Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unveiling the 28th edition , associate editor Alison Holding said : ‘ The recession has been quite a leveller . |
| 2 | Of course debate about the National Curriculum has been around a lot longer , but its popularisation and public debate is a relatively recent phenomenon . |
| 3 | Up to this period , mining had been essentially a hand-craft where , as in farming , man-power and horse-power had been the chief means of winning the product . |
| 4 | The mainland campaign had been just a foretaste of what might be coming , he said . |
| 5 | The mainland campaign had been just a foretaste of what might be coming in the next two months , said RUC Chief Constable Sir Hugh Annesley . |
| 6 | The London period had been primarily a test of willpower and improvisation . |
| 7 | But poverty had been just a word , an image on a screen — until now . |
| 8 | Thatcherism has been both a matter of style — combining impatience with much of the status quo and a relentless promotion of new attitudes — and policies . |
| 9 | The pretence that his , Surkov 's , opening had been merely a dream was a pathetic cliché . |
| 10 | How last year the crop had meant nothing to him at all ; how , without understanding , he had walked about the harbour and warehouses of Episkopi , and the misuse of the Order 's cargo of sugar had been simply a matter noted and used as a playing-counter . |
| 11 | Chalmers 's form has been quite a contrast to last season , when he was often indecisive in his play and tended to look for gaps which rarely existed before passing or kicking . |
| 12 | Cetera was subsequently cleared ( only to die later in mysterious circumstances ) but the real worry , for the DIA , was that the Italian court also found that the drug trafficking had been merely a cover , to justify payments to the Kabbaras as DEA informants . |
| 13 | But Ben was staring down at where his left hand had been only a moment before , sounding the chord . |
| 14 | Until now Sarajevo airport has been almost a haven from the gunfire . |
| 15 | Membership of the ILP had been largely a formality for the remaining four-fifths of the original group , though some active ILP members like Dr Alfred Salter and Emanuel Shinwell were among those severing their connections with the party . |
| 16 | In truth , the last time had been over a year ago . |
| 17 | For , in its great days , particularly in the age of the Antonines in the second century , the Roman empire had been primarily a civilization of towns . |
| 18 | ( I 'm pretty certain I never believed that one , I mean the guy had been dead a week , for Pete 's sake . |
| 19 | All the ministers were new to government office ; the Minister of Finance had been hitherto a banker , the Interior Minister a lawyer and the Minister of Foreign Affairs the ambassador to the United States . |