Example sentences of "[noun] that it have been [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coun Vera Moody told Langbaurgh 's planning committee that it had been a long-standing problem with young people congregating in the shopping parade . |
| 2 | Sawle acknowledged this on the eve of the final Test when , asked to defend the dumping of Marsh , he made the point that it had been the bowlers — Craig McDermott ( whose 31 wickets made him the highest Australian wicket-taker in a series against India ) , Bruce Reid ( a wrecker in the second Test before breaking down again ) and Merv Hughes — who had been the key figures throughout the series . |
| 3 | We are doing what we can , but I take my hon. Friend 's point that it has been an ongoing saga for some time now . |
| 4 | It 's hard to believe that the first meeting of the Galway Races took place at Ballybrit Race Course in 1869 ; and it immediately so fired the public imagination that it has been a major fixture on the Irish racing calendar ever since . |
| 5 | But as soon as he cursed himself for being taken in last night by Isabel 's distress , two insistent memories shook his belief that it had been an act put on for his benefit : the way she had clung fiercely to his hand when they had passed the dungeons , her grip almost painfully strong , and the stricken expression on her face when he had ordered her to strip . |
| 6 | During his summing up , Mr Justice Henry had instructed the jury to reject Saunders 's claim that it had been a " victimless crime " because no-one appeared to have lost money through it . |
| 7 | It was just bad luck for the second man that it had been a good place . |
| 8 | No matter that it had been a failure . |
| 9 | However , those who operate the law are well aware that it will only be respected to the extent that it conforms with public opinion : the reason why journalists and broadcasters are not prosecuted much more often for undoubted infringements of the letter of the laws of contempt and official secrecy is simply that the authorities are well aware that up-to-the-hilt enforcement of these vague laws would bring the law into further disrepute , and precipitate precisely the sort of clash between government and the press that it has been the British genius to avoid , whenever possible , by cosy arrangements . |