Example sentences of "[noun] have [been] [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If that programme has been such a failure , why do we now have 30 programmes targeting support for identifiable industrial priority areas , and why are there almost 200 collaborative research programmes ? |
| 2 | ‘ By the way , ’ she began , hardly able to credit that , when earlier that morning her car had been such a concern to her , great expanses of time should now elapse without her giving it so much as a thought , ‘ could you tell me the name of the garage where my car — ’ |
| 3 | Even when an in-house team has been successful the changes in many local authorities have been significant , costs have been cut and management has adopted more competitive attitudes . |
| 4 | The house in Mouncy Street had been such a place . |
| 5 | It really was er of the sort , you know , if Cleopatra 's nose had been half an inch longer , history would have all been different , you know , that , that kind of trivia . |
| 6 | Yes but surely if you 're saying in combating Chinese collaborators , settling accounts with landlords and reducing rents and interest , the people have seized the land directly from the landlords thus realizing the principle of the land to the tiller where the mass movement has been thorough the land problem is being or has basically been solved . |
| 7 | One of the great successes of the F-Plan method has been such a meal , a kind of home-made muesli , called Fibre-Filler . |
| 8 | The 1951 Stratford season had been such a success , it would have been foolish to have followed it with any lesser thing . |
| 9 | The kiss had been such a butterfly of a thing that she did not reject it , and when he bent and kissed her cheek she did not reject that either . |
| 10 | It must also be said of Poland that its society has been most resistant to Communist influence and , that of all East European countries , the gap between the state and its society has been greatest The LWP has not gone out of its way to act as the arbiter of events ; rather , it has had this role thrust upon it by Party factionalism and weakness . |
| 11 | ‘ Because my love life has been such a mess ! ’ |
| 12 | When the lessons from the pilot survey have been fully learned alterations can be made where necessary , but if the work done prior to the pilot has been adequate the alterations consequent upon it should not be great . |
| 13 | Mrs Thatcher has been such a figure and , in spite of reverses , she has animated and directed governments with a sense of political direction . |
| 14 | After a while I thought that as Dateline had been such a success the first time why not have some fun and do it again ? |
| 15 | he said he 'd been through recently , oh every time I 've been through Wolverhampton that ring road 's been awful the traffic like |
| 16 | When both electrodes have been pre-heated an arc is struck between them ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 17 | Now if the polymer had been crystallizable the curve of the specific volume against temperature would have shown a discontinuity at the melting point as in Figure 3.12 . |
| 18 | He remembered how he had been taken by force from his home in the Lithuanian village of Akmeyon when he was sixteen ; how he was beaten and spat upon by the officers because he was a Jew ; how he was forced to eat treif , and how his life in the regiment had been such a hell that he decided to desert . |
| 19 | A regular visitor to Upper Dean Terrace was my grandmother 's old cook , Bessie , whose chicken cream and queen of puddings had been such a highlight of Nairn holidays , and who was now living in retirement in nearby Learmonth Terrace . |
| 20 | This popular hotel has been such a success with Club 18–30 that we 're delighted to feature it again as our Club Choice for summer ‘ 90 . |
| 21 | A senior security service officer had been machine-gunned a week earlier in Fayoum town ( about 100 km from Cairo ) as local tensions that dated from the previous year had flared up . |
| 22 | He remained in detention during the rebellion but stated in a letter published in the press that he had been responsible for it , a claim which was interpreted more as a dramatic personal gesture than a statement of fact ; earlier reports stated that the rebellion had been such a surprise to him that he had requested a pistol in order to shoot himself . |
| 23 | Boy George was desperate to meet Yoko , he would have done almost anything to be on with her , and Yoko liked the idea of meeting John Cleese because John Lennon had been such a Monty Python fan . |
| 24 | Encounters have been all the rage of this Italian election campaign — only the 12th since the republic 's first in 1948 . |