Example sentences of "have [adv] [be] a [adj] force " in BNC.
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| 1 | Historically sport has broadly been a cohesive force in imperial relations . |
| 2 | Even in this sense as Chapter 5 will show , the LDP has hardly been a united force , with the cabinet and Diet members divided into personality factions and at odds with bureaucrats or business on some issues . |
| 3 | Their attempt to whip up opposition to him when news of Stony Stratford reached London had proved abortive and since then they had apparently been a spent force . |
| 4 | Their attempt to whip up opposition to him when news of Stony Stratford reached London had proved abortive and since then they had apparently been a spent force . |
| 5 | Such signs of relative forgiveness on the part of the leaders he had persecuted so relentlessly in the past , particularly Deng Xiaoping , offer perhaps the clearest insight into Chen 's career : he had never been a political force in his own right but merely a faithful interpreter and executor of Mao 's will . |
| 6 | It 's always been a Dark Force , and you 've only succeeded in harnessing a minuscule aspect of it . |