Example sentences of "this [noun sg] has be [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Funding for research of this kind has been on a scale not approached by any other area of sociological enquiry .
2 Next day the guns of the Tower fired a victory salute and Sir John Ligonier wrote to Cumberland on the 25th : ‘ This town has been in a blaze these two days .
3 The most exciting discovery this year has been of a very fine Umbrian crucifix of around 1250 hitherto completely concealed by mediocre seventeenth-century painting optimistically attributed to Titian in the nineteenth century .
4 Typically the means of issuing commands using this system has been via a window-icon-mouse-pop-up menu ( WIMP ) display , where the mouse is used to point at icons or menus in windows ( which are subsets of the screen working area ) .
5 This increase has been as a result of consultation with clinicians , he said .
6 All that we have written in this section has been in a light vein , but there is a very serious side to it .
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