Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] been a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Now opera has rarely been a naturalistic medium , and never an understated one . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | The last two summers have been very hot and dry , although this summer has luckily been a great deal better . |
4 | There has obviously been a conscious decision and determination on his part to make his life a fulfilment of prophetic utterance . |
5 | Beyond this , however , its origin has hitherto been an insoluble problem : the explicit evidence of the ancients is notoriously inadequate and various different theories have been constructed from it . |
6 | The Treaty brings about the formal transformation of what has hitherto been an Economic Community into a Union which is mandated to act in many areas on behalf of its own citizens , and to claim their allegiance . |
7 | It has all been a fantastic myth exploded by grim reality . |
8 | Kate Greenaway has long been a firm favourite among collectors who will pay £2,000-£3,000 for a collection of her Almanacks and £30-£50 for most single specimens . |
9 | The numbers of acute beds that a service needs has long been a contentious issue . |
10 | The examination system has long been a serious bone of contention in this country . |
11 | Transport of raw materials for energy use has long been a major sector in marine commerce but coal in particular has been the dominant single energy cargo . |
12 | ICI has long been a major supplier of surfactants , which are the active ingredient in detergents . |
13 | However , the escape from spontaneity has long been a philosophical ideal , at its most intransigent in Sartre 's Being and nothingness , which treats even emotion as a matter of choice , to the point of denying the distinction between genuine and willed feeling . |
14 | ( The Thatcher mug has long been a best seller . ) |
15 | D Goldstein of Staravia Ltd , Ascot , who has long been a good friend of the aircraft preservation movement , offered a range of instruments . |
16 | Whereas Mr Orlando has long been a troublesome hero for his party , Mr Segni does not look like a troublemaker . |
17 | This , too , is unlikely , for Mr Morita has long been a noisy critic of America and was saying nothing new . |
18 | While DEC Europe has long been a strong advocate for X.desktop , DEC US originally opted for the rival Visix Looking Glass product ( UX No 306 ) , and more recently began evaluating HP 's Visual User Environment ( UX No 377 ) . |
19 | There has long been a hidden agenda in foreign language teaching which included the notion that the ultimate aim was to create bilinguals in the foreign and mother tongues . |
20 | The mere business of shifting passengers has long been a dreary distraction . |
21 | The University has long been a leading centre for research in this field , and just over a year ago Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre ( EPCC ) was established to focus further on these issues . |
22 | Non-evaluative criticism , as propounded by the successive Merton professors , Gardner and Carey , has long been a popular ideal at Oxford . |
23 | But dance has long been a popular option at Haughton where teacher Jenny Ruston says its hard to find the time to meet all the demand from boys and girls . |
24 | Igls has long been a popular summer haunt of the Austrians , and therefore has much to offer the visitor . |
25 | The contamination of clay bodies by minute metallic elements has long been a recurring nightmare for potters despite stringent efforts to eradicate the ‘ disease ’ . |
26 | HOARDING clothes has long been a British vice . |
27 | There has long been an unspoken consensus across the party spectrum that challenging the system would be to enter a political minefield . |
28 | On the contrary , the development of such instruments has only been a first step , preparatory to examining the reasons people differ on such traits . |
29 | There has thus been a significant debate about the extent to which the state still dominates in international relations . |
30 | Historically sport has broadly been a cohesive force in imperial relations . |