Example sentences of "it have been [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside the High Court after the award of £50,000 damages plus costs , the 59-year-old happily married father of three said : ‘ It has been three-and-a-half years of absolute hell . ’ |
| 2 | WE hear that there was a big attendance at the first meeting of the new Basingstoke branch of the League Against Cruel Sports , when the League 's information officer , Kevin Flack , told them : ‘ I believe that most people are opposed to hunting but it has been recent antics of the Quorn Hunt and publicity from the MacNamara Bill that has convinced them that something has to be done to put an end to their activities . ’ |
| 3 | With Eliette von Karajan it has been thirty years of family life , with two daughters , Isabel and Arabel . |
| 4 | It has been this policy of screening tenants over the decades before the main sale of council houses was pushed through by the Government that has resulted in the buying of houses largely on the best estates , and has helped to reinforce the emergence of the ghetto in many areas of Britain . |
| 5 | As was noted above , it has been this neglect of the loan period factor ( and consequent confusion between APR and actual money cost of credit ) which has in practice proved an obstacle to Americans using their growing awareness of APRs to shop more discriminatingly for credit . |
| 6 | It had been one way of making firms more competitive . |
| 7 | Christ , it had been one hell of a thrash , an absolute bloody classic . |
| 8 | ‘ And it 's been six hours of torment for me . |
| 9 | It 's been another year of achievement for the society the panto Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves was a great success and gave a great start to the year . |
| 10 | It 's been another day of unwanted exposure for the Duchess of York with yet more holiday snaps emblazoned across the tabloids . |
| 11 | I think the difference there is that we 're talking about we 're not talking inners and outers there , we 're talking about or certainly in terms of the consultation that we 've undertaken on the western route , it 's been different variations of a western route , there is n't an equivalent of a of an inner route for the for the western side . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's been wonderful weather of late , has n't it ? |
| 13 | To be honest it 's been seven months of hell . |
| 14 | Yeah but I mean the times I 've seen her it 's been this end of town rather than that end of town . |
| 15 | If it 's been re-registered sort of thing , so there 's a big line in cars all . |