Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [been] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The staple crop has for centuries been rice , and wet-rice agriculture has been of crucial significance in the evolution of Japanese society .
2 He has also of course been Chairman of the Sekers Group for a number of years .
3 His invoker had of course been Joshua Godolphin , and he 'd commanded Dowd to serve his line until the end of time .
4 The percentage varies according to whether there have in addition been discussion sessions or an examination on the subject matter .
5 In fact been treatment with antibiotics and cream .
6 It was only later that they discovered that the mysterious column , which in the heat haze had looked like twenty-five Lancia trucks , had in fact been Timpson 's patrol .
7 Although his constitution was essentially a durable one ( he was " tough " , his sister , Ada , had said ) , from the earliest days of his marriage he had in fact been prey to various kinds of viral infection .
8 The Soviet authorities had no reason to take any interest in the fate of a handful of foreign invaders when over twenty million of their own people had been killed , while as for the Italians , it had suddenly become clear that they had in fact been anti-Fascists to a man all along and could hardly be expected to sympathize with the relatives of those few fanatics who had been rash enough to fight for the despised Duce .
9 However , the COB Rules that are applied to these group activities will only apply if they would have been regulated business ( and so within the territorial scope of the SFA rules ) if they had in fact been investment business .
10 There have in fact been achievements in the care of the mentally handicapped in our society , and one of the fundamental barriers still to be broken — that of public opinion — will only come from a more positive attitude among the media to the good things that are happening .
11 since when has Stratford on Avon been south ?
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