Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] be a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has long been a very popular venue for cruise-ship parties , the descent to Monte or to Funchal being made by toboggan . |
| 2 | I myself would seemingly represent the environmental lobby , but there have been others , many ex-members of Harwell , who have been campaigning for a long time now , many years , to get these reactors shut down , and it has just been a very long slog , and eventually the truth has had to come to light to shut these reactors down . |
| 3 | There has always been a strongly suspected link between nuclear power stations and leukaemia and malignant lymphomas . |
| 4 | We ought first to remind ourselves that for every type of animal throughout time there has always been a most convenient size that has fitted it neatly into its own niche . |
| 5 | Cutting public spending has always been a politically divisive process for a government , as ministers in the major spending departments battle to protect their budgets . |
| 6 | Anti-British hysteria has always been a politically convenient sidetrack for European politicians . |
| 7 | Inequality has always been a politically contested issue for it is related to the distribution of power and resources in society . |
| 8 | Michael has always been a very hard worker and has filled every minute of every day with activity . |
| 9 | ‘ 3D seismic data is critical for resolving subsurface uncertainty , but providing the data has always been a very slow and costly process , ’ he says . |
| 10 | ‘ The council has always been a very moderate spender in the past and we should be able to undertake new initiatives this year . |
| 11 | The Russian army has always been a large one , much larger than those of other continental states , and military spending has always been a disproportionately heavy burden on public finances . |
| 12 | The use of one language rather than another has always been a highly political matter . |
| 13 | Britain has always been a highly centralized country . |
| 14 | It may be the case — I hope it is — that Borg has always been a much happier man than he has seemed , and that his resumption of his old trade is more a matter of idle curiosity about himself than it is a neurotic search for lost identity . |
| 15 | The programming side of IT has also been a weakly child . |
| 16 | At the same time , there has also been a sometimes quite heated public debate about the impacts of inward investment from Japan within the European Community and North America . |
| 17 | But the process has also been a more subtle one , as new initiatives have apparently been tacked on to existing local government . |
| 18 | The Queen 's broadcast has traditionally been a closely guarded secret — and it was seen as more sensitive than usual this year after what the Queen has termed her ‘ annus horribilis ’ or horrible year . |
| 19 | Oil will remain the major fuel but the most significant growth will be in gas consumption as more use is made of what has traditionally been a vastly abundant and wasted fuel . |
| 20 | There has consequently been a much greater emphasis in their work on the study of animals in the wild , on the differences between species , and on the adaptive significance of behaviour . |
| 21 | Now it is celebrating its 18th year with Citalia and over that time it has consistently been a most popular resort hotel . |
| 22 | At the close of the 1990–91 season 's business , Phil Barber was Palace 's longest-serving current player and had joined the select troupe of men to have played over 250 games for The Eagles some fourteen months previously , so that is fair to say that there has seldom been a more popular fellow to wear the Palace colours . |
| 23 | But we deal at somewhat greater length with the language aspects of the English curriculum than with those concerned with literature , because language , including such matters as Standard English , the use of linguistic terminology , the teaching of grammar and knowledge about language , has recently been a more contentious subject than the teaching of literature . |
| 24 | There has recently been a very considerable interest in the effects of mood on memory , see for example the volume of papers edited by Kuiken ( 1991 ) . |
| 25 | Literature — above all fiction — has never been a notably gentlemanly profession in Britain , as Dickens and H. G. Wells illustrate ; and the Bloomsbury group had been upper middle-class rather than aristocratic . |
| 26 | Vote now , pay later has never been a more frightening truth . |
| 27 | SIR — The late , great Mr. X , of whom there has never been a more acute analyst of the golf swing , was always emphatic about the ‘ right shin post ’ , as he described it , being an essential requisite of a good swing . |
| 28 | Who — or rather what — says so is a very large and growing body of evidence produced from medical research conducted by leading doctors and scientists of the Western world : experts whose reputation is beyond question and who have no cash benefit to gain from their findings . |
| 29 | Erm , but it 's obviously been a very trying time for them . |
| 30 | She 's always been a rather unhappy , bitter woman . ’ |