Example sentences of "have [adv] [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now opera has rarely been a naturalistic medium , and never an understated one . |
| 2 | The last two summers have been very hot and dry , although this summer has luckily been a great deal better . |
| 3 | There has obviously been a conscious decision and determination on his part to make his life a fulfilment of prophetic utterance . |
| 4 | Beyond this , however , its origin has hitherto been an insoluble problem : the explicit evidence of the ancients is notoriously inadequate and various different theories have been constructed from it . |
| 5 | The Treaty brings about the formal transformation of what has hitherto been an Economic Community into a Union which is mandated to act in many areas on behalf of its own citizens , and to claim their allegiance . |
| 6 | It has all been a fantastic myth exploded by grim reality . |
| 7 | Kate Greenaway has long been a firm favourite among collectors who will pay £2,000-£3,000 for a collection of her Almanacks and £30-£50 for most single specimens . |
| 8 | The numbers of acute beds that a service needs has long been a contentious issue . |
| 9 | The examination system has long been a serious bone of contention in this country . |
| 10 | In the freezing barren icelands of the Arctic north , whale and dolphin meat has long been a traditional and important part of the diet for coastal settlements . |
| 11 | Transport of raw materials for energy use has long been a major sector in marine commerce but coal in particular has been the dominant single energy cargo . |
| 12 | ICI has long been a major supplier of surfactants , which are the active ingredient in detergents . |
| 13 | However , the escape from spontaneity has long been a philosophical ideal , at its most intransigent in Sartre 's Being and nothingness , which treats even emotion as a matter of choice , to the point of denying the distinction between genuine and willed feeling . |
| 14 | For the sake of those members who are not local I will briefly explain that the More family has long been a prominent one in this area . |
| 15 | D Goldstein of Staravia Ltd , Ascot , who has long been a good friend of the aircraft preservation movement , offered a range of instruments . |
| 16 | Whereas Mr Orlando has long been a troublesome hero for his party , Mr Segni does not look like a troublemaker . |
| 17 | This , too , is unlikely , for Mr Morita has long been a noisy critic of America and was saying nothing new . |
| 18 | While DEC Europe has long been a strong advocate for X.desktop , DEC US originally opted for the rival Visix Looking Glass product ( UX No 306 ) , and more recently began evaluating HP 's Visual User Environment ( UX No 377 ) . |
| 19 | There has long been a hidden agenda in foreign language teaching which included the notion that the ultimate aim was to create bilinguals in the foreign and mother tongues . |
| 20 | The mere business of shifting passengers has long been a dreary distraction . |
| 21 | There has long been a lucrative private market in econometric models and the predictions that arise from them : nowadays these predictions come free of charge in the daily media prognostications of the specialist forecasters . |
| 22 | The University has long been a leading centre for research in this field , and just over a year ago Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre ( EPCC ) was established to focus further on these issues . |
| 23 | Non-evaluative criticism , as propounded by the successive Merton professors , Gardner and Carey , has long been a popular ideal at Oxford . |
| 24 | Igls has long been a popular summer haunt of the Austrians , and therefore has much to offer the visitor . |
| 25 | But dance has long been a popular option at Haughton where teacher Jenny Ruston says its hard to find the time to meet all the demand from boys and girls . |
| 26 | The contamination of clay bodies by minute metallic elements has long been a recurring nightmare for potters despite stringent efforts to eradicate the ‘ disease ’ . |
| 27 | HOARDING clothes has long been a British vice . |
| 28 | There has long been an unspoken consensus across the party spectrum that challenging the system would be to enter a political minefield . |
| 29 | As I mentioned earlier , the saithe or coalfish Gadus virens has long been an important fish in Shetland , the surface-shoaling immatures being utilised by many sea-birds . |
| 30 | There has thus been a significant debate about the extent to which the state still dominates in international relations . |