Example sentences of "been a [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been a school on the site ever since . |
| 2 | There has been a church on this site since 1170 but the present building dates from 1430 , with the famous hexagonal and crocketed spire being added in the early fifteenth hundreds . |
| 3 | There has been a church on this site since 519 AD . |
| 4 | When the security forces sought to empty the pastor 's house of its possessions , a human chain of several dozen formed around the house , setting in train a flood of protest that was to escalate into what appears to have been a massacre on Sunday . |
| 5 | There has n't been a longbow on those walls for two days . |
| 6 | ( a ) Stamp duty No " PD Form " is required unless there has been a conveyance on sale ( eg Precedents 9 and 10 ) . |
| 7 | There has been a tendency on the part of the Commission to interpret Article 85(1) very widely so that all restrictions fall within it and require exemption . |
| 8 | Doyle had experienced Len Hatch when he had been a policeman on the beat . |
| 9 | It had been a mistake on her part to appoint him chairman of the Party in the 1980s , the twin conditions of the appointment being , as she remembered , the removal of his ‘ dreadful ’ beard and the dropping of the ‘ Selwyn ’ . |
| 10 | Iraq , a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty , appears to have managed to divert nuclear materials to bomb-making despite regular safeguard inspections , but the treaty has been a success on the whole — as indeed has been the complex structure of hot-line , surveillance and negotiation which has ensured that the East-West ‘ balance of terror ’ never tipped over into nuclear war : |
| 11 | At first I thought it had maybe been a cat on the roof , then possibly some inept burglar . |
| 12 | This appears simply to have been a trick on the part of the attorney , and not evidence that Rothbury was known to have been corrupt . |
| 13 | His eyes had been a brand on her flesh , stripping away her clothes , caressing her so that she had felt her heartbeat quickening . |
| 14 | It could have been a variant on the banana sign . ’ |
| 15 | To the press , the Review Panel has been a knight on a white charger and its potential victims the blackest of villains . |
| 16 | In recent years there has been a trend on the part of certain police authorities to move from discussing equipment , etc. , to attempting to influence styles of policing and indeed to involve themselves in operational matters , for example in relation to industrial disputes and demonstrations . |
| 17 | Collingwood was unable to locate this but it might , perhaps , have been a working on the Kernal Vein , at a point just above the Levers Water Waterfall/Red Dell " water-race , at N.G.R. SD 29 NE 2843.9900 . |
| 18 | ‘ There has been a development on the Livesey case , sir . |
| 19 | This has been a problem on some of the new designs of Sprinter and at present , it is often quite uncertain whether one can or can not travel with a cycle on specific journeys , which discourages cyclists from using rail at all . |
| 20 | The twitch broadened fractionally into what might have been a smile on anyone else but on him was just a rearrangement of composed features . |
| 21 | During the 1967 San Francisco Film Festival , Crawford met Gene Kelly , the song-and-dance maestro who had himself been a hit on the Broadway stage before starring in film musicals such as Singing In the Rain . |
| 22 | He 's always been a bit on his dignity , I suppose , but that 's the way he is . |
| 23 | Support for loss-making state enterprises had also been a drain on the budget , with over 50,000 million yuan spent on subsidies . |
| 24 | If Ralph Glaber 's information on the assistance sent to the Normans by Cnut is correct , it could have been a staging-post on a journey south . |
| 25 | Spain under her last Habsburg kings , it was pointed out , had controlled far more territory than any other European country and had none the less been a victim-State on the point of internal collapse . |
| 26 | There had been a bulb on the staircase but this had been removed by a stranger , for whose actions the defendants were not responsible . |
| 27 | Granny 's son had been a gamekeeper on the estate , but now that he had gone elsewhere to work Sir Benson had given Granny notice that she must quit the cottage . |
| 28 | There has never been a ban on supplying nicotine substitutes to individual patients . |
| 29 | Since the 1920s fertility in Britain has been a variation on a two-child family theme . |
| 30 | I found myself half-way up the path between the rhododendrons before the conscious mind caught up with the fact that , though there had been a padlock on the garden gate , the gate had been unlocked . |