Example sentences of "[verb] been a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet there still remains Peter Golding 's interesting finding : in the past ten years ( through such surveys as have been carried out , which are not many and with no great scientific basis ) , there has been a consistent public appreciation of social work , even though the public has equally consistently held social workers in low esteem , below teachers , doctors , and nurses . |
| 2 | Some observers went further and criticised him for seemingly assuming that progress from civil through political to social rights has been a painless historical process . |
| 3 | One obstacle has been the obsessive discretion of their methods of operation , so appropriately reflecting the imperial mystique which inspired them ; another has been a certain scholarly reluctance to welcome the suggestion that this informal study group composed of intellectuals and men of affairs , who almost never held elective office , and who indeed generally despised it , exercised any significant influence at all . |
| 4 | We can not go so far as that ; and I lay it down as fact that there never has been a real complete sceptic . |
| 5 | Either there has been a real fading , or ( more probably ) there has been an error in recording or interpretation , though it is true that Megrez has been suspected of slight variability in modern times . |
| 6 | Milton has suggested then that the extreme diversity of plant foods in tropical forests and the way in which they are distributed there in space and time has been a major selective force in the development of advanced cerebral complexity in certain higher primates . |
| 7 | In particular , while the broad move towards smaller , more powerful pocket-sized computing has continued , there has been a major new entrant into the field of handheld information devices . |
| 8 | It has been a major political and cultural force for a hundred years . |
| 9 | The high cost of capital in Britain has been a major contributory cause over many years to relatively poor investment levels and low productivity in comparison to many of her competitors . |
| 10 | Over the past few decades , in particular , in structuralist anthropology , psychoanalysis , and Marxist theory , there has been a major theoretical effort to challenge the naturalness of the ‘ unitary subject ’ in social theory , to see the individual as a product of social forces , an ‘ ensemble of social relations ’ , rather than as a simple natural unity . |
| 11 | It 's absolutely massive , yes , it 's a national er campaign , so we 've been recruiting people from all kinds of ways ; direct mail , er getting in touch with people who 've done it for us before , er through magazines and so on and the whole thing has been a major logistical undertaking . |
| 12 | This riles the anthropologists because theorizing about the rules governing mating between close kin has been a major anthropological preoccupation for well over a century . |
| 13 | It is now clear to Earth scientists that the extent of ocean water and its depth and shallowness , and the way it periodically invades the land and then retreats , has been a major climatic determinant . |
| 14 | ‘ The quality initiative has been a major driving force , ’ John added . |
| 15 | Melrose comes from a strong rugby family with his elder brother Gregg a member of past Parramatta premiership winning teams while younger brother Brian has been a regular first-grade player with both Parramatta and Western Suburbs . |
| 16 | United States defence spending has been a key driving force behind much of the electronics , telecommunications and computer industries . |
| 17 | Although no official statistics are ever provided , there has been a general downward trend in sales from the peak in 1989 to 1991 when potential buyers were uneasy about the economy and the Gulf War . |
| 18 | This type of relief is of great benefit to the retiring director upon the disposal of his shares in the company , providing he has kept a sufficient percentage holding of shares and has been a full-time working director until this point in time . |
| 19 | Indeed , it is the only occasion on which there has been a substantial national strike in support of any industrial group of workers in Britain . |
| 20 | The concept of a national centre has been a hierarchical mental device used by historians since the Reformation to over-simplify the chaos of diverse local stimuli . |
| 21 | Table 5.1 Volume of international bond issues ( $ billion ) As outlined above , the traditional international bond issue has been a straight fixed rate bond with bullet repayment . |
| 22 | ‘ It has been a long hard season for Nigel , and obviously he 'll be a little bit down after what happened at Wembley , ’ said Bingham . |
| 23 | There is no inconsistency between this result and rational expectations : as far as the private sector is concerned there has been a negative unpredictable random movement in private-sector aggregate demand offset by a positive , unpredictable random movement in the money supply or government spending . |
| 24 | There has been a great black smudge all down the crag ever since … ’ . |
| 25 | There has been a great national exercise , co-ordinated by the careers service nationally and by my Department , to establish the true position . |
| 26 | It is true that there has been a small electoral earthquake in Europe , but not many people have been hurt , and those that were thoroughly deserved it . |
| 27 | " Never mind , " said Eliot , " It has been a pleasant little journey . " |
| 28 | If an admissible statement is identified , the legal adviser may then be required to conduct a more rigorous examination of the subsequent parliamentary proceedings to establish whether the statement has been repeated , varied or withdrawn and a — somewhat less onerous task whether there has been a relevant subsequent amendment to the provision . |
| 29 | Yet throughout her period of office there has been a strong authoritarian tendency . |
| 30 | Byron Rogers ended his lavishly illustrated piece with the words : ‘ This has been a late twentieth-century fable ’ . |