Example sentences of "been an [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the burgeoning suspicion that his commitment has been in vain , must , as Anita Mason depicts , have been an appalling psychological torment . |
| 2 | But this increased local differentiation cuts across party lines , and especially within the Conservative and Labour parties there has been an increasing ideological polarization , which , though denied expression in the tightly controlled atmosphere of Westminster , often surfaces at the local level . |
| 3 | On the way to Eric 's first hiding place there had been an uncomfortable few minutes when the doctor 's car , in spite of its prominently displayed red cross , had been stopped by a carabinieri patrol . |
| 4 | Possibly her father had earlier taken her up into the workings to show her where he was working ; even so it would have been an apprehensive little girl who made her way along that long tunnel . |
| 5 | The Alliance was committed to economy in local government , and the rates issue had been an effective ideological weapon in the past . |
| 6 | He and the Reverend McQueen set out after breakfast to find the ruins of what McQueen believed had been an ancient pagan temple to the goddess Anaitis . |
| 7 | However , there have been an estimated 900 crimes against tourists in Dublin this year and the growing popularity of the city as an upmarket destination during its year as the European City of Culture has unfortunately attracted a hard core of criminals . |
| 8 | Much of this spending went on new industrial units , schemes that might take years to implement , and for which there may have been an appropriate upper limit . |
| 9 | She 's always been an industrious hard-working careers officer |
| 10 | He had been an unsuccessful amateur jockey some fifteen years ago and had then been assistant to a leading jump trainer in Lambourn . |
| 11 | Four of these seven were Conservative MPs at the date of the appointment , one had been a Conservative MP , and another had twice been an unsuccessful Conservative candidate . |
| 12 | However , they will not be surprised , because they know that , from the beginning , the consultative process has been an absolute rigged farce . |
| 13 | Although there had always been an autonomous Communist Party of Slovakia within the CPCz , no such organization had existed in the Czech lands of Bohemia and Moravia except briefly during the Prague spring of 1968 when such a party was mooted . |
| 14 | Between 1970 and 1990 there has been an average total increase of general practitioners by 500 a year ( 1.5% ) . |
| 15 | Since 1983 , there has been an average annual increase in VSA deaths of 5.4% per annum . |
| 16 | There has never been an ecological golden age . |
| 17 | It had been an horrific triple crash that had left two drivers dead , and the newsreel of that dreadful moment had shown a blazing object being catapulted clear of the wreckage . |
| 18 | The events between the formation of the first National Government and the general election , however , turned what had been an incipient three-party system into an unbalanced two-party system in which the Conservatives , reinforced by defectors from the Liberal and Labour parties , the Liberal Nationals , and National Labour party , were the obvious beneficiaries . |
| 19 | ‘ It has been an interesting three years , ’ he said with a delightful degree of understatement . |
| 20 | It could have been an interesting double act but it was bunkered immediately by all the showbiz flannel . |
| 21 | It could have been an interesting double act but it was bunkered immediately by all the showbiz flannel . |
| 22 | It could have been an interesting double act but it was bunkered immediately by all the showbiz flannel . |
| 23 | Girls THERE has been an important early election result . |
| 24 | The weakness , if not incompetence , of the opposition would appear to have been an important contributory factor in Ronald Reagan 's astonishing early success in seizing control of the agenda in the manner of a Roosevelt or a Johnson , even almost of a prime minister . |
| 25 | As we shall see in the following chapter , mechanization has not been the only process responsible for this , but by enabling the farmer to de-bureaucratize his farm and place greater emphasis on developing the personal loyalty of his workforce rather than relying upon regulations and sanctions , it has been an important contributory factor . |
| 26 | During the long post-war boom , argues Aglietta , such flexibility had not been an important regulating mechanism . |
| 27 | A peasant 's garden would have been an important additional source of food for him and his family and , in good years , any surplus could have been sold to augment his income as well . |
| 28 | Just four years after Charles 's death , Archbishop Hincmar of Rheims , who had been an important political figure throughout Charles 's reign ( though not consistently close to him ) , wrote a treatise , The Government of the Palace , for the young King Carloman , Charles 's grandson , and lent it an air of authority by claiming to incorporate the work of Abbot Adalard of Corbie , who had died nearly sixty years before . |
| 29 | ‘ The financing of small , growth businesses has always been an important national issue , made all the more important by the effects of economic recession , ’ said . |
| 30 | But partly because of the diversity of the French companies involved , and partly because of the distances separating the various European companies working for the CNES and ESA programmes , ‘ catching up with the Americans ’ has been an important unifying goal . |