Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been a [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the freezing barren icelands of the Arctic north , whale and dolphin meat has long been a traditional and important part of the diet for coastal settlements . |
| 2 | Teaching has always been a demanding and shifting job . |
| 3 | Protection of the young has ostensibly been a central and ever-present concern in Mrs Whitehouse 's and the NVALA 's campaigns ever since they began . |
| 4 | There has also been a growing and restless desire for something new — and a fresh way of making that vital statement . |
| 5 | This has undoubtedly been a welcome and popular policy . |
| 6 | There has therefore been a steady and persistent ‘ drift from the land ’ of agricultural labour , which is either pushed out by continuing mechanization and the adoption of other labour-saving techniques or lured into other industries by the prospect of higher wages and better conditions of employment . |
| 7 | In Church [ 1966 ] 1 QB 59 ( CCA ) , Edmund-Davies J was driven to say that " there has never been a complete and satisfactory definition of manslaughter " . |
| 8 | Medau has never been a static or sterile form of movement . |
| 9 | The divide between theory and empirical data had long been a recurrent and problematic one for the social sciences , not least within sociology . |
| 10 | Darren had always been a good and well-behaved boy but once he had returned home he had been waking repeatedly in the night and been difficult to manage in the day . |
| 11 | He had always been a good and generous man . |
| 12 | The zoo keeper said that the elephant had always been a calm and gentle animal before . |
| 13 | And a mess of twisted brass bonded with what had once been a small but efficient pulse-receiver . |
| 14 | It had also been a difficult and painful year . |
| 15 | She had never been a tense or anxious person . |