Example sentences of "has [adv] [been] [det] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 That is why meat has long been such a symbol of worldly power .
2 He said : ‘ I travel an awful lot with my career but I have always kept up my links with Derry and the football club has always been such a part of me . ’
3 Indeed we may say that there has always been such a tendency , in the patristic period likewise , to collapse the distinction between the two natures .
4 why has there been such a Star Wars plan ?
5 There has never been such a vote of no confidence in the country since Gallup began measuring the urge to emigrate in 1948 .
6 There never had been such a moment , for critics ; there has never been such a moment since .
7 In a study of miraculous images of Mary which weep , the author , Father Hebert SM , after saying there is a long history of these writes , ‘ There has never been such an outpouring of tears as there has been in this century … more explicitly during the ten years , 1971–1981 , particularly so in Italy and in the United States ’ .
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