Example sentences of "[pron] has [adv] [been] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Literally thousands of people have benefited form Nancy 's instruction and she has perhaps been one of the greatest advocates of the Sunday Painter school , encouraging an increase in the popularity of painting as a pastime for people of all ages and from all walks of life . |
| 2 | Even so , there has already been one triumph : inflation fell to 6% in the year to the third quarter , the lowest rate for 18 years apart from a brief spell in 1984–85 . |
| 3 | Unified control to eliminate any danger of overlapping , for which there has already been one unfortunate instance . |
| 4 | There has only been one previous self-build scheme in Middlesbrough Paddock Wood in Coulby Newham , completed in the early Eighties . |
| 5 | There has always been one factor which has dominated the convictions of those who have sought to establish a religion , or its equivalent under whatever name . |
| 6 | You know , in all the time I 've worked here there has never been one single incidence of staff theft . |
| 7 | It has long been one of the curiosities of our political history that the previous all-time record was set by a party that actually lost the election , Clement Attlee 's Labour Party in 1951 . |
| 8 | It has always been one of those comedies built on character and situation . |
| 9 | It has always been one of my regrets that life did not make it possible for me to know this quiet , strong artist and teacher better . |
| 10 | Sir , it has always been one of my principles that planning , for its acceptance , depends on public understanding . |
| 11 | After death the heart becomes a pyramid ( it has always been one of the wonders of the world ) ; but even in life the heart was never heart-shaped . |
| 12 | The continued dominance of City and Civil Service elites has often been seen as a barrier to dynamism in British industry ; in fact , it has merely been one aspect of a secure and integrated dominant class , linked by kinship , ownership of wealth and distinctive patterns of education . |
| 13 | Sir , — Now that the dust has finally settled on this election we may pause to reflect on what has undoubtedly been one of the dirtiest , and most depressing of exercises in political chicanery . |