Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] been a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , examined in the clear light of another day , I decided you 'd felt lousy about cheating on Simon and that dismissing the afternoon had been a get-out . ’ |
| 2 | Emily felt hurt and betrayed by a close friend who had borrowed a considerable sum of money towards down-payment on a house and then , when Emily eventually enquired about repayment , angrily claimed that she thought the money had been a gift . |
| 3 | The major demographic change occurring in recent decades within the cities has been a decline in absolute population levels ( Redfern , 1982 ; Champion , Coombes and Openshaw , 1983 ) . |
| 4 | The Cuban leader said the election had been a success in the face of intense pressure from the United States , hostile radio stations run by Cuban exiles in the US had called on Cubans to abstain or spoil their votes . |
| 5 | Common to much of the literature has been a notion … that these kids — and many others like them — have been trying to ‘ recover magically ’ territory , both physical and cultural , that they have lost and to appropriate in the same way territory that has never been theirs . |
| 6 | A consequence of the recession has been a reduction of just over six per cent in the 5,000 worldwide workforce in the past 12 months . |
| 7 | Presumably once the building had been a shepherd 's hut , even his home perhaps , but it was long derelict . |
| 8 | His namesake the admiral had been a regicide and there may have been an element of deliberate misidentification among the more ‘ blimpish ’ Royalist MPs . |
| 9 | What he should also have realized was that , although the play had been a flop , The Wit To Woo demonstrated to Ken that the producer was a man to be trusted . |
| 10 | The play has been a year in the making . |
| 11 | As far as she was concerned , the tea had been a success . |
| 12 | Then she walked to the door , and tried to open it , just in case the sound of the key had been a figment of her over-active imagination . |
| 13 | The labour had been a nightmare . |
| 14 | The judge rejected suggestions that the riot had been a protest against conditions in the Victorian jail . |
| 15 | The social scientist charged with monitoring and evaluating the project ( Goodman 1979 ) refused to answer the question as to whether or not the experiment had been a success , asserting that this was the wrong question . |
| 16 | However , economists judged the experiment to have been a failure , as the coupons , for a total of 12,000 million roubles , were insufficient , encouraging shopkeepers to raise prices and thus fuelling inflation . |
| 17 | The interview had been a mess . |
| 18 | The eyes of the man in the doorway had been a reawakening for Sara . |
| 19 | The explosive had been a two-ounce wafer of Semtex , composed of 45 per cent Penta Tetro Ether Nitrate ( or PETN ) , 45 per cent RDX and 10 per cent plasticizer . |
| 20 | The result had been a succession of balance of payments crises , deflationary countermeasures at home , and consequent interruptions to economic growth . |
| 21 | The result has been a consolidation of their power as men , over heterosexual women and lesbians , within the work , and the organization . |
| 22 | The result has been a reduction in party funds , which have been almost exclusively derived from membership , of about 15 per cent . |
| 23 | The result has been a PR triumph for BP , and a commercial success for the partners . |
| 24 | The result has been a halving of sulphur dioxide emissions in the flue gases . . |
| 25 | The result has been a saving on energy of Aus$90,000 a year and a sharp reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide . . |
| 26 | The result has been a compression of childbearing into ages 22–30 to a degree never seen before ; about two-thirds of all births ( figure 4.10 ) . |
| 27 | The result has been a theory to explain what would in any earlier age have been inexplicable : the birth of the universe . |
| 28 | The result has been a duplication of administrative personnel in a society that is ‘ already exhausted by the increase in its apparatus of officials ’ . |
| 29 | The result has been a shambles . |
| 30 | The students conducted a market research campaign for suggestions about environmental improvements , and the result has been a wildlife garden and a flower and bird project . |