Example sentences of "[noun] been a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Youth unemployment has since the mid-1970s been a central fact or a central fear of many young people , and has affected many others . |
| 2 | This has of course been a gradual process but has achieved results ( see figure 2 ) . |
| 3 | It was a challenge ; not for nothing had Mrs Lorimer been a formidable ARP warden in the war , and later a JP . |
| 4 | Durability has at all times been a main attribute of the materials held in highest regard and it is precisely the most durable things that have most chance of surviving . |
| 5 | Falcone , 53 , himself a Sicilian , had in recent years been a leading figure in the Italian state 's campaign against the criminal activities of the Sicilian Mafia . |
| 6 | At the NOTTINGHAM PLAYHOUSE , stimulating repertoire enjoys international acclaim and the ALBERT HALL has for many years been a popular venue for classical concerts . |
| 7 | In fact , he believes that the formation of C&P has in the event been a powerful factor in enabling research to be rationalized throughout the whole ICI Group . |
| 8 | Has my wee china been a good boy ? |
| 9 | Had the Tunguska object been a 15-Mton comet , far less surface destruction would have resulted , because of the much higher altitude of the airburst . |
| 10 | The 1983-87 period has in some ways been a wasted opportunity paradoxically perhaps , a period of consolidation between bursts of radical change . |
| 11 | Had the Eradicator been a Taiwanese import , I might have been sceptical . |
| 12 | Leibniz would have been little more than an impressionable fool in Kant 's eyes had the caterpillar that he treated with such consideration been a mere thing . |
| 13 | It had in the end been a spectacular departure ; Phoebe 's final fling with overpowering emotion . |
| 14 | Had the above account been a linguistic account , an explanation of the meaning of ‘ legitimate authority ’ , it would have followed that anyone who believes of a person that he has legitimate authority believes that that person satisfies the condition set by the justification thesis . |
| 15 | ‘ Hess been a bad gorilla . ’ |
| 16 | They argued that since there seemed to be infinitely more Friedmann-like models without a big bang singularity than there were with one , we should conclude that there had not in reality been a big bang . |
| 17 | Compensatory payments have without doubt been a major stimulus to increasing stocking levels on existing land ( including woodlands ) and to agriculturally improve land to provide a greater stocking potential . |
| 18 | The contrast between this inactivity and the action which would have been taken had the injured individual been a young child , was a stark one . |
| 19 | Captain America 's main man EUGENE KELLY got in touch to tell us the latest development , namely the withdrawing of the sleeve , and added : ‘ I have for a long time been a devoted customer of C&A and will only wear socks and pants with the C&A label . |
| 20 | There has in fact been a recent tendency for this type of mobility to decrease in most of the advanced industrial societies . |
| 21 | At the same time , education , which had always in fact been a political matter , if only because of the vast sums of public money spent on it , became increasingly and more obviously political because of the politicization of local government . |
| 22 | There has in fact been a good deal of legal commentary in recent months as to the effectiveness of warranties , but it would be advisable for a tenant to take up warranties ( in a standard and acceptable form ) if they are available . |
| 23 | The establishment of the UK clearinghouse was one response to this but the British Library Research and Development Department itself , through its deliberations on its programme of research and development in user education , has to some extent been a co-ordinating influence , though with a low profile . |
| 24 | It would have made no difference to the example below had the aggrieved party been a German company with a branch in France tendering for factory space . |