Example sentences of "it has [be] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It never drops below magnitude 10.5 , and at maximum it may rise to 5.9 , so that it is then on the fringe of naked-eye visibility and is easy in any binoculars ; it is distinguished by its intense redness , and it has been nicknamed the Crimson Star .
2 It has been given the lowest efficiency target in the country by the Government 's new Passenger 's Charter .
3 It has been called the quickest personal growth experience you can have .
4 IT HAS been called the victimless crime .
5 Botticelli , works by Piero della Francesca and Andrea Mantegna and the museum 's most famous work , the Profile of a Young Lady by Antonio Pollaiolo , now used as a symbol of the Poldi-Pezzoli and a painting that adorns the face of many Milanese tourist brochures — including one on the city 's museums in which it has been reproduced the wrong way round !
6 But with ‘ decultured ’ Aborigines it has become such a problem that it has been labelled the Black Death .
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