Example sentences of "[noun sg] has [adv] [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For women , communism has always been a double-edged sword . |
| 2 | Social responsibility has never been a Greek characteristic . |
| 3 | Nat West says that late payment has recently been a significant factor in the demand for bank finance . |
| 4 | Radar has also been a useful probe of other planets . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The establishment of a National Curriculum has certainly been a major historical movement , but it is not the case that nothing was defined prior to 1988 and now everything is defined . |
| 7 | However , military necessity has always been a dangerous principle when counterposed to the principle of humanitarian limitation of the means of warfare . |
| 8 | Teaching has always been a demanding and shifting job . |
| 9 | Do I discern that skating has not been a frequent pleasure in these parts ? ’ |
| 10 | Your own , personalized weight control programme has not been a sudden thing but has evolved over a long period of time . |
| 11 | The programme has also been a useful catalyst to closer collaboration between FE colleges , Central Institutions and Universities and in linking their courses . |
| 12 | Oloron has always been a successful market town , right from the days when it traded mainly across the mountains , with Aragon . |
| 13 | The construction of levadas to carry irrigation and drinking-water has always been a difficult feat of engineering , and many men have been killed over the years in their construction . |
| 14 | Accounting has always been a closed book to me . ’ |
| 15 | In that sense the Committee has not been a true executive body ; but nor was it designed to be . |
| 16 | The portfolio has always been a nervous holder of Pentos paper , and while the shares have been traded successfully over the years , no fortunes have been made . |
| 17 | My work has always been a visual diary . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Historically sport has broadly been a cohesive force in imperial relations . |
| 21 | Medau has never been a static or sterile form of movement . |
| 22 | Military conscription has always been a useful way of soaking up young people and even though Russia is suffering from a decline in the birthrate the sudden release of a large number of men on to the civilian labour market might be difficult to absorb at a time when Gorbachev is trying to raise productivity . |
| 23 | Historically cleaning has always been a low status occupation . |
| 24 | Phileas Fogg 's Mexican tortilla chips , Thai chicken satay with peanut dip , French prawn and garlic vol-au-vents , and sundry other delicacies from countries where halitosis has never been a social no-no . |
| 25 | Indie distribution has always been a thorny problem . |
| 26 | Despite the notable successes during Mr Dunn 's years in charge , the period has also been a turbulent one with the recession and defence cuts forcing the company to announce hundreds of redundancies . |
| 27 | Entrepreneurship has not been a significant mechanism for social mobility in Latin America . |
| 28 | The town has always been a primary IRA target but this is the first time in many years that it has singled out the commercial centre . |
| 29 | This type of power tool has always been a popular ‘ first buy ’ for d-i-yers wanting a powered saw . |
| 30 | Historically the transport business has always been a male dominated area therefore it may have been expected that the drivers would bite hard on their Yorkie bars and throw their hands up in horror at the prospect of not only having a lady boss , but one who had n't even got a driving licence for a Mini let alone a 38-tonne artic . |