Example sentences of "[vb base] been the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CLAUDIUS : Thou still hast been the father of good news . |
| 2 | I will be next week , but up to now I 've been the Deputy Managing Director . |
| 3 | I 've been the top , middle , down bu bunk down . |
| 4 | In the four Ryder Cups in which I 've been the Captain Seve has played in every round and I 'm grateful to him for that . |
| 5 | But er interestingly , the Americans have just put er more tax on to their gas for , for different reasons admittedly , and er the environmentalists er always feel happy about that because they 've been the ones who 've been telling us for years that er petrol is if anything underpriced , and that we 're rather profligate in the way that we use it , so er at least some people are happy out of this , not everybody , but it , but er it 's making some people happier . |
| 6 | Ever since we met I 've been the target for veiled accusations and suspicions ! |
| 7 | Already they 've been the target of attacks from warring factions . |
| 8 | In the past they 've been the band most closely associated with the post-'88 cyberdelic culture . |
| 9 | After a while I decided it was best to try and help her get on better with her father , and now by interfering between them I 've been the cause of her being kidnapped . |
| 10 | And I 've been the leader of of that party for the last four and half years , I am ready to step down from that , and ready to take up this challenge , and I believe that those experiences , and what I 've done there , will stand me in good stead . |
| 11 | I have been working at the playgroup in Middleton St George for about seven years now , and I 've been the leader for about two . |
| 12 | Yes , we 've been the channels , been been right through to street lighting itself |
| 13 | They 've been the guests of a charity in Worcestershire , and Central News has been following their progress … for a special programme to be shown this weekend . |
| 14 | They 've been the guests of a charity in Worcestershire , and Central News has been following their progress … for a special programme to be shown this weekend . |
| 15 | It does have some impact I 'm sure that you 've been the training session and you thought it 's really good , really got a lot out of it and you 're quite surprised to see someone sitting next to you did n't like that much at all , you thought hmm wonder why that is because I found the content really interesting and it could have been the content matter did n't really sort of do anything for the people , it could have been the way it was put together , put over and the way it was actually structured . |
| 16 | I 've been the guest of Michael Parkinson , Russell Harty , Des O'Connor , and Gay Byrne on The Late Late Show in Dublin . |
| 17 | It is expected that the MMC investigators will be particularly interested in the CAA 's air traffic control operations which have been the centre of a long-running controversy involving aircraft ‘ near misses ’ , poor morale among controllers and equipment break-downs . |
| 18 | Prague 's cafes have been the centre of cultural activity since the days of the Austro-Hungarian empire . |
| 19 | Since its publication , the RAWP Report and its implementation have been the centre of considerable discussion , analysis and controversy ( see Mays and Bevan , 1987 ) which is outside the scope of the discussion here . |
| 20 | It is pretty disgraceful if I can not put to the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East the points which have been the centre of debate in this country for the past 10 days , but I shall do so . |
| 21 | It is interesting that since I have been the Minister responsible for regional policy , regional spending has increased from £506 million in 1990 to £534 million in 1991-92 . |
| 22 | A series of conversations with foundation arts students , arts graduates and post graduates reveals plenty of sludge amongst a privileged group who have been the recipients of a generous slice of the United Kingdom 's art ‘ Education ’ cake . |
| 23 | Two local village churches have been the recipients of the Group 's generosity : in 1958 the Church of St. James , Thrapston , received the pews which had previously been installed in the Chelveston base chapel and the tower of the Church of St John the Baptist in nearby Caldecott-cum-Chelveston was restored with the help of the 305th . |
| 24 | A House have been the recipients of the kind of underwhelming apathy that would lead most bands to go back to their day jobs and while away their evening swilling pints In The Norseman , mulling over what might have been . |
| 25 | The brightest sports have been the expansion of the Institute 's international work and the expectation of a successful merger with the Chartered Building Societies Institute . |
| 26 | Included in this overview have been the campaigns against the Thorsen film and James Kirkup 's poem in Gay News , where blasphemy was the central explicit issue ; Mrs Whitehouse 's criticism of television , in particular the BBC 's supposed bias toward ‘ South Bank ’ theology , and Till Death Us Do Part 's irreverence towards Christianity ; the perceived lack of support for the NVALA from Church leaders . |
| 27 | Most significant in recent years have been the field experiments carried out by the British ornithologists Nick Davies and Mike Brooke from the University of Cambridge , and the field observations of another British ornithologist , Ian Wyllie . |
| 28 | In a totally different category , however , have been the attempts to use the administration of the law for expedients such as unjustified murder charges in order to promote the political interests of the government . |
| 29 | For the past decade , I have been the parent of a child who suffers from cerebral palsy . |
| 30 | The object of ( b ) is to require delivery of the accounts of an unlimited company if two or more limited companies would , if they had been a single entity , have been the parent of the unlimited company under the criteria in section 258 , although technically the unlimited company is not a subsidiary of any of them . |