coca-Colonial Britain . |
| 29 | Not only was it the first death , but it could easily have been little Enoch , or Jane . |
| 30 | The Social Democrats ' most startling failure has been eastern Germany . |