Example sentences of "has [adv] been a [adj] and " in BNC.

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1 In the freezing barren icelands of the Arctic north , whale and dolphin meat has long been a traditional and important part of the diet for coastal settlements .
2 Teaching has always been a demanding and shifting job .
3 Protection of the young has ostensibly been a central and ever-present concern in Mrs Whitehouse 's and the NVALA 's campaigns ever since they began .
4 There has also been a growing and restless desire for something new — and a fresh way of making that vital statement .
5 This has undoubtedly been a welcome and popular policy .
6 There has therefore been a steady and persistent ‘ drift from the land ’ of agricultural labour , which is either pushed out by continuing mechanization and the adoption of other labour-saving techniques or lured into other industries by the prospect of higher wages and better conditions of employment .
7 In Church [ 1966 ] 1 QB 59 ( CCA ) , Edmund-Davies J was driven to say that " there has never been a complete and satisfactory definition of manslaughter " .
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