Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [vb base] been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those classed as ‘ other homes ’ included convalescent homes , a rehabilitation centre , an assessment centre , a holiday home for the disabled and rest homes which may in practice have been homes for older people ( the classification was made on the basis of the information given by the person interviewed ) . |
| 2 | But of forty-nine ministers in Northern Ireland ( which includes one retired man and three students ) , only six have held elected office , only eleven in total have been office holders in the DUP , and only fifteen in total are members . |
| 3 | For let's face it : the best artists and craftsmen in history have been stay-at-homes , and the greatest happiness has often been found in industrious obscurity . |
| 4 | As we demonstrated in our previous book , moreover , the wedding at Cana — which may in fact have been Jesus 's own wedding — was not a modest village affair , but a sumptuous ceremony of the gentry or aristocracy . |
| 5 | Note that although the actions of the mother , father and child might well have been part of one connected incident , the cuts to the first shot of the older child and to the shot of the father getting to his feet open up the possibility that the actions could in fact have been parts of separate but similar incidents which took place over a very much longer span of time ; the shot of the father could well have been contrived specially , with the help of a little direction from the cameraman in between shots . |