Example sentences of "[art] [adj] have [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | To a considerable extent the Europe of the Six had been a Christian Democrat creation . |
| 2 | However , on Oct. 6 following talks on the same day with Sirimavo Bandaranaike , the leader of the opposition Sri Lanka Freedom Party ( SLFP ) , President Ranasinghe Premadasa agreed to consider the formation of an interim all-party administration and the holding of a referendum on the country 's executive presidential system ; the latter had been a major demand of the SLFP , which opposed the concept of the executive presidency . |
| 3 | A fine , family-run hotel , the Majestic has been a favourite with Citalia customers for over 25 years , enjoying a privileged position close to the centre of the resort on its own sandy beach . |
| 4 | The nine-year-old has been a fine servant for trainer David Nicholson and , although a few pounds below the very best over two miles , he picks up enough prize-money each year to comfortably pay his oats bill . |
| 5 | The correlation of old marine terraces and various phases in the Pleistocene has been a particularly fruitful source of disagreement among glacial geologists and geomorphologists . |
| 6 | So what you 're saying is that Cabinet government in the eighties has been a matter of trench warfare with exchanges conducted in the shape of mortar fire . |
| 7 | Their plans were strategic in the sense that an idealized future ( say 20 years hence ) was projected which would accommodate all assumptions as to likely change : there would be no great population growth ( why should there be ? — the 1930s had been a decade of population stagnation , if not decline ) ; inter-war regional drift would be halted ; the housing shortage would be made good ; the necessary population redistributions would be implemented , so reducing densities to an acceptable level in the inner districts ; areas for suburban expansion would be identified and selected against a background of open space and protected countryside ; lines for improved road communication would be safeguarded and the commercial areas , particularly town centres , would be better defined and made architectural show-pieces . |
| 8 | The record of the peace movement in the 1930s has been a favoured weapon in the arsenal of its opponents ever since , and an astonishing amount of nonsense has been talked on the subject . |
| 9 | The long birdie putt Beck had earlier holed for an eagle three at the 13th had been a turning point , but for Norman , who does not normally play the week before the Masters , this must have also given him encouragement . |
| 10 | There , funerals for the martyred and the massacred have been a daily fact of life . |
| 11 | Liam Miller , the producer , sounded a cautious note later , saying the spectacular had been a £2.5 million operation involving a lot of time and resources . |
| 12 | The 1980s has been a decade of three-party politics . |
| 13 | The 1980s have been a period of considerable and long-overdue change . |
| 14 | The 1980s have been a decade of poverty for the poorly paid , with almost two out of every five full-time workers in Britain — nearly six million in all — now earning wages below the decency threshold set by the Council of Europe , the Low Pay unit says ( writes Larry Elliott ) . |