Example sentences of "[verb] been an [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er it , it does seem to me it would 've been an enormous problem for the Chinese Communist Party had absolute egalitarianism worked . |
| 2 | Capital provision to support these two areas is scarce and the 1990s are going to test even the most supportive administrations to meet urgent demands for library extensions and preservation/substitution programmes , neither of which has been an established part of institutional budget planning , nor likely to receive much more than sympathy from the funding councils , except perhaps in cases where enormous growth in student numbers have caused such pressures on space . |
| 3 | Wizz Jones began his musical career fronting a country and skiffle band in his home town of Croydon , Surrey in 1958 , and has been an established member of the British and European acoustic folk/blues scene ever since , with artists like Eric Clapton citing him as a major influence . |
| 4 | Since its restoration at Duxford several years ago , this Dridekker has been an infrequent visitor to airshows and was most welcome flying alongside the other replicas in the Great War Combat Team . |
| 5 | In recent years there has been an increased reliance on statute law , for example , in relation to public order and the powers of the police , but , of course , here too , the judges have a role to play in the interpretation of the statutory provisions . |
| 6 | Inevitably , there has been an increased distrust of party politics in the lesbian and gay communities since the Clause debacle . |
| 7 | A by-product of the computer revolution has been an increased understanding by scientists and humanists of each others ' methods and preoccupations . |
| 8 | During recent years there has been an increased use of audiovisual media such as tape-slides , films and video-tape , and to a certain extent computer-based instruction . |
| 9 | But global expansion has been an expensive objective for banks : they lent vast sums on poor terms to borrowers who could shop around for money , starting in Japan . |
| 10 | This fight has been an expensive business for me personally , but I do not mind that . |
| 11 | Lawrence added : ‘ I know it has been an expensive season for fans , but I hope they will dig deep to back the team in their final home game . ’ |
| 12 | Nor can it be claimed very convincingly that socialism has been an effective counter-ideology to nationalism , or that the socialist movement has in any substantial way curbed the actions of nation states . |
| 13 | The poll tax has been an outstanding success for the right hon. Member for Wirral , West ( Mr. Hunt ) — it has got him into the Cabinet . |
| 14 | Chairman Sir Norman Fowler said : ‘ He has been an outstanding member of the Government for a number of years . |
| 15 | And , curiously , it took a rugby league man , Graham Lowe , the New Zealander who has been an outstanding coach at home , in England and now in Sydney , to really pin-point the reason why the All Blacks did not retain the Webb Ellis Cup . |
| 16 | When the Employment Service was formed in 1987 , he joined the Executive board and has been an influential figure in our development as an Agency . |
| 17 | This participation is demonstrated in several articles , including ‘ Combating inequality ’ on page 11 , which describes how the involvement of local communities in community mapping in the West Bank and Gaza Strip has been an essential part of the process . |
| 18 | Religion is the ‘ universal obsessional neurosis of humanity ’ which has been an essential stage for humanity to pass through , in the same way as every child must have a neurotic phase . |
| 19 | He admitted : ‘ This has been an absolute nightmare for me and my family . ’ |
| 20 | Wedgwood has been an international business for over 230 years . |
| 21 | Here , though there has been an extensive debate on the practice concerning long run versus short run , economic theory is essentially clear cut . |
| 22 | Swan agrees that there has been an embarrassing decline in portraiture , which he ascribes partly to its labour-intensiveness : ‘ Someone like Millais was earning the equivalent of two to three million a year . |
| 23 | To impute that Dr Runcie has been an unsuccessful archbishop by quoting falling numbers in that part of the Anglican Communion which is the Church of England is to ignore a whole complex of reasons for a reduction in church-going , including , no doubt , the encouragement of a highly competitive and success-orientated society . |
| 24 | There has been an ominous growth of Serbian nationalism , which is independent of Kosovo , but uses the situation in Kosovo as a means of arousing popular sentiment . |
| 25 | One of the main impacts of the new basic technologies like molecular electronics and ceramic superconductivity has been an apparent growth in the science dependence of many industrial sectors . |
| 26 | As a non-musician who has been an avid devotee of rock music for 25 years , I was delighted with his decision and bought some guitar magazines , including your excellent publication , to get some idea of the cost involved . |
| 27 | Esquire , as it has taken form in America , has been an avid chronicler of games and the people who play them for all of its fifty-eight years . |
| 28 | Although this has been an indifferent year for the club in the league , Hibs are in knockout mood again . |
| 29 | Furthermore , the BCS points out ( ibid. ) that the gap between the trend in recorded burglaries and victimization is much lower in recent years : there has been an appreciable increase in burglary victimization between 1981 and 1983 of 9 per cent , while recorded burglaries increased by 24 per cent . |
| 30 | Certainly , there has been an encouraging amount of interest at our own showrooms . ’ |