Example sentences of "been [num] of [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Dino had broken down , and it had been one of the best races of the whole season , but then maybe the driver was prejudiced , she told herself sourly . |
2 | His Excellency has been one of the best Ambassadors Spain has ever sent us , and his very dear wife has given him so much support . |
3 | This day should have been one of the best days of her life , the start of her search . |
4 | It 's been one of the best harvests for years . |
5 | Yet parent power has , in the recent past , been one of the central proposals of government . |
6 | This has been one of the central preoccupations of ethnographic police research , especially that inspired by phenomenology and ethnomethodology , and so apposite is policing to this focus that many theoreticians from within phenomenology and ethnomethodology have used it for the application of their ideas ( Cicourel 1968 ; Pollner 1987 ; Sacks 1972 ; Sudnow 1965 ) . |
7 | From its earliest beginnings , the Garden has been one of the central features in Scotland 's scientific history . |
8 | Indeed , tourism has been one of the crucial components in the west 's construction of the east , and a passage from Thomas Cook 's brochure for tours of Egypt and Palestine in 1925 encapsulates the Orientalist attitude : ‘ Native life and manners as seen from the steamer are as quaint a study as can well be imagined . |
9 | ‘ Funnily enough , that 's been one of the nice things about Harwich : people have n't overburdened everything with all my troubles and they 've just been themselves . |
10 | Until Forest reached the final , Wassall had been one of the 16 footballers vying for the title of the Football League 's quickest player in the final of the Rumbelows Sprint Challenge , to be staged immediately before the big match with Manchester United . |
11 | The vacancy was filled first by the Rev. H. Cottam , Rector of St. Mary 's , Crumpsall , who knew the school well , having been one of the Annual Examiners and having stood in during a previous illness , of Hamilton 's in 1875 . |
12 | Someone had to do it : his regiment had been one of the unlucky ones . |
13 | It has been one of the traditional strengths of the structural-functional approach to explore the relationships between beliefs and the social nexus to which they belong , finding meaning not only in cultural form , but also in social content . |
14 | Edinburgh has long been one of the pre-eminent centres of linguistics in Britain . |
15 | Lynch knocked out Peter Kane of Golborne in the thirteenth round , and it was generally agreed that this had been one of the finest contests between flyweight boxers . |
16 | Since rising retirement rates among elderly people have been one of the striking developments in labour market behaviour this century , it seems appropriate to begin by looking at the reasons why the employment status of the elderly population has changed so much over time , and the consequences of this change . |
17 | 1991 in many respects has been one of the toughest years in Hygiene but despite that we will have achieved our budgeted target and increased our profit by 40% over 1990 — a truly excellent performance ! |
18 | Aristos of Salamis in Cyprus , who probably lived in the middle of the third century B.C. , is said by Arrian ( 7.15.5 ) to have been one of the two historians who not only spoke of an embassy of the Romans to Alexander the Great , but made Alexander prophesy the future greatness of Rome , so impressed was he by the envoys . |
19 | As oral amiodarone had no adverse effect on the liver function in our patient , we suggest that it may have been one of the other constituents of the intravenous solution which was responsible for the hepatotoxicity . |
20 | England had been one of the first countries to adopt Gothic designs but was one of the last to relinquish the style which passed into a Perpendicular phase unique to the British Isles . |
21 | As the surface of the primeval Earth cooled , carbon will have been one of the first elements to solidify . |
22 | The Bodrum peninsular , within sight of the Dodecanese islands of Greece , has been one of the first areas of Turkey to attract British tourists . |
23 | The USSR had been one of the first governments to recognise the state of Israel in 1948 , but Soviet support was thereafter thrown behind the Arab cause and behind the Egyptian war effort in particular . |
24 | Earlier the physical journey of the pilgrimage had been one of the chief disciplines by means of which the Cluniacs had managed to reshape the consciousness of Europe . |
25 | Before the final had begun , when Forget had put their chances at about 3–1 against and French president , Phillipe Chatrier believed that they had no more than one in five chance of achieving the prize which had been his ultimate goal from the time that he led the French tennis revolution in 1968 , Forget 's possible vulnerability in moments of such stress had been one of the chief causes for such concern . |
26 | The last was Paul Biya who between 1973 and 1979 , as minister responsible for the economy , had been one of the chief architects of Cameroun 's successful development strategy . |
27 | MICK McCarthy 's scoring exploits with Skibbereen have been one of the outstanding features of the All Ireland Club football championship campaign . |
28 | In the history of English parliaments it was a decisive encounter , although in terms of Sussex where commoners rather than knights or lords died it may well have been one of the familiar disasters around which ordinary life had to continue . |
29 | Ad quodraturn is basically one square laid over another at an angle of 45 degrees , and has been one of the commonest systems employed throughout the world . |
30 | Elected Governor in 1987 , Roemer had previously been one of the southern Democrats in the House of Representatives who rebelled against their party and supported President Reagan 's tax cuts . |