Example sentences of "been a [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Serrano had not been a member of the Falange prior to 1937 , but he had been a close personal friend of José Antonio Primo de Rivera and , after the war , became a fervent advocate of his ideas . |
| 2 | But up to then it had been a right mild winter . |
| 3 | It had been a long hot day on the farm where I help my father with his large dairy herd . |
| 4 | Although there had been a long established tradition of community and private forestry schemes , it was not until the launching of the Saemol Undong ( or New Community Movement ) in 1970 that it was possible to conceive of a nation-wide forestry policy and programme . |
| 5 | And it was , had been a long weary road for these two women as they travelled back to Bethlehem , with their own thoughts and their fears . |
| 6 | It 's been a long old year . |
| 7 | the finish is at Drumlanrig castle … they 've been running … slipping … sliding over the mounatins for seven hours … they 've climbed into the clouds … they 've crossed the streams … they 've run through the glens for mile after mile … the Oxfordshire team of Bunn and Thetford were up to second place but have finished fourth … its been a long hard day … |
| 8 | ‘ It has been a long hard season for Nigel , and obviously he 'll be a little bit down after what happened at Wembley , ’ said Bingham . |
| 9 | Leave it all till Monday Lynda , it 's been a long hard week . |
| 10 | Indeed , it is the only occasion on which there has been a substantial national strike in support of any industrial group of workers in Britain . |
| 11 | She was lodged in Faulkner Square with Florence O'Connor whose mother , Bessie Murphy , had been a famous theatrical landlady ; supper on the table at eleven o'clock , a fire lit in the bedroom , a jug of hot water outside the door at eight-thirty sharp , Sundays excluded on account of Mass . |
| 12 | In the early 1870s a six-week round trip for two people from London via Belgium , the Rhine Valley , Switzerland and France — perhaps still the standard tourist itinerary — cost about £85 , or roughly 20 per cent of the income of a man earning £8 a week , which would have been a respectable servant-keeping income in those days . |
| 13 | ‘ For the past three years I 've been a respectable married man , young lady . |
| 14 | Some observers went further and criticised him for seemingly assuming that progress from civil through political to social rights has been a painless historical process . |
| 15 | Because of its pivotal role in sustaining the apartheid system , education has always been a central political issue , and is perceived by all parties to the conflict as a terrain over which political struggle occurs . |
| 16 | There should have been a nice young man on the Sunningdale marriage circuit , and then a nice house in Ascot , and probably a cottage in Devon , and two boys at a good preparatory school in Surrey . |
| 17 | So , it 's been a nice warm day has it ? |
| 18 | It was to have been a nice little earner . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There had been a great Victorian pile of a hospital there then , maybe still was unless they had demolished it , its chimney concealed inside a mock campanile . |
| 21 | There have been a great many studies of market failures which provide an a priori case for Intervention — welfare economics texts such as Broadway and Bruce ( 1984 ) or summary chapters in books such as Varian ( 1978 ) will serve . |
| 22 | It is not surprising , for there have been a great many developments aimed at putting more carp on the bank . |
| 23 | There had been black bitterness , and there had been a great aching void for longer than she cared to remember now . |
| 24 | IT 'S been a great 10 days for Scots living in England . |
| 25 | This would not matter so much if Pound had not been a great technical innovator in verse writing . |
| 26 | There has been a great black smudge all down the crag ever since … ’ . |
| 27 | Trading forecasts On this there does not , at least , seem to have been a great internal dispute . |
| 28 | There has been a great national exercise , co-ordinated by the careers service nationally and by my Department , to establish the true position . |
| 29 | We had a collection of cars , mostly rather old , but here was an example of what had once been a great cultural status symbol . |
| 30 | ‘ In fact it 's been a great few weeks for me . |