Example sentences of "been a [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The response from the Fed itself after its Open Market Committee has been a cautious wait-and-see approach . |
| 2 | Indeed , he and C.Z. must have been a divine couple themselves , and his spirit informs C.Z. 's conversation at every turn . |
| 3 | Suppose , as was possible , that the person to whom the behaviour was directed had been a heterosexual using the lavatory for its proper purpose . |
| 4 | One school had been a major spearhead of RBL in the county for many years and had invested considerable thought , enterprise and resources in library provision and study skills . |
| 5 | But it had been a serious falling out . |
| 6 | Paul had been a real find so far , and she knew it would do his professional standing a lot of good if he could design the whole hotel complex . |
| 7 | Do you think Ruddock would have been a good buy ? |
| 8 | He was no longer particularly interested in the work of younger writers ; this was partly because he no longer felt confident in his judgments about contemporary writing but , at a more general level , he believed there had been a profound falling off in the standard of both literature and criticism since the Second World War . |
| 9 | It remains to be seen whether it will prove to have been a short lived experiment or the basis for UK urban policy . |
| 10 | And after two or three years of ‘ what seemed like free fall ’ in the early 80s , there has been a significant levelling off in the sales graph and the cost base has been radically improved . |
| 11 | There was a street market here at weekends , and a few days ago there had been a fair to celebrate some local festival . |