Example sentences of "what has 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 . |