Example sentences of "that [noun] have been a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This last year all these outgoings have meant that fundraising has been a real necessity and to try to relieve that pressure , the committee have decided to raise the subs . |
| 2 | Oh is , looking back , do you think that Harlow 's been a successful project ? |
| 3 | Functionalists emphasise that inequality has been a prominent feature of past human societies and continues to be so in contemporary societies of West and East . |
| 4 | Gen. Kassem asserted that Kuwait had been an integral component of the southern Iraqi province of Basra under Ottoman rule and that Iraq had succeeded to Turkish territorial sovereignty over Basra with the dissolution of the Ottoman empire after the First World War . |
| 5 | There was in fact no shortage of evidence , even by those that were opposed to him , that Stalin had been an outstanding leader ( she quoted Winston Churchill to this effect , as well as de Gaulle and others ) . |
| 6 | Mr Leach had told the court that Curtis had been a staunch supporter of the anti-smoking campaign and that his father had died from lung cancer . |
| 7 | It was revealed that Spiro had been a middle man between the CIA and MI6 over the release of Beirut hostages including Terry Waite and John McCarthy . |
| 8 | We also learn from the historical evidence that gender has been an important source of variation in people 's experience of financial support within families . |
| 9 | Zeta 's failure to produce genuine thermonuclear neutrons , together with the implications of that failure , led to adverse public reaction and gave the impression that Zeta had been a complete failure . |
| 10 | Their discovery showed that Rousay had been an important centre of power for the Vikings . |
| 11 | Rory , secretly , did not believe it , he held to his mother 's bitter view that Michael had been a feckless drunk , another feckless Irish drunk , who had died at the wheel of his car while returning from a bout of cross-border carousing in Dundalk . |
| 12 | ‘ Then you 'll also know that Zimbala has been a one-party state since it was granted independence by the French forty-five years ago . ’ |