Example sentences of "been [art] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Nevertheless it tasted excellent , or it may have been the dry French cider from my waterbottle that improved the taste . |
| 3 | In Western music the established framework for stability and order has been the diatonic harmonic system which was developed in the Renaissance . |
| 4 | The Miners ' Welfare had long been the central social institution , and it became the focus of activity during the strike too . |
| 5 | At no other time has either left or right been able to form a government without the support of the FOP , which has therefore been the essential junior partner in coalition either with the CDU/CSU or , less often , with the SPD . |
| 6 | One of the most significant developments has been the increasing open employment of young people with severe disabilities , particularly severe intellectual disabilities . |
| 7 | There have been the odd sour ones , from men who object to what they call sexism in the Labour Party , ie , ‘ assisted places ’ on the Shadow Cabinet . |
| 8 | there may have been the odd light shower just to lay the dust but not a lot more . |
| 9 | The US military space and intelligence agencies — as well as the civilian federal government had not merely been the key early purchasers of computers . |
| 10 | Steel-Maitland could at last be moved from the Ministry of Labour , which had in many ways been the key departmental post of the administration , and in which he had throughout been ill-regarded but undisturbed . |
| 11 | France had been the western European nation most opposed to American concepts of data free flow . |
| 12 | Although recently wound up , one spin-off has been the in-house desk-top publication of the Technical Bulletin itself — the excellent colour illustrations have been printed from computer digitised colour images taken from high quality transparencies . |
| 13 | Leading that charge has been the right hon. Member for Henley ( Mr. Heseltine ) — that elegant nonentity whose only claim to fame was that he helped rid the nation of the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) . |
| 14 | The bridgehead has been the small Western community , which now has the use of a state-of-the-art office services joint venture to be found at 50 Gorky Street in central Moscow , as well as ‘ Reprotsentr ’ , in which Rank Xerox is a partner . |
| 15 | While the institutions rushing for the exit have been the small British firms , the institutions entering these markets — in addition to a number of major British banks — have been the comparatively enormous foreign houses . |
| 16 | It 's been the usual frantic week , beginning with a local press and radio call in Cambridge for the panto . |
| 17 | There had been the usual final frenzy to get the parks ready for festival week , and various people had been smitten with untimely summer flu . |
| 18 | Possibly intending a pun on the word ‘ horary ’ , he named it an ‘ orrery ’ ; and this has since been the usual English word for a mechanical planetarium . |
| 19 | Along with the clatter of clunk-clicking up and down the nation this week , there have been the usual apocryphal murmurings about the dangers of seat belts . |
| 20 | The price which has been paid for the lower rate of tax on income has been the additional National Insurance charge and also the locking up of the profits in excess of the salary of £43,500 as retained profit in the company . |
| 21 | The Suez debacle had been the great emblematic event for Healey , as for many others of his generation , vividly demonstrating the gulf between imperial pretence and potential . |
| 22 | Tazmamert has been the great forbidden subject in Morocco . |
| 23 | Gin had been the great popular comfort of Paradise Street in her childhood , gin and tea , so she took it as someone from another background might have made a dish of bread and milk . |
| 24 | One tripper on 1960 had been the future Black Dwarf journalist , feminist and socialist , Sheila Rowbotham , fresh out of Yorkshire Methodist boarding school and en route to Oxford . |
| 25 | Because largely up to the present time in the er , as far as older people are concerned , then the only alternative to the current truth , and direct provider of services , has been the straight private sector . |
| 26 | In fact , her target audience has always been the unenterprising middle- classes , in big private companies as much as in the public sector , looking for security in the form of a home , a pensionable job and a company car . |
| 27 | There had been the occasional martial bishops , of course , ever since Odo of Bayeux came across with the Conqueror , not least perhaps because of the knightly or aristocratic houses from which some prelates came , but also because the bishop was often the sole or wealthiest magnate present to defend an exposed region when so many others were away on continental engagements . |
| 28 | Football has been the other major sport and has always produced good teams , and Halling must have been among the first to play under floodlights . |
| 29 | Geraldine Ferraro , who had been the Democratic vice-presidential candidate in 1984 , once again suffered because of her husband 's alleged connections with the Mafia and failed to win the Democratic nomination for a Senate seat for New York . |
| 30 | Ould Taya was supported by what had been the sole legal party , the Democratic and Social Republican Party ( Parti républicain démocratique et social — PRDS ) , and by the army . |