Example sentences of "been the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although , in referring to the possibility that serfdom might " abolish itself from below " , the tsar seemed to be responding to the rural disturbances which had resulted from Nicholas 's militia creations , in all probability he simply lifted the phrase from a Third Department report of 1839 whose purpose , though reformist , had hardly been the complete transformation of government policy . |
| 2 | It could have been the extra garlic I 'd put in the Rogan Josh which woke me at 2.06 a.m. , but it was probably the noise Billy Tuckett made falling through the bathroom skylight and killing himself . |
| 3 | At the opposite extreme , paupers ' graves had long been unmarked ; but in between , death had been the metaphorical leveller . |
| 4 | A Council of Representatives of People 's Deputies , consisting of 20 representatives from each republic , would have been the interim parliamentary body ; the proposals did envisage , however , a State Council and an Economic Committee as passed in the final resolution . |
| 5 | I 'm really worried , concerned about the integrity of what has been the finest service in the world . ’ |
| 6 | He could have been the finest brain surgeon England has ever seen … even blind he is a superb concert pianist … |
| 7 | What had been the living style of a whole region , modified to suit all classes of people , became a piece of pleasant antiquarianism for a rich man . |
| 8 | Has the British embassy in Germany made it clear to the German authorities how deeply shocking and despicable have been the racist attacks by Nazi thugs there ? |
| 9 | The fade has always been the safer shot as Ben Hogan — another who , for long , was haunted by a hook — so thrillingly and chillingly exemplified . |
| 10 | Mr McTear , 48 , claims that he would not have started smoking in the mid-1960s had there been the present-day health warnings . |
| 11 | For over three decades these two countries have been the unwilling recipients of acid rain ‘ export ’ on a massive scale . |
| 12 | This has been the unwavering government line since , even after the murder of a 66-ear-old disabled woman by a private care agency worker 16 months ago . |
| 13 | What then are the implications for sectors of traditional activity where books , journals and newspapers have for so long been the unwavering mainstays ? |
| 14 | The woman had also been the nearest she could get to contrite about what had happened in her apartment . |
| 15 | Laporte 's trumping of Wassall on 8 January with a £135m bid for glue maker Evode has been the nearest thing to a typical bid salvo , although there have been some minnow-sized transactions . |
| 16 | There had been the curious tale of the Argentinian scrap metal merchants who had landed on the island of South Georgia , where the United Kingdom had exercised sovereignty since it was discovered by Captain Cook in I775 . |
| 17 | Nevertheless it tasted excellent , or it may have been the dry French cider from my waterbottle that improved the taste . |
| 18 | One of the most puzzling features for historians has been the apparent rise in illegitimacy , a European-wide phenomenon , in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century , which has given rise to various interpretations of working-class sexual life . |
| 19 | Labour Minister , Lee Kim Sai of the Malaysian Chinese Association ( MCA ) who was moved to Housing and Local Government , was replaced by Lim Ah Lek , who had been the victorious MCA candidate in the recent Bentong by-election [ see below ] . |
| 20 | Such has been the normal pattern . |
| 21 | but many of those who were ready to benefit from it could not read Latin , which had been the normal basis for scholarly interchange . |
| 22 | As Bacci emerged through the blue fog that had collected near the door it occurred to the Captain that if Fusarri had been the normal sort of Substitute he would have had to go and report to him at his office , leaving his own smoke-free . |
| 23 | This was particularly evident in space heating : coal had been the normal method of heating for British householders , but with a low coal ration now applied in order to conserve coal for industry , they still had the option of switching on electric fires . |
| 24 | Le Pen , meanwhile , had been cleared by a Versailles court on July 2 of " publicly insulting " the Minister for Public Services , Michel Durafour in September 1988 , by using the word-play " Durafour-crematoire " ( " four crematoire " having been the normal description for the furnaces used for burning bodies in Nazi Germany ) [ see pp. 36230 ; 37683 ] . |
| 25 | In Western music the established framework for stability and order has been the diatonic harmonic system which was developed in the Renaissance . |
| 26 | The trigger for this new genre of ‘ science mysticism ’ has been the extraordinary success of Stephen Hawking 's best-seller A Brief History of Time — which has sold three million copies and forms the basis of a forthcoming documentary about Hawking by film producer Stephen Spielberg — aided by the popular surreal case studies by psychiatrist Oliver Sacks . |
| 27 | It seemed to me that when the top men from the States came over , the first person to oppose them , to make a good confrontational meeting , should have been the European champion . |
| 28 | The way changing class structures and urban experience have moulded sport has been the central concern of the book . |
| 29 | Its functional significance has to be examined in the context of its importance for the ‘ non-organized ’ masses , whose image of Hitler has been the central concern of this work , for the Party faithful , and for the Nazi and non-Nazi élites . |
| 30 | The speeches of Finbar O'Doherty and Eamonn Melaugh were more militant in tone but they did not demur from Hume 's denial of what had been the central purpose of the DHAC — the unity of the working class around a material grievance . |