Example sentences of "[verb] been a [adj] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The discussion has been a moral one . |
| 2 | The notion of self-discipline or autonomy has been a central one in recent work on professionalisation . |
| 3 | The danger has been a real one , but it has flowed entirely from distorted views about what the differences are , not from acceptance of difference as such . |
| 4 | His methods are still used today and it can reasonably be claimed that the influence of the eighteenth-century cattle breeders has been a major one worldwide . |
| 5 | Secondly , the organisational model which until very recently has characterised the residential sector has been a centralised one , in which most administrative decisions are taken by the management staff in the headquarters of local authority social work departments . |
| 6 | This last year has been a tumultuous one for the Dame . |
| 7 | For the college , the experience of developing and mounting the course has been a beneficial one , although at times it felt like self-inflicted punishment ! |
| 8 | The history of religion in England has been a complex one — Monasticism , the Dissolution , the Reformation , Nonconformity , and other events and disciplines have also played their part . |
| 9 | This chapter has been a complex one , but it has nevertheless been an exercise in oversimplification . |
| 10 | The period since 1979 has been a traumatic one for British trade unionism . |
| 11 | And though the objects of our gaze have been varied , the experience has been a unified one , for they were the result of one artistic mood , erected within a few years almost 2,500 years ago . |
| 12 | Only a minority of farm workers have ever been unionized and the history of rural trade unionism has been a chequered one , alternating between brief heady periods of success and long periods of stagnation and weakness . |
| 13 | The history of devolution has been a chequered one in our country , perhaps since the second world war . |
| 14 | The subject of travel concessions has been a controversial one for the last few months . |
| 15 | The debate on the rationale of hierarchy has been a heated one . |
| 16 | Otherwise it has been a strange one , with Janice trying hard to be ‘ cultured ’ , Teddy achieving it in Janice 's eyes and Lucker remaining slightly detached . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , whether the contract drawn up in the first place has been a correct one or not , I 'm not sure . |
| 18 | This year has been a tough one for industry and commerce . |
| 19 | Artists like these , however , whose influence on lettering has been a liberating one , are not to be found in The Spirit of the Letter at Portsmouth City Museum and Art Gallery . |
| 20 | The course we have pursued has been a wise one — not cutting ahead of need but firmly doing so when required . |
| 21 | Seizing their national moment continued from page one centred on conflict with Germany , but their solution has been a different one from that of the British . |
| 22 | Seizing the national moment continued from page one centred on conflict with Germany , but their solution has been a different one from that of the British . |
| 23 | The match between football and fashion has been a bad one since the Seventies . |
| 24 | At best it has been an unwelcome overhead ; often it has been a non-productive one . |
| 25 | Whilst we recognize the conceptual problems associated with rules and their application , the approach in the ethogenic study of the football and classroom cultures has been a pragmatic one . |
| 26 | The first weekend of the new year has been a busy one for the regions fox hunts — and for anti hunt campaigners . |
| 27 | The build-up to this game has been a relaxed one and that 's not really surprising . |
| 28 | Maybe I was worried that someone else would read my diary , but if so this worry could only have been a slight one : I was much too careful to afford anyone the opportunity to snoop . |
| 29 | It could not have been a bleaker one . |
| 30 | Such an equilibrium could only have been a temporary one , being based upon the fear of a common enemy , rather than on a positive material joint interest . |