Example sentences of "this [verb] been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has been Guyana 's flag since 1966 when it became independent from Britain . |
| 2 | A major contributory factor to this has been excise duty discrimination against spirits , particularly that in favour of imported wine . |
| 3 | This has been Eric Gill 's year , and 140 of his engravings are at Sally Hunter . |
| 4 | Until we next meet over the airwaves , this has been Lynne Cramer … ‘ |
| 5 | For the United States , this has been part of its purpose as an aspect of counter-insurgency policy : to prevent the mass of the population defecting to the FMLN and its allies , and to deal with the social and economic costs of about half a million displaced persons . |
| 6 | The ‘ Adults Learning ’ session with me in March will help marry some of the theory of adult education to the Medau teaching method — this has been part of the Teacher Training Course for some time , and we thought that some of you who have been qualified a little longer might like some theory to back up your practical experience . |
| 7 | ‘ I am sure the people who have been treated would say this has been money well spent , ’ she said . |
| 8 | ‘ You mean all this has been FBI work ? ’ |
| 9 | THIS has been Germany 's year . |
| 10 | This has been dogma in the Labour Party ( and probably the other major parties ) for some 30 years . |
| 11 | This has been Canada 's flag since 1965 . |
| 12 | ‘ This has been Lola Stechkin at ZeeBeeCee , signing off . |
| 13 | ‘ This has been Lola Stechkin at ZeeBeeCee , soaping my back and signing off . |
| 14 | Now we have GCSE , which devolves somewhat the choice of topics and the manner and timing of assessment to individual schools , and shifts the balance of that assessment from the retention of content to the mastery of certain identifiable skills — though in practice how extensive a shift this has been remains open to question . |
| 15 | This had been Sam 's first day out since the birth of Jennifer , and it seemed to all on board that the good Lord was smiling upon them and giving a sign of His blessing upon the marriage . |
| 16 | BK told us this had been base camp for early attempts on Kanchenjunga from the south . |
| 17 | The hotel is a group of buildings surrounded by gardens and trees in a compound , and we noticed from the start a vaguely British feeling about it — we asked our guide and he told us it had been formerly the British Embassy ( presumably during the years when this had been Chiang Kai-Shek 's capital ) , and had remained in British hands until 1960 or so , I suppose it was a consulate or something . |
| 18 | In the Reformation this had been North-South between Protestants and Catholics . |
| 19 | This had been Jesus ' gospel ; it concerned the Father only , not the Son — for Jesus had not proclaimed himself . |
| 20 | This had been Baxter 's privilege until , one day , Mr. Owen gave this position to his rival . |
| 21 | This had been Christine 's place , once . |
| 22 | Fergus should have been standing here , thought Taliesin , and there was a pain and an aching void at the knowledge , for this had been Fergus 's quest and his covenant . |
| 23 | This had been Sir Ivor at his brilliant best , striking with one deadly burst of speed . |
| 24 | She ached with sympathy for him , and if this had been Christmas , or any time in those months when she had felt they were friends , she would have pulled him into her arms and soothed him with soft hands and whispered words . |
| 25 | Kennan met MacArthur for lunch on 1 March ; MacArthur stated that there had previously been only one successful military occupation in history and this had been Julius Caesar 's achievement in the subjugated barbarian provinces . |
| 26 | Two of the most important exceptions to this have been works by the cultural historians , T. J. Clark and Carl Schorske . |