Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] been a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically , it 's the simplicity that has been a major headache for distributors Oak Marketing . |
| 2 | This gives women equal access to a pavilion that has been a male preserve for 125 years and leaves Lord 's as English cricket 's last bastion of discrimination . |
| 3 | And then I have n't got space now , but here you 'd have a millionth , six noughts that 'd been a million . |
| 4 | God , that had been a powerful shit . |
| 5 | He had not had a woman for weeks — not since that last trip to the Wilds — and that had been a sing-song girl , all artifice and expertise . |
| 6 | The final set of arguments emphasises the limited leadership qualities and organisational deficiencies that have been a historic feature of the extreme right in Great Britain . |
| 7 | Property might seem to be an unusual investment for pension funds given its volatile nature , but its inclusion can be defended on the grounds of past long-term returns that have been a good hedge against inflation . |
| 8 | Er that 's been a hard old grind though , I can tell you . |
| 9 | Do you think that 's been a big thing contributing to there being a=less dances and things then ? |
| 10 | Over the last 30 years , research has become big business , and has been a key element in the formation of new academic disciplines . |
| 11 | After bodyguard work he turned to full time military journalism in 1985 ; and has been a frequent and major contributor to the French magazine RAIDS . |
| 12 | He was Isaac Woolfson Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Oxford from 1966 to 1992. was part-time chairman of AEA from 1982 to 1984 and has been a part-time member since then . |
| 13 | The Washington attorney was a close friend and adviser to Guinness 's former chairman , Ernest Saunders , and has been a major target of the SFO 's investigation of the corporate scandal . |
| 14 | The terminal has expanded its storage capacity five-fold since its initial inauguration and has been a major and consistent profit earner in the intervening years . |
| 15 | You will no doubt be familiar with the Tesco Healthy Eating campaign which started in 1985 and has been a major success . |
| 16 | Stainrod has scored six goals from just five starts and has been a major influence in Dundee 's recent run of good form . |
| 17 | Mr Canavan , who is fighting for re-election as MP for Falkirk West and has been a prominent member of PLCND , said : ‘ I have always been proud to be a member of CND and will continue to campaign vigorously for unilateral nuclear disarmament within the Labour Party . |
| 18 | Self taught , Albert , who is a relative of George Barron , of BBC TV 's Beechgrove Garden fame , has been tending the gardens for 16 years and has been a consistent winner in the gardens competition over the years . |
| 19 | He underwent three operations on the long haul back to fitness and has been a helpless onlooker as Leeds floundered in their title defence . |
| 20 | Finally , the Gatwick Express service between London ( Victoria ) and Gatwick Airport was launched by InterCity in May 1984 and has been a great success . |
| 21 | Under normal circumstances small favours of this type could be obtained by a politician with government connections , and it was only circumstances of a temporary nature which made job provision difficult for Scots politicians , such as the effective block which appeared in 1737 following the lynching of an officer of the City Guard of Edinburgh , when as a writer remarked , the hanging of Captain Porteous ‘ sticks vastly in his majesties stomach and has been a great detriment to our countray-men in getting any thing done ’ . |
| 22 | There is and has been a great temptation to design many types of record sheets which involve complex systems of ticks , crosses and shadings to represent attainment . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ He is a decent fellow , and has been a good skipper . |
| 25 | The last-swimming oceanic Dall 's porpoise is a popular food item and has been a favourite target of Japanese harpoons in the province of Iwate ( north-eastern Honshu ) for many years . |
| 26 | As well as years of service to the R Y A , Scot di R Y A Scotland , Staveley has twice served in the R Y A Council and has been a distinguished member of the Yacht Racing Divisional Committee . |
| 27 | Isabel has worked with great energy for the Society , and has been a much-welcomed participant and calm presence at many Society functions . |
| 28 | In 1932–3 it was extended by a further 80m and has been a popular promenade for tourists and Madeirans ever since , as well as a good place from which to observe the activity in the harbour and marina . |
| 29 | He could remember how , after moving out here and having been a city-dweller all of his life , he 'd come to realise that he 'd never known what true darkness was ; even away from houses and street lighting there had always been a faint , reflected amber cast to the sky , but here there was nothing . |
| 30 | MacDonald also had condemned the Lloyd George coalition as corrupt and unprincipled and had been a major beneficiary of its fall . |