Example sentences of "it [verb] be an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The army refused to become involved in what it maintained was an ‘ industrial ’ strike and , anyway , it was incapable of running the electricity industry . |
| 2 | What it needs is an historian who is n't afraid to jazz things up a bit — sidestep the facts and move the goalposts . |
| 3 | The last few years suggest that if there is a majority in the land it has been an anti-Labour majority . |
| 4 | It has been an obvious target for economy-minded governments . |
| 5 | It has been an experience which I have enjoyed . |
| 6 | The year since Mandela was freed may have been pretty interesting politically ; but for the Armed Response boys , it has been an absolute ball . |
| 7 | It has been an exhausting , exhilarating week . |
| 8 | On balance it has been an enjoyable task and a great privilege to undertake on behalf of the Club necessitating searches through some 4,000 documents , including old copies of the Standard back to 1895 . |
| 9 | It does take time , about two hours for each member of staff when preparation and writing is included but it has been an investment that has repaid the school with great dividends . |
| 10 | At best it has been an unwelcome overhead ; often it has been a non-productive one . |
| 11 | ‘ It has been an act of faith to keep going . |
| 12 | It has been an excellent few weeks for the Treloar club . |
| 13 | For 20 years it has been an offence for anyone to drive a motor vehicle if he has more than 80mg of alcohol in ever 100ml of blood . |
| 14 | It has been an unmistakable part of the testimony of Christian believers throughout history . |
| 15 | It will begin to ‘ make real ’ the fact of her husband 's death and permanent departure from her life , so everything possible should be done to give the occasion dignity , beauty , and a feeling of thanksgiving for his life ; for this is a memory she will carry with her always , and it is one from which most widows can draw some comfort if it has been an uplifting experience shared with her family and friends . |
| 16 | It has been an uphill battle ever since his father sent a tearful 11-year-old from the security of his Benin City home to board at West Buckland public school in Devon . |
| 17 | It has been an evocative experience reading these articles , rolling back the years to what was then the greatest adventure of my young life , and these experiences are just as vivid today . |
| 18 | Ferguson said : ‘ After losing Lineker , Gascoigne and Paul Stewart , it has been an enormous upheaval for them — but they are starting to build again . |
| 19 | But it has been an uphill struggle . |
| 20 | Instead , it has been an attempt to marry a value-laden choice of issue with objective methods of data collection . ’ |
| 21 | It has been an awful long time in the development , but V M Technologies , the semiconductor development affiliate of ASCII Corp , the software development company run by Kazuhiko Nishi , which has been having a rough time of it of late , has finally announced that it has completed the preparation to sell its long-promised home-grown microprocessor fully compatible with Intel Corp 's 80386 , the first 80386 clone developed in Japan . |
| 22 | Thus a focus on the emotional dimensions of relationships — whether on feelings of affection or feelings of duty — tends to suggest that if there has been any discernible change in a single direction over time , it has been an increase rather than a decrease in the significance of the feelings which people have for their relatives . |
| 23 | So far it has been an air war : some 15,000 sorties have cost the allies less than 25 aircraft — an astonishingly light price — though five of these were RAF Tornados , lost during very hazardous low-level night attacks on massively defended targets . |
| 24 | Some of these byroads have developed a heavier traffic since they were first laid out , and in these instances it has been an easy matter to take in more of the verges and to widen the road surface . |
| 25 | It has been an axiom of historical interpretation to attribute the failure of reform , in its eighteenth- and nineteenth-century forms , to the absence of a Spanish ‘ middle class ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ It has been an honour to have you here , Li Shai Tung . |
| 28 | It has been an international effort , with key work conducted in England , Scotland , Sweden , the USA and Australia . |
| 29 | All in all , it has been an interesting experience . |
| 30 | ‘ But it has been an extremely friendly parting , without any acrimony . |