Example sentences of "[noun sg] [been] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has of course been a gradual process but has achieved results ( see figure 2 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Has my wee china been a good boy ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Had the Eradicator been a Taiwanese import , I might have been sceptical . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It had in the end been a spectacular departure ; Phoebe 's final fling with overpowering emotion . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There has in fact been a recent tendency for this type of mobility to decrease in most of the advanced industrial societies . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |