Example sentences of "[adj] has been [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , in paragraph thirteen , Invest in People , the target date for er , achievement in the award has been delayed from the twenty seventh of , sorry the twenty eighth of February , until the twentieth of May , and the reason for that has been staff effort required to get community action going . |
| 2 | A major contributory factor to this has been excise duty discrimination against spirits , particularly that in favour of imported wine . |
| 3 | This has been Eric Gill 's year , and 140 of his engravings are at Sally Hunter . |
| 4 | Until we next meet over the airwaves , this has been Lynne Cramer … ‘ |
| 5 | ‘ You mean all this has been FBI work ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ This has been Lola Stechkin at ZeeBeeCee , signing off . |
| 7 | ‘ This has been Lola Stechkin at ZeeBeeCee , soaping my back and signing off . |
| 8 | Another has been Dr Samuel Postlethwait of Purdue , already mentioned in Chapter 2 , and who exemplifies a carefully pre-planned and programmed teaching approach , devised by a subject-specialist academic , and taking place ( as it happens ) in a laboratory not a library . |
| 9 | She has always been an internationalist — and since 1975 has been membership secretary of the Chile Solidarity Campaign . |
| 10 | The most widely acclaimed of these has been John Rawls 's A Theory of Justice , which was published in 1971 and rapidly assumed the status of a contemporary classic . |
| 11 | The most notable representative of the latter has been Michel Foucault , who has remorselessly continued the critique of totalizing forms of history and the disavowal of a general philosophy of history in favour of strategic ‘ genealogical ’ analyses . |
| 12 | Even though experienced Australian batsmen like Marsh and Dean Jones ( before his second-innings 150 at Perth ) have flopped badly this summer at international level , perhaps the most disappointing has been Mark Waugh , who after his sensational century on debut against England at Adelaide last year was expected to forge a long-term place in the middle order . |