Example sentences of "it have [been] a [adj] [coord] " in BNC.
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1 | It has been a long and widely held assumption that crime is very much more frequent among those of low social status . |
2 | It has been a long and winding road for the much-travelled Quinn to achieve fully-fledged Premier League status , even though his career record is better than a goal every two games . |
3 | ‘ It has been a good and very practical learning experience for the class . ’ |
4 | ‘ It has been a bad and black week . |
5 | But it has been a busy and peripatetic decade for Taylor , Heglund and their co-workers . |
6 | But for both men it had been a spectacular and formative trip . |
7 | It had been a deep and tub-like pram , and they had used it to convey her from place to place long after she had been of an age to be confined in such a vehicle . |
8 | It had been a hot and sultry summer . |
9 | Billie was fast asleep ; it had been a long and boring trip for someone crammed in the back . |
10 | It had been a long and exhausting day , and she had to admit that she felt as tired as he looked . |
11 | It had been a long and eventful day . |
12 | It had been a dark and rainy day . |
13 | All in all it had been a busy but constructive evening 's work . |
14 | It had been a brief and unsatisfactory encounter . |
15 | It had been a wet and unpleasant day , with sleet threatening , but none the worse for their purposes perhaps . |
16 | It had been a frightening and humiliating experience . |
17 | It had been an uncomfortable and disturbing sensation and he was still wondering whether it had n't been only the incense , the spring evening , and nostalgia for his boyhood . |
18 | For Mr Wolski it had been an exciting but strange time . |
19 | National Railway Museum Curator of Operations Ray Towell , who has been with ‘ City of Truro ’ during most of the current tour , commented : ‘ It 's been a hectic and very pleasant few weeks to date but the welcome we 've had everywhere has been magnificent . |
20 | It 's been a difficult and painful week for Ron Letts ' family . |
21 | But it 's been a slow and confusing process . |
22 | It 's been a tough and bruising campaign , with the backgrounds of both candidates coming under intense scrutiny . |
23 | It 's been a wonderful and rewarding 14 years generating an ever-widening circle of friends and customers , and I ca n't recall a refund . |