Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] been a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would that 've been a full time then or would she have done other |
| 2 | If we do , we now have a model and can say that he and his family have been through it and have borne it with great fortitude , resilience and courage — as has been said , only through their deep religious faith — and that that has been a great lesson to us all . |
| 3 | Even that has been a mixed blessing . |
| 4 | That has been a primary objective . |
| 5 | ‘ That has been a stylish gown . |
| 6 | There has been nothing to fire the voters ' imagination — no spectacular clashes over policy , no exciting face to face confrontations between leading personalities , no suspense even as to the outcome , for that has been a foregone conclusion for months : the Right will win , and in all probability with a thumping landslide majority . |
| 7 | and that has been a long time coming but it now appears to be |
| 8 | That has been a consistent record of the Government since 1979 . |
| 9 | That has been a big feature of today 's debate , so I want to take the matter a bit further . |
| 10 | That has been a continuing trend . |
| 11 | The fact that these efforts go unrecognised has been a major element in the ‘ failure ’ labels attached to many deaf schoolchildren . |
| 12 | THIS has been a momentous year for CCG in London , with a number of important new contracts and expanded services with existing clients . |
| 13 | True , this has been a disappointing campaign . |
| 14 | ‘ This has been a good test for his knee and we do n't think it is a big problem . |
| 15 | I had got over my nerves by then ( was even thinking Travels With My Angst might not be the most suitable title for my book ) and was able to take a more even view of the handsome tour guide who had confessed to me , ‘ This has been a good trip for me . |
| 16 | This has been a good debate , as Friday debates often are . |
| 17 | This has been a good debate . |
| 18 | Gillian Shephard , the Employment Secretary , told the House : ‘ This has been a good week for Britain . |
| 19 | ‘ This has been a live issue for a long time , but it has been brought into sharp relief by the lack of clear guidance on assessment from the DoH , ’ he said . |
| 20 | This has been a traditional starting-point for both historians and sociologists . |
| 21 | This has been a traditional argument for local and participative democracy ( Pateman , 1973 ) . |
| 22 | This has been a personal crusade to fill that gap . |
| 23 | As Wayne Gossage has said : " Patricia Knapp was one of the few people in the inner circle of the library-college vanguard who was in any way critical " ( Gossage 1975 : 8 ) and this has been a sad weakness in a movement which , with its enthusiasm and provocative reversal of traditional priorities , has aroused much interest and thought amongst educators , librarians and administrators . |
| 24 | This has been a wide-ranging debate . |
| 25 | But this has been a mere flirtation with the market . |
| 26 | This has been a major platform of government economic policy . |
| 27 | This has been a major problem in Kent , Essex , Suffolk , and Norfolk , and most notoriously at Halvergate , where there have also been acidity problems , causing some farmers to have to jet their drains every year . |
| 28 | Furthermore , ERM membership has effectively disciplined many EC governments unable to cure inflation for themselves ; this has been a major factor in the creation of prosperity in Western Europe . |
| 29 | This has been a major factor in the stability which Spencer Stuart has achieved in its offices . |
| 30 | They suggest that public expenditure growth has led to a transfer of productive resources from the private sector to a public sector producing largely non-marketed output , and that this has been a major factor in the UK 's poor performance in the post-war period . |