Example sentences of "[verb] been [conj] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until quite recently the outstanding problem with many recordings of music before 1600 has been that they reveal the lack of tradition behind their vocal and instrumental practice and therefore suffer from an inevitable slide towards solipsism . |
| 2 | A disadvantage of team teaching , of course , has been that it required the teacher , normally an individualistic person accustomed to complete authority within the four walls of his classroom , to sink his authority and his subject speciality within a group . |
| 3 | The second could have been that whoever ordered the manuscript took seriously Rameau 's silly claim that the keyboard part was self-sufficient and that no one hearing a solo performance of this music would guess that anything was missing . |
| 4 | Old-fashioned they may have been but they proved a point , which today 's deregulated TV stations would do well to heed , that what the public actually want to see is characterization , plot , and relationships . |
| 5 | It was n't entirely true but it could very well have been and he showed no surprise . |
| 6 | It was not without its problems — co-operation between the individual producers was not always as effective as it might have been and it lacked a satisfactory system of ensuring that the quality of productions was kept uniformly high — but it was an influential scheme , and the bias towards the tape-slide medium amongst audio-visual teaching aids in the UK remains to this day . |
| 7 | All I knew about her was that she was a schoolteacher , as Tom had been before he joined the organisation . |
| 8 | Up to this point the only political significance of racism had been that it provided a divided work force for employers . |
| 9 | The Irish Times quoted Craig as claiming that a reason for banning the march had been that it posed a threat to the United States military base in Derry : |
| 10 | The Navaho Jospehites were all young , as young as he had been when he joined the Sons and painted his face to strike a blow at the heart of the white man 's world . |
| 11 | She only realised how tense she had been when she replaced the receiver and found the palm of her hands covered in a fine film of perspiration . |