Example sentences of "what [verb] been a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is thus both puzzling and worrying that so many brewers are still apparently obsessed with eradicating the uniqueness of the individual historic pub , effectively destroying what has been a familiar and secure social centre in their attempts to ‘ improve ’ upon a successful , time-honoured formula . |
| 2 | Crystal Palace1 ARSENAL , back to the form which earned them two championships in three years , will use the rest of what has been a disappointing season for them to lay the foundations for future challenges . |
| 3 | This partnership with City and Guilds is the latest collaboration in what has been a long and fuitgul relationship . |
| 4 | The end-of-term jollity was illustrative of the relaxed atmosphere that has pervaded the final week of the Liberal Democrat election drive — a product not merely of the light-headedness of exhaustion but also of the undoubted success of what has been a well-judged campaign . |
| 5 | ‘ The basic concept was that there should be a period of restraint to redress the balance of what has been a tremendous amount of development over the years , ’ he said , referring to the support the parish council had given to county and district while they were drawing up their local plans . |
| 6 | Mr Maclean replied : ‘ The fact that we do have a full investigation of what has been a small emission does show how rigorous the inspectorate systems are in this country . ’ |
| 7 | In what has been a good year for poets at the conferences , with Neil Kinnock quoting both Frost and Shelley , and Kenneth Baker identifying with Henry V or Kenneth Branagh , Mr Patten chose Larkin 's observation that , with honour gone , all we could now leave to our children was money . |
| 8 | Teldec have provided the work with a particularly spacious and powerful recording and the Frankfurt players seem determined to end in royal style what has been a fine and unusually wide-ranging cycle of Bruckner symphony recordings . |
| 9 | The establishment of the Enterprise Staff Development Programme ; the setting up of an Academic Link scheme ; the ‘ piloting ’ of ‘ Live Projects ’ ; a ‘ pilot ’ Student Tutoring scheme ; enterprise studentships ; the formation of a network of Enterprise Co-ordinators are a few ‘ highlights ’ of what has been a busy programme of work for the year 1992/1993 . |
| 10 | I wish to express my gratitude to Simon Rattle and his remarkable orchestra in Birmingham for providing what has been a wonderful new musical experience for me . |
| 11 | ‘ My family have been great in sticking with me during what has been a hard time . ’ |
| 12 | What has been a human event is now seen as sacred . |
| 13 | The SPD accordingly took over Lower Saxony 's five seats in the Bundesrat ( upper house of the federal parliament ) to have a total of 27 seats , with the result that the government CDU-Christian Social Union ( CSU ) -Free Democratic Party ( FDP ) coalition , now with 18 seats , lost what had been a one-seat majority . |
| 14 | Today 's announcement comes at the end of what had been a successful decade for the Trust . |
| 15 | They were in what had been a walled garden and was now just a mass of rubble . |
| 16 | On the Monday , the bulldozer moved in and turned what had been a rough path into a track about 8 feet wide . |
| 17 | Said Platt : ‘ The haggling over the contract spoiled what had been a good summer for me . |
| 18 | What had been a small dark circle was a larger dark circle , with just a suspicion of smoke or steam around its edges . |
| 19 | It is shortened to just the second and third phrases , both of which are cadentially ‘ open ’ , and so what had been a self-sufficient arch shape is turned into continuous , open-ended variative repetition ( see Ex. 1.2 ) . |
| 20 | It was midway through the second half of Saturday 's game at Kingsholm , when what had been a fair game , turned foul . |
| 21 | In a few hours she would come face to face once more with that same man who was responsible for his death and this time she was intent on making absolutely sure that what had been a teenage crush on her part remained just that . |
| 22 | The result was that what had been a small-sized cheap labour force became a large well-paid labour force . |
| 23 | But as she made her way back to the table , Polly 's fierce satisfaction at having the last word in what had been a nerve-shattering encounter quickly faded . |
| 24 | Then , in the sixteenth century , what had been a military building was converted by the Albret dynasty , who were now the rulers here , into a sophisticated civilian one , suitable as a home for courtly pursuits — there are some fine Renaissance doorways and windows dating from that conversion on the left and at the far end of the very irregular courtyard into which you first go . |
| 25 | It was his first refreshment in what had been a heavy and unrewarding day ; his leading lady had been difficult , and wanted to marry him ; the audience , confronted with an expensive cast , had been unresponsive . |
| 26 | The Bridges Community Centre was opened in 1987 in what had been a derelict factory canteen on a large industrial site in Monmouth . |
| 27 | She stared down at the floor and the remains of what had been a human being . |
| 28 | From 1971 to 1977 he was the head coach of the Washington Redskins professional football team , and turned what had been a lacklustre bunch into a city 's obsession . |
| 29 | At Bridgwater , in the following month , Vernon Bartlett , a Liberal supporter of the " Peace Alliance " , was elected as a " Progressive " in what had been a National seat . |
| 30 | At this point , the strain on Renee Henry 's marriage became too much , and what had been a troubled relationship crumbled . |