Example sentences of "[adj] it [verb] been a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twice Iorwerth 's warning signal had fetched them hastily to their pre-arranged places ; but on the first occasion Isambard had shunned the dripping copse and ridden away down the softer slopes eastward of Parfois , with his attendants strung out after him like beads on the string of darker green he left in the wet grass ; and on the second it had been a full-scale hunt with a dozen or more guests and very nearly fifty retainers , and Owen had held his hand , unwilling to venture against such odds . |
| 2 | In 1812 it had been an incredible 126s ( £6.30 ) . |
| 3 | All in all it had been a busy but constructive evening 's work . |
| 4 | It was atypical of most provincial towns in that it had been a thriving industrial centre for some time , and was taking off again after the disruption caused by the Civil War . |
| 5 | At best it has been an unwelcome overhead ; often it has been a non-productive one . |
| 6 | 3.3 It has been a recurrent presumption that the attributive position is in some sense or other a disguised form of the predicative position . |