Example sentences of "has [adv] [been] [det] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is why meat has long been such a symbol of worldly power . |
| 2 | The Democratic Party chairman , Mr Ron Brown , said that ‘ there has not been such a decision so out of touch with American values since the sale of arms to the Ayatollah . |
| 3 | ‘ I caused the party a great deal of anxiety over my views ’ he explained and added ‘ but strangely enough with this book it has not been such a struggle . |
| 4 | David Rigg , commercial development director , reminisced nostalgically that there has not been such a boom in his business since the rush to decolonise Africa some 30 years ago . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ I travel an awful lot with my career but I have always kept up my links with Derry and the football club has always been such a part of me . ’ |
| 6 | Indeed we may say that there has always been such a tendency , in the patristic period likewise , to collapse the distinction between the two natures . |
| 7 | why has there been such a Star Wars plan ? |
| 8 | There has never been such a vote of no confidence in the country since Gallup began measuring the urge to emigrate in 1948 . |
| 9 | There never had been such a moment , for critics ; there has never been such a moment since . |
| 10 | In a study of miraculous images of Mary which weep , the author , Father Hebert SM , after saying there is a long history of these writes , ‘ There has never been such an outpouring of tears as there has been in this century … more explicitly during the ten years , 1971–1981 , particularly so in Italy and in the United States ’ . |