Example sentences of "it has been [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It has been Bill Heseltine more than anyone else who brought the royal family into the age of the photo-opportunity .
2 ‘ Some of it has been Sunday League stuff — and that is with due respect to anyone in the Sunday League .
3 In recent years it has been Ian Rush who has been the scourge of Everton but this time he turned provider to send the Israeli international through a dumbfounded Everton defence .
4 Over the past ten years it has been government policy to encourage this ( DHSS , 1976a ) .
5 Of the domestic borrowers , local authorities issued , in the years between the mid-1950s and the early 1980s , a large volume of stocks ( over five years to maturity ) and negotiable bonds ( from one to four years to maturity ) ; but in recent years it has been government policy to centralise most public-sector borrowing and as a result public issues by local authorities have all but ceased .
6 It has been Ivy week , ’ wrote Elizabeth .
7 In Britain , it has been trade unions , rather than manufacturers , purchasers and governments , who have taken the initiative in discussing the ergonomic design and installation of VDUs .
8 He expected to act as sponsor to Chou En-lai in the unfamiliar field of international diplomacy , but it was actually Chou who took over centre stage ( as The Times pronounced , 25 April 1955 , ‘ It has been Mr Chou En-lai 's week ’ ) .
9 For six weeks it has been pitch black .
10 It has been market practice in asset-backed transactions for there to be a mechanism whereby transactions can be mopped up when the balance of performing assets falls below a given level , usually 10% of initial principal .
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