Example sentences of "been a [noun] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Cheap solar energy conversion has been a dream of some scientists since the first oil crisis back in the late 1970s . |
| 3 | Such uncollegial feeling has been a factor at some investment banks : Smith Barney , for example . |
| 4 | There has been a church on this site since 1170 but the present building dates from 1430 , with the famous hexagonal and crocketed spire being added in the early fifteenth hundreds . |
| 5 | There has been a church on this site since 519 AD . |
| 6 | Clearly these are still working groups , usually of type ( ii ) , with a manifesto , a periodical and exhibitions , but there has also been a change of some kind in their social relations , and this can best be understood by the second kind of analysis , of the proposed and actual relations with all those beyond the group . |
| 7 | If there has been a history of such problems , an industrial tribunal may accept that eventually you became entitled to say ‘ enough is enough ’ and leave . |
| 8 | But surely there has never been a case of any Hollywood actor admitting himself for therapy because he was so badly addicted to women . |
| 9 | There 's been a misunderstanding about those photographs . ’ |
| 10 | He had been a sub-editor in those days , working for a huge magazine corporation , and they had struck up an instant rapport , and when he was made first assistant editor and then editor , always moving from magazine to magazine , he had pushed work her way whenever he could . |
| 11 | Although there has been a settlement of some sort at North Shields since the Middle Ages , the modern town is a product of the addition of industrial capitalism to mercantile capitalism . |
| 12 | There has n't been a longbow on those walls for two days . |
| 13 | I 've never been a part of any plot ! |
| 14 | The interpretation of the requirement in practice has varied and there has been a tendency for some companies to understate rather than emphasise the significance of what they have done . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's the way it should be , ’ said Joanna , then added grimly , ‘ but , having been a locum in many practices … ’ |
| 16 | It has been a mistake of many developments in MIS to concentrate on solutions in the form of computer packages such as Schools Information and Management Systems ( SIMS ) in the school sector or Further Education Management Information System ( FEMIS ) in the FE sector . |
| 17 | Such a multiple attack had been a possibility for some time . |
| 18 | He said the buy-out had been a possibility for some time , but the two sides had only got down to serious discussions in the past few months . |
| 19 | There had in fact only been one occasion during those last years that Lewis could remember and he was sure Adam had only gone because there had been a promise of some shooting . |
| 20 | It was after myxomatosis ; there had not been a rabbit in that field or anywhere around for years . |
| 21 | I have been a supporter of this club since before the war , so I know what I am talking about . |
| 22 | I do not mean to imply , he wrote , that nothing existed before that moment , no plans , no designs , no sketches and no notes , of course there were plans and designs , sketches and notes , how could there not be , he wrote , when my whole life has been nothing but a preparation for this beginning , not only in the sense that everyone 's life is always a preparation for every beginning in that life but in the quite specific sense that my own life has always been a preparation for this beginning , nothing but a preparation for this beginning , both consciously and unconsciously , with everything I have done as well as everything I have thought , everything I have felt as well as everything I have suffered . |
| 23 | Formal planning has been a feature of many schools and local authorities for a number of years now , and for those who have yet to embark , DES Circular 7/88 , The Education Act : Local Management of Schools has now made this a statutory requirement . |
| 24 | It also brings out further one character 's idée fixe ( stonework ) , and develops the theme of racial tension/personal harmony which has been a feature of this relationship in the story for some time . |
| 25 | Maybe introducing a touch of that pragmatic responsible approach to financial control which has been a feature of this Union 's development over the years . |
| 26 | From the evidence of the biographical sources , this would appear to be a nearly complete list of the mevleviyet kadiliks of the time ; the only surprising omission is the kadilik of Mecca , which seems to have been a mevleviyet for some years before 963 . |
| 27 | He has been a member of that Committee since it was re-established in 1991 . |
| 28 | To be eligible to attend a meeting of the General Committee referred to in paragraphs ( e ) or ( h ) , a person must have been a member of this Constituency Labour Party for at least twelve months prior to the date of the relevant meeting and have attended at least one previous meeting of the General Committee during the same period . |
| 29 | Frank who had a been a member of this society for more than twenty six years . |
| 30 | In the same year he joined British Gas Southern as a driver in the transport section he has now nearly completed thirty four years ' service with British Gas and has been a member of this trade union for nearly thirty four years . |