Sentence examples for been a prize from inspiring English sources

The Panhandle has been a prize for developers for decades.

Renowned in ancient times for its frankincense and metalworking, Oman occupies a strategically important location, for which it has long been a prize for empire builders.

On the rear wall, displayed in a gilded frame, was a large photograph of what must have been a prize cantaloupe.

"This is not and never has been a prize which is awarded on the basis of a popular vote," he said.

Headlines of the day reported on the gala — which drew 800 guests, including erstwhile nobilities as well as Princess Grace of Monaco wearing a jeweled tiara — as if it had been a prize fight.

Once again, would you tell the people of New York if you've been subpoenaed?" If this had been a prize fight, the referee would have stood aside and let the two of them slug it out mano a mano.

Has there ever been a prize-winning scholar as honest about his weaknesses as Steven Levitt?

She is, or has been, a prize-winner, the author of a GCSE set-text, and a small-press publisher.

She was studying English and communications at King's College, London, and in her first two years had been a prize-winning student predicted to get a first.

Choudhry had been a student in English and communications at King's College, London, and in her first two years had been a prize-winning student who was predicted to get a first.

Among the attributes that equipped Mr. Reed spectacularly well for the job were an elfin physique, fleetness of foot (he had been a prize-winning ballroom dancer as a young man) and, perhaps most important, the elocution lessons he had taken in his youth, which let him sail through the rapid-fire patter songs that are the hallmarks of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic baritone roles.