Example sentences of "[noun sg] been [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had the recommendation been for industrial action and the crews voted against , I have no doubt Mr Clarke would have applauded the triumph of democracy . |
| 2 | Thorkell was there , having in the interval been in English service , and so was the Norwegian Earl Eric of Lade , and , if we can trust Thietmar of Merseburg , one Thorgut . |
| 3 | For has n't this war been of immense gain to Bush and Major ? |
| 4 | Had the Pages ' passion been for Lalique glass , the family might have felt constrained to creep about gingerly on tiptoe . |
| 5 | ‘ And how had Master Allingham been in recent days ? ’ |
| 6 | The successful rider and breeder , Henry Wynmalen , through his kind and intuitive approach to the handling and management of horses , has no doubt been of tremendous influence in England , Australia , and New Zealand , in reinforcing humane and commonsense ways of caring for and training horses , and in illustrating the greater pleasure and success produced by using such methods . |
| 7 | A further survey of men in the Camberwell Reception Centre one night in 1965 found that a quarter of them had at one time been in mental hospitals and a further quarter were heavily dependent on alcohol . |
| 8 | Some of the worst tyrants have in fact been without private vices : as Bertrand de Jouvenel once noted , ‘ power is the most perfect form of self-indulgence ’ . |