Example sentences of "[adv] been a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lunch had not altogether been a waste of time . |
| 2 | Liberal democracy benefits capitalism not because capitalists control workers ' minds but because the industrial proletariat have rarely been a majority and are a now shrinking minority in advanced capitalist societies . |
| 3 | Gray had at the most been a shade injudicious , a little unworldly , perhaps , in his supervision of Jefferson . |
| 4 | ‘ Since then it 's mostly been a case of building up our database . |
| 5 | Traditionally , corporate takeover activity has predominantly been a feature of UK and US markets . |
| 6 | The original money was quickly invested and there has since been a stream of rights issues , particularly from companies in Thailand where the fund is 37.8 per cent invested . |
| 7 | There have since been a series of proposals to re-establish some form of compulsory treatment in the community from the Mental Health Act Commission ( in 1986 and again in 1988 ) , the Royal College of Psychiatrists ( 1987 ) , and the British Medical Association ( 1989 ) . |
| 8 | It 's since been a cafe , a grill and a bric-a-brac shop , with plans now to turn it into a museum and heritage centre ; something Browne Willis would doubtless have approved of . |
| 9 | While there has perhaps been a tendency to over-emphasise health and safety issues in risk management at the expense of others , the weight of legislation in this area has led to the appointment of someone in this role almost as a priority . |
| 10 | But the whole experience left me ruefully feeling that it had perhaps been a mistake to publish a report about them . |
| 11 | Has there perhaps been a change in the flow or direction of this current ? |
| 12 | The environment has hitherto been a fief of the interior ministry . |
| 13 | Milton remarked that this chair had hitherto been a sinecure , though it carried a salary of over £100 per annum and would ‘ serve any gentleman especially a law[y]er ’ . |
| 14 | In RENFE , collective bargaining over the past decade or so has basically been a process of dismantling the framework of Francoist labour regulation and replacing it with a series of negotiated agreements . |
| 15 | ‘ But , ’ he points out , ‘ the experience in the US has not necessarily been a success . ’ |
| 16 | And then the shadows moved again , and Lugh could see that there was nothing there at all , and that he was nearer now to Tara than he had thought , and after all it had only been a trick of the light . |
| 17 | He had only been a stop-gap , to fill in after Father Collins 's long , thirty-five-year ministry and the appointment of a permanent successor , if there were to be a successor . |
| 18 | Edward recalls this attitude clearly among the Swindon-Welsh cronies of his paternal grandmother : ‘ They used to remark how well my father was doing , my grandfather who had long been dead having only been a fitter ’ . |
| 19 | as if all the work of the past four months had only been a dream , the cutting and the drilling , the painting , the moulding of the lead wire . |
| 20 | In his anguished soliloquy on awaking from what he thinks has only been a dream , we see that the hypocrite has lost for ever the advantage he has had over other people . |
| 21 | I know that it has only been a couple of weeks but my word , it does seem longer , and so much has happened to you , has n't it ? |
| 22 | At the time of writing , the situation had become a lot calmer , though it had only been a couple of weeks since Stan received his first injection . |
| 23 | But I had to recognise that there have only been a couple of traumas in ten years and the trouble rate is likely to hot up as I move towards 40 . |
| 24 | ‘ That 's quick , Mrs Goodbody , ’ said Annie , ‘ it 's only been a couple of days . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It 's only been a couple of days , ’ said Joe . |
| 26 | And in the same you know , I mean er two or three years so there 's not gon na be much , and it 's only been a couple that are gon na |
| 27 | He has only been a reserve for Wales all season , although I believe he has been playing very well for his club . |
| 28 | He had only been a councillor for nine months but had been very diligent and effective . ’ |
| 29 | There 's one thing about it , only been a year old the heating is in good condition , you 're warm in there . |
| 30 | it 's only been a university now for about sort of ten year well not even that , five or ten years I think . |