Example sentences of "it [verb] been a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It has been a long hard season for Nigel , and obviously he 'll be a little bit down after what happened at Wembley , ’ said Bingham . |
| 2 | It has been a major political and cultural force for a hundred years . |
| 3 | Apart from the obvious importance of this relationship on the world stage , it has been a decisive shaping influence on the nature of Japan herself . |
| 4 | " Never mind , " said Eliot , " It has been a pleasant little journey . " |
| 5 | People not familiar with Cheltenham often assume that it has been a large bustling town for a long time . |
| 6 | As we shall see in the following chapter , mechanization has not been the only process responsible for this , but by enabling the farmer to de-bureaucratize his farm and place greater emphasis on developing the personal loyalty of his workforce rather than relying upon regulations and sanctions , it has been an important contributory factor . |
| 7 | I affirm it to have been a fine active stock of books which ought to be available in any good library service … |
| 8 | He found it was too large to be caused by a gravitational field : if it had been a gravitational red shift , the object would have to be so massive and so near to us that it would disturb the orbits of planets in the Solar System . |
| 9 | But up to then it had been a right mild winter . |
| 10 | It had been a long hot day on the farm where I help my father with his large dairy herd . |
| 11 | It had been a glorious sunny day and he had wakened up in the morning rather early for him in those days . |
| 12 | Twenty years ago , it had been a cosy Victorian hostelry , seldom visited except by its regulars , with an open fire in winter and horse brasses polished to whiteness hung against the black beams . |
| 13 | It was atypical of most provincial towns in that it had been a thriving industrial centre for some time , and was taking off again after the disruption caused by the Civil War . |
| 14 | Kerr reported on the visit at the July meeting of the Council , drawing attention to ‘ the adverse criticisms contained in this report ’ , emphasizing that it had been a strong visiting party , and that it had reached its conclusions unanimously . |
| 15 | It had been a warm autumnal day in early October and she , Alex and her father were working in the garden . |
| 16 | It had been a fair old fitness test . |
| 17 | It had been a pretty little creature , it had looked quiet and gentle and good like Oliver , but as soon as you went near it , it had turned into a clawing , spitting bundle of hate . |
| 18 | His parents had died as prisoners of the Japanese in Singapore , and it had been a further great grief to Alicia Lockwood when her beloved nephew had been killed in the desert in 1942 a few weeks after Sara was born . |
| 19 | From then on it had been a funny old kind of a day . |
| 20 | It was sad coming back alone to an empty house , Ianthe thought , but how much worse if it had been a single furnished room , like poor Miss Grimes . |
| 21 | It had been an horrific triple crash that had left two drivers dead , and the newsreel of that dreadful moment had shown a blazing object being catapulted clear of the wreckage . |
| 22 | It 's been a long old year . |
| 23 | Leave it all till Monday Lynda , it 's been a long hard week . |
| 24 | So , it 's been a nice warm day has it ? |
| 25 | ‘ It 's been a funny old job , ’ said Denise , and blew her nose . |
| 26 | It 's been a multi layered conference . |