Example sentences of "that have been [art] [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 For some I know this is simply not enough , but as the years go by I find that Chopin 's ultra-refined eloquence of utterance responds more readily to an unforced , more integrated style than the ferocious changeability that has been the very kernel of Chopin playing for the last twenty or thirty years .
4 Yet it is migration to and from rural areas that has been the main concern of rural geographers in the last century , and so attention is now turned to the first major theme of this chapter , rural population change .
5 And then I have n't got space now , but here you 'd have a millionth , six noughts that 'd been a million .
6 God , that had been a powerful shit .
7 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 .
8 It was ancient , a nest of shining metal that had been the first cis-lunar colony , the first man-made world that orbited around mankind 's ancestral home .
9 They looked about them a bit hazily and then at the bleeding half-thing that had been the young boy and scuttled into a corner .
10 It was here , on the ground floor of the east wing , that Louise Taylor had been found , in the same room that had been the royal family 's drawing-room .
11 The protection suit that had been the sacrificial dummy was no longer that .
12 Yes , that had been the happiest time of her life .
13 In this way the autonomy and spontaneity of the individual subject that had been the original goal of enlightenment might be retrieved .
14 She felt lousy , drained by the swings of emotions that had been an integral part of these last — what was it , just eight hours ?
15 The large oval locket that had been an eighteenth-birthday present from her aunt , a gold bracelet , a pair of drop earrings and — she breathed a sigh of relief — her mother 's clip were still in the sandalwood box her parents had given her .
16 This was interesting general confirmation that the element of ‘ serious , content that had been an important part of the deceased Daily Herald and News Chronicle was no longer something the non-quality reader was prepared to pay for in a daily paper .
17 He had been in hospital many years before to have his appendix removed and that had been an uneventful procedure .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 To claim that Britain has nurtured something in a matter ultimately pertaining to worship ( the choral singing of cathedral and chapel ) which is purified and controlled beyond anything possessed by Catholic Europe , which is purged of excessive artifice and rhetoric ( Continental reviewers consistently find English a cappella performances impassive ) and whose excellence gives Britain a mission these are among the ideas that have been the principal source of British national identity since the Act of Union in 1707 and were a foundation stone of English identity long before .
21 In evaluating these arguments it is relevant to distinguish between regimes that have been the constitutional and established government of a state and a regime which is seeking to achieve that position either displacing a former government or to fill a vacuum .
22 Er that 's been a hard old grind though , I can tell you .
23 Do you think that 's been a big thing contributing to there being a=less dances and things then ?
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