Example sentences of "[adv] be a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lunch had not altogether been a waste of time . |
| 2 | Now opera has rarely been a naturalistic medium , and never an understated one . |
| 3 | Liberal democracy benefits capitalism not because capitalists control workers ' minds but because the industrial proletariat have rarely been a majority and are a now shrinking minority in advanced capitalist societies . |
| 4 | There has rarely been a clearer example of the extent to which a Conservative leader sets the keynote for the party the extent to which it is moulded round its leader . |
| 5 | Gray had at the most been a shade injudicious , a little unworldly , perhaps , in his supervision of Jefferson . |
| 6 | ‘ Since then it 's mostly been a case of building up our database . |
| 7 | Traditionally , corporate takeover activity has predominantly been a feature of UK and US markets . |
| 8 | and since are a big potential one one ninety four I 've got down here . |
| 9 | The original money was quickly invested and there has since been a stream of rights issues , particularly from companies in Thailand where the fund is 37.8 per cent invested . |
| 10 | There have since been a series of proposals to re-establish some form of compulsory treatment in the community from the Mental Health Act Commission ( in 1986 and again in 1988 ) , the Royal College of Psychiatrists ( 1987 ) , and the British Medical Association ( 1989 ) . |
| 11 | It 's since been a cafe , a grill and a bric-a-brac shop , with plans now to turn it into a museum and heritage centre ; something Browne Willis would doubtless have approved of . |
| 12 | The last two summers have been very hot and dry , although this summer has luckily been a great deal better . |
| 13 | Has there perhaps been a change in the flow or direction of this current ? |
| 14 | But the whole experience left me ruefully feeling that it had perhaps been a mistake to publish a report about them . |
| 15 | perhaps been a little bit dismissive of it because |
| 16 | As your host I have perhaps been a little too brusque . |
| 17 | While there has perhaps been a tendency to over-emphasise health and safety issues in risk management at the expense of others , the weight of legislation in this area has led to the appointment of someone in this role almost as a priority . |
| 18 | The weekend at Carberry had been well received , though the Saturday had perhaps been a little heavy for the participants . |
| 19 | The centre of the discussion was the school curriculum ; and it was frequently observed at the time that this was the first occasion on which politicians or the public at large had concerned themselves with what had hitherto been a wholly professional matter . |
| 20 | The environment has hitherto been a fief of the interior ministry . |
| 21 | What had hitherto been a sporadic , locally-based protest movement directed against specific wars thus acquired an international dimension of steadily increasing significance and coalesced around these two much broader issues which are of considerably more lasting and widespread concern . |
| 22 | Milton remarked that this chair had hitherto been a sinecure , though it carried a salary of over £100 per annum and would ‘ serve any gentleman especially a law[y]er ’ . |
| 23 | However , by adept diplomacy , he was able to impose a form of pax Britannica on what had hitherto been a turbulent part of Africa and thereby maintain the conditions best suited for fostering trade . |
| 24 | There was further a need to replace what had hitherto been a haphazard method of payment by a more formalised scheme involving the payment of a specified sum on the completion of each flat . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , around one in two Germans in both the American and the British Zones — and a percentage on the increase — thought that National Socialism had basically been a good idea , badly carried out , and were far more favourably disposed to it than to communism . |
| 26 | In RENFE , collective bargaining over the past decade or so has basically been a process of dismantling the framework of Francoist labour regulation and replacing it with a series of negotiated agreements . |
| 27 | Opposite are a list of rules for investigative interviews produced by Professor John Yuille for use in Canada . |
| 28 | ‘ But , ’ he points out , ‘ the experience in the US has not necessarily been a success . ’ |
| 29 | It has not necessarily been a good thing in all ways , and there has certainly been a downside . |
| 30 | as if all the work of the past four months had only been a dream , the cutting and the drilling , the painting , the moulding of the lead wire . |