Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] been a [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem of accommodating inconsistent , if not incompatible GUIs has been a persistent and nagging thorn in the side of industry standards organisations — UI , X/Open Co Ltd and IEEE alike . |
| 2 | The ascent of Arsenio Hall has been a low but steady one . |
| 3 | The advent of Edna into the household had been a miraculous and totally unexpected blessing , if such a word could be applied to what had become a devastating situation . |
| 4 | This was no anti-war , limp-wristed liberal telling the American people that the Vietnam War had been a colossal and ghastly waste of life and money . |
| 5 | In certain areas of the country industrialization had been a slow but continuous process since the seventeenth century or even earlier ; and it is a process which has not finished yet . |
| 6 | The relationship between content and style has been a constant and controversial preoccupation of literary critics . |
| 7 | How such behaviours have evolved in the face of selection favouring the maximization of individual reproduction has been a great and tantalizing mystery to evolutionary theorists . |
| 8 | She 'd been so relieved at the news of Liz and Owen 's removal from Intensive Care that seeing the other girl 's still , slight figure lying motionless on the hospital bed had been a deep and severe shock . |
| 9 | Restoring the balance between prevention , cure and care has been a major or minor theme of health policy ever since . |
| 10 | For Philip , the encounter has been a bizarre and disturbing diversion from his ordinary world . |
| 11 | The Judge , Mrs Justice Ebsworth sentenced Bailey to life imprisonment saying : ’ The events leading to the killing had been a brutal and arrogant series of acts . ’ |
| 12 | In the sciences of course the possibility of pure objectivity has been a convenient and fruitful assumption , which has only recently run up against its limitations . |
| 13 | The role of symbol had been a necessary and successful one for de Gaulle up to this point , but it now became much more problematic . |
| 14 | Being the sinless character that I am , my quest for a sin has been a long and arduous task ( which started five minutes ago ) . |
| 15 | The dinner party had been a private and public fiasco . |