Example sentences of "[noun sg] has [adv] been a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For women , communism has always been a double-edged sword . |
| 2 | In the same way , Islam has always been an urban faith , ill at ease with the wilderness ; its civilization has always flourished most successfully in the labyrinths of the ancient bazaar towns of the East . |
| 3 | Letter-writing has often been an effective means of direction and Paul made the most of it . |
| 4 | Social responsibility has never been a Greek characteristic . |
| 5 | Nat West says that late payment has recently been a significant factor in the demand for bank finance . |
| 6 | Radar has also been a useful probe of other planets . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | However , military necessity has always been a dangerous principle when counterposed to the principle of humanitarian limitation of the means of warfare . |
| 10 | Teaching has always been a demanding and shifting job . |
| 11 | Do I discern that skating has not been a frequent pleasure in these parts ? ’ |
| 12 | Your own , personalized weight control programme has not been a sudden thing but has evolved over a long period of time . |
| 13 | The programme has also been a useful catalyst to closer collaboration between FE colleges , Central Institutions and Universities and in linking their courses . |
| 14 | Oloron has always been a successful market town , right from the days when it traded mainly across the mountains , with Aragon . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Accounting has always been a closed book to me . ’ |
| 17 | Although climatic changes undoubtedly occurred during the post-glacial , it appears that the principal determinants of regional vegetational change in the Outer Hebrides have been natural soil changes , with widespread leaching , podsolisation , and bog development beginning at about 7000 B.P. From about 5000 B.P. or even earlier ( Bohnke , 1988 ) , human influence has also been an important factor . |
| 18 | In that sense the Committee has not been a true executive body ; but nor was it designed to be . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | My work has always been a visual diary . |
| 22 | The air campaign has not been an unqualified success in any of its missions . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 25 | Historically sport has broadly been a cohesive force in imperial relations . |
| 26 | Medau has never been a static or sterile form of movement . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Historically cleaning has always been a low status occupation . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Indie distribution has always been a thorny problem . |