Example sentences of "it [verb] been [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will , however , consider whether the Panel has observed the basic rules of natural justice and has observed its own procedural rules and whether it has been guilty of any irrationality or has misdirected itself in law ( see Datafin ) . |
| 2 | Moreover , because of the first-past-the-post electoral system and the predominantly two-party system , it has been one of the few parties of the left able to form a government on its own . |
| 3 | It has been one of the principle tenets of urethritis treatment policy that the patient should take no alcohol during the treatment period . |
| 4 | Translating aims into specific objectives can assist in removing the confusions that can arise between intentions and practice , but beyond this the case for objectives is less certain ; in fact , it has been one of the most hotly debated innovations in teaching for some time . |
| 5 | Ironically , it has been one of the board 's own employees , Dr Ross Hesketh , who has been questioning many of the rather bland assurances on what has happened to British plutonium from the civil programme . |
| 6 | Argentina has not been just any other market for British arms ; it has been one of Britain 's best customers in a long relationship . |
| 7 | ‘ It has been one of the great enjoyments of my life recently . ’ |
| 8 | He said afterwards : ‘ It has been one of the most outstanding Scottish conferences I have attended . |
| 9 | In fact it has been one of the most sophisticated projects ever attempted on a building as complex as Terminal 3 . |
| 10 | It has been one of the saddest episodes in the whole climbing-village soap-opera . |
| 11 | It has been one of the greatest struggles of my life to learn to tell the truth … |
| 12 | It has been one of the traditional strengths of the structural-functional approach to explore the relationships between beliefs and the social nexus to which they belong , finding meaning not only in cultural form , but also in social content . |
| 13 | It has been one of the cliches of modern liberalism , since at least the time of de Tocqueville and the younger Mill , to dwell on the possible , even probable , disjunction between democracy and liberty , to stress the fact that popular rule does not necessarily imply personal freedom , and to conjure up the spectacle of the " tyranny of the majority " . |
| 14 | Instead it has been one of the very first things to suffer — and that is the scandal of our age . |
| 15 | Recently Thresher has also been involved in the development of a national vocational qualification at levels 1–4 through the retail Certificate and it has been one of the first of three British companies to offer an opportunity for staff to obtain NVQ recognition through all stages . |
| 16 | The people have been most warm and welcoming and it has been one of the most enjoyable times in my ministry . ’ |
| 17 | The people have been most warm and welcoming and it has been one of the most enjoyable times in my ministry . ’ |
| 18 | In particular , it has been incapable of showing how British cultural nationalism becomes a language of race . |
| 19 | In fact ‘ it has been short of traffic . ’ |
| 20 | In fact ‘ it has been short of traffic . ’ |
| 21 | It has been more of a blessing than a curse . |
| 22 | Could it have been one of these specimens that succumbed to the examining blade of the paleopathologist 's knife ? |
| 23 | Could it have been one of the footpads who tried to ambush me earlier that day ? |
| 24 | This door was closed too carefully , perhaps too stealthily , for it to have been any of Haverford 's doing . |
| 25 | Teachers who claim to have been highly involved also claim to have used a wider variety of methods and feel more competent to conduct the review , believing it to have been more of a whole-school effort , more thorough and more useful in producing proposals for change . |
| 26 | As Agnes hurried down the street it came to her that it had been tactless of her to talk about life being dull and with no bright future ; for had they any bright future ? |
| 27 | The chastened company admitted that the shock loss showed that it had been guilty of poor financial controls and a badly-timed shareholders letter — Vannotti said the board was convinced up to March 22 when the shareholders letter was sent that it would record a profit for 1992 , but he and the chairman subsequently ordered a special audit , after financial controllers warned of problems with the accounts for Ascom 's cable television and mobile telephone businesses in Germany , and a closer examination revealed the German results had to be corrected by $41m — $28m of extraordinary depreciation and $12.8m of adjustments to inventory values , Vannotti said . |
| 28 | On the walk back to Daphne 's flat Becky could n't help feeling a little guilty about deserting Charlie on his first night home and began to think perhaps it had been selfish of her to accept an invitation to go to a concert with Guy that night . |
| 29 | Medical men had perforce to be botanists , and often gardeners as well , and in time medical knowledge came to be the perquisite of the European religious orders , as it had been that of the priests in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs . |
| 30 | It had been one of those days . |