Example sentences of "this have be a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Comedians Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith went for huge belly laughs as they poked fun at ‘ a small group of people for whom this has been a terrible year — the British tabloid journalists ’ . |
| 32 | I have no doubt this has been a terrible ordeal for you and the verdict is a personal and professional catastrophe . |
| 33 | Now the reason why we 've come together and this has been a recent change and it 's been this year , erm is because there are overlaps without going into deep detail , there are overlaps in our work and we were working together as officer 's anyway , but not as well as we should , so what we decided to do was formally integrate the three teams under the same unit , and we do have regular er internal meetings , management team meetings consisting of John , Pete me and Carol and we so we more co-ordinate the work for all the teams much more systema systematically , that we know what everybody 's doing and that way we believe we can use best use of resources we 've got most effectively . |
| 34 | Until recently this has been a rare occurrence , but increasingly local authorities are devising strategies to involve parents in case conferences , despite professional reluctance in some areas and the genuine problems that this poses . |
| 35 | Connected with this has been a false glamorisation of AIDS work , and a masking of fear with macho posturing . |
| 36 | He says this has been a deliberate policy at UU for some time . |
| 37 | ‘ This has been a magnificent effort . |
| 38 | He said : ‘ As you will appreciate this has been a dreadful ordeal . |
| 39 | This has been a difficult thing to bring about . |
| 40 | This has been a difficult chapter , but it had to go into the book . |
| 41 | However , this has been a costly process and the fall in house prices since 1989 has made it impossible to earn adequate returns from these investments in the short-term . |
| 42 | The result of all this has been a rapid rise in in registered unemployment er nevertheless and a steep rise in in long term unemployment . |
| 43 | ‘ But what has been happening in Darlington has been happening all over the country , this has been a national problem . ’ |
| 44 | This has been a painful time for you . ’ |
| 45 | I realize this has been a horrible thing to happen to you . |
| 46 | ‘ This has been a big exercise , ’ said Crawford , ‘ but it is all nearing completion now and the new systems should be up and running during the next six months . ’ |
| 47 | When I went in for medicine I had the feeling that maybe I would take out an appendix on the kitchen table … now this has been a big disappointment of my life as a GP that whatever I can do , there 's someone else who can do much , much better . |
| 48 | This has been a constant theme of Intifada policy : that we wish to build ( Palestine ) , not to destroy ( Israel ) ; that we wish to achieve freedom ( for our people ) , not to deprive others ( Israelis ) of it ; that we wish to protect and save lives ( ours ) , not to endanger the lives of others ( Israelis ) . |
| 49 | This has been a considerable help to the many students who finance themselves through their HCIMA studies . |
| 50 | This has been a popular hotel with our clients , many of whom regularly return . |
| 51 | So I think it 's easy to see that religion fulfils this civilizing socially controlling role , but of course , this has been a popular theme in sociological writing in the course of the twentieth century , indeed , you could go so far as to say this , it is has become a cliche , in twentieth century social science . |
| 52 | You know , this has been a charming evening , but I must go home . |
| 53 | This has been a favourite route in the past five years when Japanese companies have needed money to build new factories or buy assets abroad . |
| 54 | For many years this has been a favourite game in my circle of friends . |
| 55 | Cazden 's ( 1972 ) extensive analysis of hearing children interacting with parents shows how little parents actually correct children 's immature syntax , yet this has been a particular bulwark of educational approaches to deaf children . |
| 56 | This has been a dependent country . |
| 57 | ‘ For the individual defendants , this has been a harrowing experience . |
| 58 | This has been a recurring function as scientists have repeatedly had to justify the place of science in their culture . |
| 59 | As this has been a recurring theme in the literature , it warrants further attention when the more general question of rural population change is discussed in the following chapter . |
| 60 | In addition to companies generally experiencing the recession within the industry , another aspect of this has been an actual reduction in the number of textile companies in the Grampian area , compared to last year . |