Example sentences of "it [verb] been [num] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It has been one of the principle tenets of urethritis treatment policy that the patient should take no alcohol during the treatment period . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Argentina has not been just any other market for British arms ; it has been one of Britain 's best customers in a long relationship . |
| 6 | ‘ It has been one of the great enjoyments of my life recently . ’ |
| 7 | He said afterwards : ‘ It has been one of the most outstanding Scottish conferences I have attended . |
| 8 | In fact it has been one of the most sophisticated projects ever attempted on a building as complex as Terminal 3 . |
| 9 | It has been one of the saddest episodes in the whole climbing-village soap-opera . |
| 10 | It has been one of the greatest struggles of my life to learn to tell the truth … |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 " . |
| 13 | Instead it has been one of the very first things to suffer — and that is the scandal of our age . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The people have been most warm and welcoming and it has been one of the most enjoyable times in my ministry . ’ |
| 16 | The people have been most warm and welcoming and it has been one of the most enjoyable times in my ministry . ’ |
| 17 | Could it have been one of these specimens that succumbed to the examining blade of the paleopathologist 's knife ? |
| 18 | Could it have been one of the footpads who tried to ambush me earlier that day ? |
| 19 | It had been one of those days . |
| 20 | It had been one of those suggestions that stuns everyone with its rightness . |
| 21 | Clause 9 of the Party programme could not be blamed , as Rosa Luxemburg argued , for the disintegration of the old Russia ; it had been one of the resources for saving what had been saved . |
| 22 | He does not greatly care for the dark purplish bathroom suite ( ‘ Damson ’ , the estate agent 's brochure had called the shade ) but it had been one of the things that attracted Marjorie when they bought the house two years ago — the bathroom , with its kidney-shaped handbasin and goldplated taps and sunken bath and streamlined loo and bidet . |
| 23 | If it had been one of the local men , he explained to Sandison , there would have been no problem , but Maidstone was another matter . |
| 24 | Also , one of my carers — who is very caring , goes all the time , does the work for the person — is very young and quite quiet , and I feel … well last week a doctor came in to see her client , and if it had been one of the older carers I 'm sure they would have had a go at the doctor and forced him to do more than he actually did . |
| 25 | When he was young , it had been one of the days he most looked forward to . |
| 26 | ‘ It had been one of the flatest , non-turners of the season . |
| 27 | It had been one of those bloody-minded mornings , when everything went wrong and even inanimate objects seemed to have banded together in a conspiracy against him . |
| 28 | It had been one of those days when everything had gone wrong : the stake-out at the Saudi Embassy had produced exactly nothing ; a false alarm , and after six , agonisingly boring hours , Cowley had called through the most welcome of messages : Go home lads . |
| 29 | It had been one of Gregory 's first acts as pope to invest and consecrate him as bishop of Die , and to follow this up with a letter to the count of Die which contains a first draft of his later decree prohibiting the investiture of bishops by secular rulers . |
| 30 | It had been one of our opener 's better days , and he had manoeuvred his way to a total of 10 runs . |