Example sentences of "this have [adv] [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Together with the logging , this has already been a contributory factor in a series of floods , including ones in Kompong Speu and Kampot provinces which caused $150 million worth of damage . |
| 2 | Analysing the situation on Lakeland rhyolite more closely , I think this has probably been a false fear . |
| 3 | ‘ This has always been a nice close . |
| 4 | This has always been a great mystery to me because I remember seeing photographs of my father in hospital uniform wearing sergeant 's stripes ( which I understand was the practice then ) and later , after the war , he was a corporal . |
| 5 | This has sometimes been a serious issue of contention during the UK Government 's privatization programme of the eighties . |
| 6 | Returning Edward the proofs of his book , Helen commented : ‘ This has indeed been a fair spring for us , though they had made it a winter . |
| 7 | This has undoubtedly been a welcome and popular policy . |
| 8 | This had truly been a bewitching week , Auguste reflected . |
| 9 | Breeze saw that they were her favourite kind , and remembered then that this had always been a little ritual — chocolates on the first night of the holidays . |