Example sentences of "been [noun] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Short circuit racing has always been McWilliams ' scene . |
| 2 | The heart of the problem has been governments ' concern with social justice and an egalitarian distribution of income which has led them into passing legislation which has increased the costs of doing business . |
| 3 | It had been Amos ' son , Robert , who had designed City Earth . |
| 4 | This had been Jesus ' gospel ; it concerned the Father only , not the Son — for Jesus had not proclaimed himself . |
| 5 | Of these , control of the landscape is perhaps the most important , and hence at all times the administration or ordered management of the land was carried out from certain places , which may have been chiefs ' residences , tribal capitals , kingly , lordly , or religious establishments . |
| 6 | Her own flat was a little three-roomed affair on the top floor of an old West London house , in what had once been servants ' bedrooms . |
| 7 | The top storey was a one-bedroomed apartment , rooms that had once been servants ' quarters in the tight spaces where the house narrowed towards the roof . |
| 8 | Inside was a bare stone corridor , giving access to what would , in the old days , have been servants ' quarters , kitchens and store-rooms . |
| 9 | They left behind them a mouldering group of small loft buildings whose interior columns might once have been ships ' masts . |
| 10 | Fujitsu and Siemens have been bes ' friends for decades , and Fujitsu already supplies Siemens biggest mainframe CPUs OEM , while Siemens markets Fujitsu VP supercomputers in Europe . |
| 11 | It seems to have been Charles ' policy to broaden the education and leadership of his sons , and at the same time not to allow them to become too entrenched in their own subkingdoms . |