Example sentences of "have been a [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Elsley spoke for many booksellers up and down the country : ‘ Unemployment and the fear of unemployment have been a major adverse factor , during the year and particularly in the period up to Christmas . ’ |
| 2 | Of his education little is known but it seems likely that his family engaged a private tutor for him — he may have also have been a private fee-paying pupil at the West of England School for the Deaf at Exeter . |
| 3 | There would , indeed , have been a good economic case for some sharing of the burdens between Boards , since all benefited from standardisation though some incurred larger costs than others . |
| 4 | I have been a lifelong Labour supporter , but I have to say that under the present Government I was able to save in my last years at work without seeing my savings disappear in inflation . |
| 5 | Three All Black thrashings have been a cross Welsh rugby has had to bear alone , as in the same period , since June 1987 , this is three times more than any other home country has had to bear . |
| 6 | the burgeoning suspicion that his commitment has been in vain , must , as Anita Mason depicts , have been an appalling psychological torment . |