Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [verb] been [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did so in a speech in the Norman town of Bayeux — a symbolic location because this town had been one of those that he had visited in his first trip to liberated territory in June 1944 . |
| 2 | While Senna 's steady but swift progress made his 20th Grand Prix victory look easy , the reigning world champion says this race has been one of the toughest . |
| 3 | This month has been one of the worst he can remember . |
| 4 | The many occasions over the years when this summit has been short of water were thus inevitable unless the level of leakage could have been reduced to an absolute minimum . |
| 5 | One of the most recent contributions to this debate has been that of Gerland Ledger , in his book Recounting Plato . |
| 6 | I remembered when my own wife , Maria , had told me this , and how this house had been full of the laughter of little voices , and the noise of running feet . |