Example sentences of "[been] the [adj] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless it tasted excellent , or it may have been the dry French cider from my waterbottle that improved the taste . |
| 2 | At no other time has either left or right been able to form a government without the support of the FOP , which has therefore been the essential junior partner in coalition either with the CDU/CSU or , less often , with the SPD . |
| 3 | One of the most significant developments has been the increasing open employment of young people with severe disabilities , particularly severe intellectual disabilities . |
| 4 | The US military space and intelligence agencies — as well as the civilian federal government had not merely been the key early purchasers of computers . |
| 5 | Steel-Maitland could at last be moved from the Ministry of Labour , which had in many ways been the key departmental post of the administration , and in which he had throughout been ill-regarded but undisturbed . |
| 6 | Although recently wound up , one spin-off has been the in-house desk-top publication of the Technical Bulletin itself — the excellent colour illustrations have been printed from computer digitised colour images taken from high quality transparencies . |
| 7 | Leading that charge has been the right hon. Member for Henley ( Mr. Heseltine ) — that elegant nonentity whose only claim to fame was that he helped rid the nation of the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) . |
| 8 | Possibly intending a pun on the word ‘ horary ’ , he named it an ‘ orrery ’ ; and this has since been the usual English word for a mechanical planetarium . |
| 9 | Along with the clatter of clunk-clicking up and down the nation this week , there have been the usual apocryphal murmurings about the dangers of seat belts . |
| 10 | The Suez debacle had been the great emblematic event for Healey , as for many others of his generation , vividly demonstrating the gulf between imperial pretence and potential . |
| 11 | Tazmamert has been the great forbidden subject in Morocco . |
| 12 | Gin had been the great popular comfort of Paradise Street in her childhood , gin and tea , so she took it as someone from another background might have made a dish of bread and milk . |
| 13 | Geraldine Ferraro , who had been the Democratic vice-presidential candidate in 1984 , once again suffered because of her husband 's alleged connections with the Mafia and failed to win the Democratic nomination for a Senate seat for New York . |
| 14 | Since that time , interest rates have increased and there have been the well publicised problems in the sector . |
| 15 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health what has been the average annual increase in national health service capital spending since 1978-79 ; and what was the average increase between 1973-74 and 1978-79 . |
| 16 | The biggest initiative has been the virtual nationwide provision of two-year part-time course for full-time teachers leading to Certificates in Education ( FE ) , but there has also been a growth in Diploma and higher degree courses and there seem likely soon to be additional initial BEd . |
| 17 | Although Hubble 's work ( with subsequent numerical amendment ) has been the principal empirical basis of cosmology , this is not a book about cosmology but about astronomical observation beyond the Galaxy . |
| 18 | In the past , sea salt has been the only recognized medication for such infections , but in recent years great strides have been made in our understanding of the various fungal infections and cures based upon methylene blue and malachite green are readily available and work simply and quickly . |
| 19 | It knew that the incident had been the only serious act of indiscipline during the strike and that Wilson had used it in his speech to taunt and smear the Ulster people . |
| 20 | That , that 's been the only other way of doing it . . |
| 21 | Since 1987 , it has been the only monetary aggregate with a target range set annually . |
| 22 | Until this year , massive and painful jabs of immunoglobulin in the bottom have been the only short-term chance of protection . |
| 23 | There are certainly cases where this would seem to have been the only possible method of transmission , but the extent of the risk is hard to quantify . |
| 24 | Until recently , surgery has been the only effective management for Dieulafoy 's lesions . |
| 25 | This and our unbelievable performance against Northtown have been the only bright spots in another nightmare week . |
| 26 | At the time it would have been the only glittering example of this technique north of the Alps . |
| 27 | They would have been the only outward sign of strain as her voice continued to keep its same even tenor , its same quiet courtesy . |
| 28 | ( Beckenham appears to have been the only municipal authority in the London area to have held motor-bus powers . ) |
| 29 | Scholars of the development of the English language know that generic he has been the undisputed standard usage for less than two centuries . |
| 30 | What they had given each other , dramatic though it had become at the end , had been the inevitable physical manifestation of what had happened between them weeks earlier . |