Example sentences of "been a [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 | The owner of the estate in the fourth century would thus have been a Firminus , since it is reasonably certain that this building stone belonged to the house built c . |
| 3 | [ We think this may have been a gag . ] |
| 4 | I had then been a night junior . |
| 5 | It had been a night to remember , not least because even Lord C had n't thought to include such tricks in his training schedule at Holmsly Manor . |
| 6 | It had n't been a night they had lived through ; it had been the Dark Ages — all seven centuries of them , with wars and oppressions , visions and turbulences . |
| 7 | Me , I 've been a night person longer than I can remember . ’ |
| 8 | Only one train crossed the near-distant bridge at this hour and that had been a night train going nowhere , its carriages empty and its windows dark . |
| 9 | For her it had been a night of mystery and of magic , and he had reduced it to ‘ unacceptable behaviour ’ . |
| 10 | One of the rusting iron pipes fastened to the shed wall and apparently coming from what remained of the old boilerhouse inside , had a plate affixed to it , near the stump of what must have been a water stop valve . |
| 11 | Neither was there Wendy , a girl in my form ( it had been a school trip ) who had legs that never quit , long legs , the type rampant fell men dream of . |
| 12 | NUTFIELD PRIORY , AN enormous Victorian Gothic mansion near Reigate , had for many years been a school for the blind . |
| 13 | They all laughed , for Breeze 's untidiness had been a school joke for years . |
| 14 | There has been a school on the site ever since . |
| 15 | He was too young to remember when it had been a school , though his mother could , she had been there as a pupil . |
| 16 | It was as if all that we had done … had been a school and a preparation both for that first day in which I suddenly knew how to make one-step dry photographic process and for the following three years in which we made the very vivid dream into a solid reality . |
| 17 | She 's been a school governor a Labour councillor T L P executive member member of the Social Security and industrial tribunals . |
| 18 | The very existence of the interment camps had been a state secret and virtually all the materials on display would have been ‘ classified ’ before the recent revolution . |
| 19 | For too long education has been a state within a state , with its own corporatist culture of welfare dependency , and levelling dogma and practice — practice for years endorsed and encouraged by the supposedly independent inspectorate of schools . |
| 20 | We used these techniques to show that there must have been a state of infinite density in the past , if the general theory of relativity is correct . |
| 21 | The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , which was ceded by Spain to the United States of America in 1898 , has since 1952 been a state in " free association " with the USA and has a Resident Commissioner who is a non-voting member of the US House of Representatives . |
| 22 | The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain to the United States in 1898 , and has , since 1952 , been a state in " free association " with the USA . |
| 23 | Representing Yeltsin , the former State Councillor for legal affairs Sergei Shakhrai [ see pp. 38875 ; 38923 ] emphasised that the CPSU had been a state mechanism , not a political party . |
| 24 | Over at the west end of Hury there was a house which had been a pub called the Hare and Hounds , occupied by a family who were rather special to me . |
| 25 | She lived in a house down the street at Brampton , a house that had been a pub ; and the name of it was The Case is Altered . |
| 26 | Over the years , it 's been a pub , a guest house , now it 's just home to it 's owner , John Humphries . |
| 27 | He himself had long been a specialist in such relief when he would instantly brighten faces during his favourite tours of prisons , orphanages and nursing homes . |
| 28 | Until now the treatment of sports injuries has been a specialist skill only available to top professionals and some people fortunate to live near a good clinic . |
| 29 | as if all the work of the past four months had only been a dream , the cutting and the drilling , the painting , the moulding of the lead wire . |
| 30 | Member Johnny Day of Bexhill , envies the other member who after complaining to the Diary that his service must have been a dream , was subsequently contacted by old colleagues . |