Example sentences of "[adv] be an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ferranti has had its problems in the past so has rarely been an investors ' favourite . |
| 2 | It was effectively superseded in 1980 by the Latin American Integration Association ( LAIA ) , which allowed bilateral deals and has since been an umbrella under which they have proliferated ( Tussie 1987 : p. 129 ) . |
| 3 | ’ As the influence of Cézanne grew , so that of Gauguin , who had hitherto been an important influence in the work of the Fauves , waned . |
| 4 | Beyond this , however , its origin has hitherto been an insoluble problem : the explicit evidence of the ancients is notoriously inadequate and various different theories have been constructed from it . |
| 5 | The Treaty brings about the formal transformation of what has hitherto been an Economic Community into a Union which is mandated to act in many areas on behalf of its own citizens , and to claim their allegiance . |
| 6 | Ian , thanks ever so much , it 's not necessarily been an easy ride for you , but we 're glad to know you and we look forward to meeting you again . |
| 7 | Yet it was as though that night , in the moonlight , in the silence , as though even the work , the months of steady labour , had only been an illusion , only the dream of work , the dream of progress , and I had not even begun and never would begin , though at different moments in my life I might have had the illusion that I had begun and even , perhaps , finished . |
| 8 | By the end of 1926 , the General Council was advancing the argument , with some justification , that the General Strike had only been an attempt to warn employers that the problems of industry could not constantly be tackled at the expense of the standard of living of the workers . |
| 9 | Whilst numbers of full-time farmers had fallen by 28% in the past ten years there had only been an 8% reduction in the number of part-time farmers . |
| 10 | He was walking towards a new life , a kind of freedom which had only been an idealistic daydream for nearly sixty years . |
| 11 | Keeping quiet had not only been an error of judgement , it had also poisoned any chance they might have had of entering into a worthwhile relationship . |
| 12 | One minute there had apparently been an entire nation , set upon racial purity and world domination , and then the next … |
| 13 | It has long been an axiom of the Labour Party that MacDonald 's actions in 1931 marked him as a traitor to the cause . |
| 14 | The cultural difference between Spain and the Spanish king 's northern dominions was considerably greater than that between France and Scotland ; Scotland managed to resist becoming a permanent part of the French political hegemony , but she had long been an enthusiastic member of the cultural one . |
| 15 | There has long been an unspoken consensus across the party spectrum that challenging the system would be to enter a political minefield . |
| 16 | Eugénie had not long been an Empress , but she had always been a grandee of Spain , with all that implied in pride and good breeding . |
| 17 | The chancellor who had long been an admirer of the queen , was affected not for the first time by her beauty and appeal — attributes which , it seemed to him , were in no way impaired by adversity . |
| 18 | In a traditional Spain Catalonia had long been an industrial region . |
| 19 | As I mentioned earlier , the saithe or coalfish Gadus virens has long been an important fish in Shetland , the surface-shoaling immatures being utilised by many sea-birds . |
| 20 | Much of this veneration is due to the fact that rugs , in addition to their aesthetic value , have long been an integral part of the religious experience of the Islamic world . |
| 21 | Mint sauce has long been an ingredient of the English Sunday lunch of lamb with the season 's new green peas and new potatoes . |
| 22 | I have long been an admirer of Hannah , and I have read the books and seen the television programmes . |
| 23 | The search for training which fits this description in the management of education is hindered in two ways : it has long been an area for tension between theorists and practitioners and it has from time to time been exposed to management models from fields where practice and purpose are very different from those of education . |
| 24 | Retaining these had long been an unquestioned perquisite and trouble began when the clothiers carried out their threat to prosecute and two persons were whipped for theft for failing to return thrums . |
| 25 | The latter hurt Israel far more than the Arab states because France had long been an important arms supplier to Israel . |
| 26 | There has long been an antipathy against council housing in rural districts . |
| 27 | That had all been an act , partly to lull the Men into trusting him but also , Creggan now realized , to hide the same feelings as they all had in captivity : a game to while away the endless waiting . |
| 28 | It had all been an enjoyable game , and she had always imagined that love would be an enjoyable game as well , except that there was nothing enjoyable about the pain eating away at her . |
| 29 | In a moment she would open her eyes to discover that it had all been an incredible , fantastical dream . |
| 30 | And it had all been an act , a ploy to save them both embarrassment after the mild indiscretions of the previous evening . |