Example sentences of "what [verb] [adv] been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This latest news on the job front adds to what has already been a good year for the town . ’ |
| 2 | Oil will remain the major fuel but the most significant growth will be in gas consumption as more use is made of what has traditionally been a vastly abundant and wasted fuel . |
| 3 | This will be an important and helpful clarification of what has recently been a vexed issue , and will undoubtedly have a bearing on pre-school provision . |
| 4 | It is a large church for what has always been a small village — perhaps the work of some medieval lord of the manor intent on impressing the neighbouring gentry . |
| 5 | In what has always been a loose network , the international conference , held every 18 months or so since the mid' 70s , has always been most prominent in publicising the cause of action research . |
| 6 | Regeling , who was an Exeter rider last season , showed he had lost none of his flair for what has always been a happy hunting ground for him , top scoring for his new club . |
| 7 | He was philosophical , not to say laid back about the inconvenience of being called out unnecessarily at the end of what had already been a long day . |
| 8 | Not only does she execute embroideries , but designs them too — thereby encroaching on what had formerly been a male preserve . |
| 9 | Politically , it was essential last summer to distance the government from what had clearly been a shabby episode . |
| 10 | The April 19 Movement ( M-19 ) won 19 seats , marking a clear breakthrough in what had historically been a two-party system dominated by the PL and the PSC . |
| 11 | This was reflected in a loosening of what had traditionally been a strong correlation between landownership and civil and military office , especially at the highest level . |
| 12 | What had previously been a zero sum game had suddenly , because of a piece of news from the outside world , become a nonzero sum game . |
| 13 | The sense of involvement has grown considerably and what had previously been a relatively isolated job has now become increasingly rich . |
| 14 | What had previously been a safety valve for German economic change now assumed the aspect of a threat to an already shaken German identity and sense of purpose in the world . |
| 15 | What had previously been a two-family , Buddhist hamlet , was now an unsightly army compound . |
| 16 | In retrospect , what Essays in Criticism seems to have represented was the institutional absorption after the War of the so-called " critical revolution " of the interwar period , and the professionalisation of what had previously been a more or less oppositional movement within the academy . |
| 17 | The new Arrangements are very similar to the 1988 Scheme , the main , and welcome , change being the removal of the lower tier in what had previously been a two-tier system for remuneration for advice at police stations : a solicitor could undertake up to £90 of work , extendable retrospectively , where the client was in custody for an arrestable offence , but only up to £50 ( non-extendable ) otherwise . |
| 18 | And she went on to explain to him how they would now have to hasten what had previously been a very leisure long-term affair , at least in her mind . |
| 19 | More important what had previously been a low-visibility discretionary payment overnight turned into highly visible as-of-right entitlement . |
| 20 | Last year a cache of Second World War shells were unearthed on the site of what had previously been a scrap yard . |
| 21 | The children , however , were persistent and led the way round to the side of the building , stopping at what had probably been a small parcels office . |
| 22 | After 1918 the ILP was also able to recruit Liberal radicals from the middle classes to what had always been a predominantly working-class party . |
| 23 | He is also concerned about being unable to control their value on the open market , with individuals making money out of what had originally been a means of raising money for charity . |
| 24 | Ashley lived in what had originally been a farmhouse , a couple of miles outside Praia do Carvoeiro . |
| 25 | As they taxied in , Myeloski decided he would not comment on what had obviously been a most difficult landing with a lucky outcome . |
| 26 | The sudden chill of isolation which Britain felt in a hostile world , and the thrill of Dominion contingents serving alongside troops from ‘ home ’ , raised in new form what had long been a nagging conundrum — that the outlying parts of the Empire which Britain defended bore no appreciable share of the burden , precisely because of the fundamental political syllogism : no taxation without representation ; no representation without common responsibility ; no common responsibility without sacrifice of separate independence . |
| 27 | Rather there had been a subtle unravelling of what had once been a more integrated pattern of recreation . |
| 28 | The walk led to some greenhouses and what had once been a stable , now converted into a surgery . |
| 29 | He ended up by paying for most of the house himself and what had once been a modest little farmhouse jumped up several rungs of the architectural and social ladder . |
| 30 | Ceilings and floors dangled from what had once been a department store . |