Example sentences of "[num] have [be] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1991 has been a marvellous year for Good Housekeeping and it 's largely thanks to you . |
| 2 | Describing 1989 as ‘ a fantastic year for freedom ’ , Mrs Thatcher said 1979 had been a turning point in history and Conservatives were the pathfinders . |
| 3 | To a considerable extent the Europe of the Six had been a Christian Democrat creation . |
| 4 | The key-fobs sent to each individual member and Group secretary during 1979 have been a great success with many people writing in to the office expressing their appreciation ; it is hoped to produce a further token during out 30th anniversary year . |
| 5 | Dispute may rage as to the effectiveness of this or that particular reform , but US policy 1945–52 has been a major arbiter of two fundamental axes of postwar development — the integration of Japan , economically and politically , into the Western capitalist camp and the extraordinary growth of the Japanese economy . |
| 6 | This is not just of interest to professional politicians or academic specialists ; local government has become front-page news , its leading politicians such as Ken Livingstone , David Blunkett and Derek Hatton have been catapulted to national fame and the local-central government conflict detailed in Chapter 4 has been a major issue in three successive general elections . |
| 7 | Channel 4 has been a constant provocation with its film seasons , Gordon in ‘ Brookside ’ , and ‘ Out On Tuesday ’ , a whole series devoted to showing the world what respectable and cultured citizens we are . |
| 8 | For Hammam , running a club with gates dipping below 5,000 has been a great strain . |
| 9 | YOU do n't have to be the Queen to feel that 1992 has been a rotten year . |
| 10 | 1992 has been a difficult year . |
| 11 | Predictably , the survey showed 1992 to have been a flat year for the UK 's information technology businesses . |
| 12 | Another BTO survey found that 1992 had been a good breeding season for songbirds . |
| 13 | This limit of ten has been a particular handicap in respect of the main classes . |
| 14 | Like 1929 , 1949 had been a bad year for believing that God was on America 's side . |
| 15 | World War I had been a desperate see-saw battle up till its closing days . |
| 16 | Mr. Chairman , nineteen eighty nine has been a significant year for the voluntary sector , and we have witnessed some important developments , including the publication of the White Paper , Charities , a Framework for the Future . |
| 17 | The record of the peace movement in the 1930s has been a favoured weapon in the arsenal of its opponents ever since , and an astonishing amount of nonsense has been talked on the subject . |
| 18 | The last years of Henry VII had been a prosperous period for the port — the average annual sum paid in customs dues from 1504 to 1509 was over £10,000 , and in the early years of Henry VIII a group of merchants had maintained voyages to Brazil . |
| 19 | 1951 had been a good year for Minton . |
| 20 | Before the US Justice Department brought its indictment of the Libyans on 14 November , 1991 , the intelligence community 's working theory was that the bombing of the Boeing 747 had been a co-ordinated effort of Syria , Libya and Iran . |
| 21 | The arrest and interrogation of the IRA suspects in 1971 had been a military operation with only one or two RUC men of low rank involved in a supporting role and under army direction . |
| 22 | For on that Saturday Mr Pozsgay organised a radio interview to tell the world that a party committee working under him had come to the conclusion that 1956 had been a popular uprising , thus ensuring that the terms of reference in Hungarian politics would never be the same again . |
| 23 | SCIENCE FICTION breeds more science fiction and success breeds sequels : these two have been a long time coming Forty years since the first Foundation tale , 14 since 001 : A Space Odyssey — can Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke repeat their successes ? |
| 24 | Since 1979 , when construction work began on the Colinton Bypass , the provision of an outer city bypass for Edinburgh by 1990 has been a key element of Lothian Regional Council 's transportation policy . |
| 25 | For the industry as a whole , however , 1990 had been a bad year , with the Gulf war scuppering much of the expected sales growth , and planned new capacity raising the spectre of price wars and poor returns for manufacturers . |
| 26 | On the negative side press reports indicated that the cost of the programme during the first half of 1990 had been a massive rise in unemployment ( from an official 6,000 at the end of 1989 to 568,000 ) ; a 30 per cent fall in output ; a 25 per cent drop in industrial sales in the first quarter ( in comparison with the same period in 1989 ) ; and an estimated 30 per cent drop in living standards , as real incomes slumped by around 35 per cent and 90 per cent of prices were freed ( following the abolition of subsidies ) to find their market level . |