Example sentences of "[det] have [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They suggest that public expenditure growth has led to a transfer of productive resources from the private sector to a public sector producing largely non-marketed output , and that this has been a major factor in the UK 's poor performance in the post-war period . |
| 32 | → This has been a fascinating contest of wit and wisdom , with both sides stating their cases fully and with great lucidity . |
| 33 | Teachers have had to adapt to the need to allow their pupils this kind of responsibility and self-propulsion , and for those who have been accustomed to telling their pupils in detail how to defeat the examiners on the fateful day , this has been a great change . |
| 34 | ‘ This has been a great evening , ’ she said . |
| 35 | I hope the Lord will forgive me but this has been a great experience and you would n't know Mabel , she is brown in the sun here , it is very nice , but I do n't like the dust . |
| 36 | Occupational Health Physician , Dr Gordon Morris said : ‘ This has been a great effort by Irene . |
| 37 | This has been a great weekend , but it does n't mean anything . ’ |
| 38 | Mr Peter Preston , editor of the Guardian , yesterday said : ‘ This has been a long time coming and there are things in it like the enhanced role for proprietors that I 'm not very keen on , ’ he said . |
| 39 | This has been a long chapter on the work of the Spirit in the individual Christian . |
| 40 | This has been a useful debate on an important subject . |
| 41 | It should be clear to everyone that this has been a genuine and productive consultation . |
| 42 | This has been a serious and well-informed debate , arising , as many hon. Members have said , from one of the most serious and tragic accidents that we have experienced in our generation . |
| 43 | This has been a powerful weapon of Palestinian resistance throughout the history of their occupation and in particular during the past 16 months . |
| 44 | Comedians Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith went for huge belly laughs as they poked fun at ‘ a small group of people for whom this has been a terrible year — the British tabloid journalists ’ . |
| 45 | I have no doubt this has been a terrible ordeal for you and the verdict is a personal and professional catastrophe . |
| 46 | Byron Rogers ended his lavishly illustrated piece with the words : ‘ This has been a late twentieth-century fable ’ . |
| 47 | Now the reason why we 've come together and this has been a recent change and it 's been this year , erm is because there are overlaps without going into deep detail , there are overlaps in our work and we were working together as officer 's anyway , but not as well as we should , so what we decided to do was formally integrate the three teams under the same unit , and we do have regular er internal meetings , management team meetings consisting of John , Pete me and Carol and we so we more co-ordinate the work for all the teams much more systema systematically , that we know what everybody 's doing and that way we believe we can use best use of resources we 've got most effectively . |
| 48 | Until recently this has been a rare occurrence , but increasingly local authorities are devising strategies to involve parents in case conferences , despite professional reluctance in some areas and the genuine problems that this poses . |
| 49 | Connected with this has been a false glamorisation of AIDS work , and a masking of fear with macho posturing . |
| 50 | He says this has been a deliberate policy at UU for some time . |
| 51 | ‘ This has been a magnificent effort . |
| 52 | He said : ‘ As you will appreciate this has been a dreadful ordeal . |
| 53 | This has been a difficult thing to bring about . |
| 54 | This has been a difficult chapter , but it had to go into the book . |
| 55 | However , this has been a costly process and the fall in house prices since 1989 has made it impossible to earn adequate returns from these investments in the short-term . |
| 56 | The result of all this has been a rapid rise in in registered unemployment er nevertheless and a steep rise in in long term unemployment . |
| 57 | ‘ But what has been happening in Darlington has been happening all over the country , this has been a national problem . ’ |
| 58 | This has been a painful time for you . ’ |
| 59 | This has been a brief and generalised account of some of the main causes of mental handicap , which has deliberately stayed clear of describing the types of handicaps in obscure medical terms or dwelling on the complex nature of their origin . |
| 60 | This has been a brief but interesting debate . |