Example sentences of "[coord] it [vb -s] [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She was a very lovely girl and it 's been a great shock to us all , ’ agreed Melissa . |
| 2 | They seem to want to get a snap of me rather than you at the moment , ’ and she said , ‘ Oh , I 've had my innings and it 's been a good innings . ’ |
| 3 | Alwen might have known , for when the club decided to build the original Valley in 1919 they began with 2s 3d in the kitty and it 's been a financial slog ever since . |
| 4 | I 've broadened my football knowledge and it 's been a vital part of my education in the game . |
| 5 | The heartache and suffering over the centuries has made them tough and strong and it 's been a slow evolution . |
| 6 | Hunter had his spleen removed after the Students World Cup last summer , and it 's been a slow process working back to full fitness . |
| 7 | ‘ Although I 'm champion and it 's been a wonderful year I feel I ca n't truly call myself the title holder until I beat Joey on the roads . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ We started because we had so many enquiries about holiday courses , and it has been a tremendous success , ’ says Angela Payne , deputy director of the college . |
| 9 | The Elizabethans certainly did like it , and it has been a popular favourite ever since . |
| 10 | They are very good acts and it has been a tough battle to get through . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ But it has been a great triumph for Hochhauser , Willi . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's easier to manage a team playing in defence because you can see the game developing , but it has been a real problem up front , especially with all the pushing and shoving . |
| 13 | I thought I would go home when I left but it has been a long time . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't usually do that , but it has been a long day . ’ |
| 15 | But it has been a rough 18 months for him and there is still a gauntness about him , even if he does claim he has never felt fitter and that his swing is closer to being ‘ on track ’ than for a long time . |
| 16 | But it has been a busy and peripatetic decade for Taylor , Heglund and their co-workers . |
| 17 | The 26-year-old Shannon clubman , an inspirational figure in Irish rugby 's long overdue renaissance said : ‘ It was great to get the try , but it has been a 15 man effort all along the line . |
| 18 | But it has been a universal feature of modernity that the larger family unit , the so-called ‘ extended ’ family , has given way to a much smaller unit , the ‘ nuclear ’ family . |
| 19 | ‘ But it has been a wonderful year and a wonderful time for me . |
| 20 | But it 's been a marvellous day . ’ |
| 21 | Well that 's no surprise ; but it 's been a long time in coming . |
| 22 | ‘ But it 's been a long day for Sam , so if you do n't mind I 'll send him home . |
| 23 | For the crew this is just another New York flight , but it 's been a rough ride for Virgin Atlantic . |
| 24 | But it 's been a great game to be in , and it has given me some marvellous memories . |
| 25 | But it 's been a slow and confusing process . |
| 26 | Normally I would have completed it well in advance , but it 's been a busy week . |
| 27 | ‘ But it 's been a complicated situation ; we 've had to cancel or reschedule gigs with Cozy 's band because of Brian 's thing , and there was a further complication … |