Example sentences of "'s be an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It 's been an eventful year for the man who was recently awarded the lifetime achievements award by the American Film Institute .
2 They 'd , they had to because there were , they got , when , after the union was formed you know , they were having the rights er but and I think really the hours they put in and the type of work they deserved it , but erm there was a time you know when the bosses were bossy sort of thing , and er and you adhered to that , because you did n't know anything different until erm the unions started up , but erm I know there were one or two processions you know and peer rights and all this that and the other , but erm on the whole it 's er it 's been an eventful life in , in some ways , very eventful and it 's been interesting .
3 Noted for its relaxed professional atmosphere , nonetheless in the past year there 's been an impressive list of albums and singles recorded there .
4 There 's been an increasing tendency for people to stay on at school because they really want to , where it was one of the great criticisms of the boom years that people simply stayed on the escalator regardless , did n't think whether they wanted to stay on to , into sixth form , did n't think whether they wanted to go on to university or higher education , erm just did it without thinking .
5 But it 's been an amazing week reaching the final and taking the British record . ’
6 It 's been an encouraging campaign .
7 It 's been an encouraging response , quite a few people remember seeing him here .
8 She 's been an absolute brick
9 Again , there 's been an astonishing neglect , not so much I , I have to point out in fairness , of Totem and Taboo , as we 'll see .
10 It 's been an odd kind of fulfilment ; and it has quite knocked on the head all the priggish ideas I may have had , and given me a sense of values .
11 ‘ Carmen regards him as a kind of guru and I 'm the first to admit he 's been an invaluable catalyst in her career , but I wish he could talk about something other than medicine . ’
12 There 's been an awful lot of information imparted .
13 Er , it 's been coming in gradually over the years , but there 's been an awful lot of , of er , resistance by some manufacturers on what they say on their labels , and what they say about what they 're selling us , and er , if they 're gon na do this , and I 'm getting a , a slight suspicion , and I think Mr is , that , that it 's got to be done eventually , and we , we have to be able , as a buying public , to understand exactly what we 're buying before we actually get it home .
14 It 's not about violence or brutal police officers and I say that because for the last few years there 's been an awful lot of publicity about the particularly in the Metropolitan area and I ask you you will have read some terrible things about certain police officers .
15 There 's been an awful lot of discussion about this particular motion and I sha n't attempt cos we have n't got till three o'clock in the morning I do n't think , to answer all the points .
16 ‘ It 's been an understood thing for a year or two . ’
17 ‘ There 's been an enormous change over the last 30 or 40 years , a much greater acceptance of sexual differences , despite the moral politics of Mrs Thatcher and Aids .
18 ‘ It 's been an enormous change .
19 But yes , erm it , it 's partly sediment brought down from inland , it 's also the fact that you have offshore of Rye the area of Winchelsea Beach and so-called Rye Harbour which is somewhat detached from the town of Rye , and there 's been an enormous accumulation of shingle there , so that the Castle , which was built in , that 's Camber Castle which was built in the reign of Henry the Eighth , since that time the shoreline at Winchelsea Beach , as a result of the accumulation of shingle , has moved in excess of one point five kilometres seaward of that point , and so obviously erm Rye is now much further inland than it was at that time .
20 It 's been an enlightening experience . ’
21 Erm she 's due in at work on that Friday night er we 've encountered problems before whereby we 've asked for I E the Friday night off because there 's been an educational seminar on on the day as it were er and that , that 's been , that 's been de er
22 But it 's been an entertaining series , even though there must be quite a few Radio 4 listeners somewhat startled to hear the Fifties treated as risable history .
23 Erm , it 's been an important year for us , and I think that , you may recall that last year we talked a bit about the Nathan report , and er , if you look at the Directors er , report , you will see that quite a lot of the work that we talked about and was in the Nathan report , is now under way , and I think it 's very important .
24 I still find it difficult to talk about , though it 's been an open secret in the family for the past few years . ’
25 The rooms are badly heated , the facilities are okay and and it 's been , it 's been an okay experience so far .
26 It 's been an ever-present feature in PFK — but has never been as large , colourful , or as popular as at present — number one in almost every reader survey of the past few years .
27 ‘ He 's played for a decade for his country , he 's been an inspirational player .
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