Example sentences of "have [been] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason for the neglect of climatic consideration has been partly the relative youthfulness of the science of urban climatology , and partly the relatively weak communication links that presently exist between climatology and planning . |
| 2 | For three centuries , however , an incident of landownership has been effectively the sole right to shoot deer on that land , either for sport or to prevent damage . |
| 3 | ‘ I think a part of me probably died when I took your job , though it may have been just the settling-down thing . |
| 4 | If she was not , then she must have been almost the only member of Edinburgh political society who managed to know nothing about it — and that in itself would be a comment on her political awareness . |
| 5 | Socially , though , he and Karen , who taught part-time at a girls ' school in Headington , were both from a lower-middle-class , comp/tech background , and it may not have been only the fearsome price of property in the North Oxford heartlands which had put them off moving there . |
| 6 | The hotel is a group of buildings surrounded by gardens and trees in a compound , and we noticed from the start a vaguely British feeling about it — we asked our guide and he told us it had been formerly the British Embassy ( presumably during the years when this had been Chiang Kai-Shek 's capital ) , and had remained in British hands until 1960 or so , I suppose it was a consulate or something . |
| 7 | Well , there had been neither the commanding tone nor the easy insolence from that couple ; and yet , in a way she knew her father was right in his summing up of the gentry . |
| 8 | It had been almost the unofficial waste basket papers were dumped there to be kept but no one had been through it carefully for perhaps a century . |
| 9 | While they had been there the previous year there had been hardly any visitors . |
| 10 | The same number had been there the previous night as well . |
| 11 | Regarded as a liberal , Bessmertnykh , 57 , had been hitherto the Soviet ambassador to the United States , and before that a First Deputy Foreign Minister . |
| 12 | Very properly , they regarded the changes around them with interested caution , and the book leaves the reader with the impression that the recent changes have been primarily the modest addition of audio-visual materials to those items already included for enquiry and project research . |
| 13 | It may though , have been just the right setting for those particular films . |
| 14 | The royals have been virtually the only gossip among their delegations following first the news that Anne and Tim were to marry and then the bombshell that Diana and Charles were to separate . |
| 15 | ‘ The conduct of the workers is deplorable , ’ wrote a French mining manager in 1869 , in the process of ferociously repressing the sort of strike of which Zola 's Germinal has given us a vivid picture , ‘ but one must recognise that they have been merely the savage instruments of agitators ’ . |