Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [been] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the crisis began in the late 1970s , spending on education below tertiary level has been at rock bottom and health little better . |
| 2 | Such an approach is , of course , not exclusively suited for " outsiders " analysing another community 's talk : in fact , most studies of this kind have been by monolinguals studying conversations in their own or related dialects . |
| 3 | Perhaps emphasis at this level has been upon soil evolution rather than upon soil dynamics , which has been treated in relation to land capability . |
| 4 | This conc has been in progress all today . |
| 5 | During the election campaign the party had asserted that the advanced welfare state was safe in its hands , but this promise quickly appeared to be a less than certain guarantee of the continuation of welfare programmes which in some cases had been in effect since the 1930s . |
| 6 | English Estates had been in existence for some years , but its traditional role had been factory building and commercial development on green field sites with 5,000 factories and offices on 508 estates . |
| 7 | Most of his full-scale skirmishes had been in NoGos or Urban Blight areas . |
| 8 | This car has been in use since Easter and has been enthusiastically praised by the people , mainly volunteers , who have been staffing it . |
| 9 | As has already been noted , however , most of this research has been on villages , rather than the more difficult scattered settlements ; the atypical patterns , such as the strings of villages in chalkland valleys , have received a disproportionate amount of attention ( Fig 15 ) |
| 10 | While much of the focus in this chapter has been on manufacturing where the reliance on small producers is relatively unusual among advanced economies , the small firm is dominant in many other sectors . |
| 11 | this Airacomet has been in Ed Maloney 's collection for a number of years . |
| 12 | This cemetery has been in existence since 1965 and is lovingly tended by regular visitors who often bring fresh flowers to mark the last resting place of a faithful friend . |
| 13 | Although railed tramways had been in use in various parts of the country from the middle of the 18th century , generally in connection with coal mines , the first true railway in Scotland was the line from Kilmarnock to Troon . |
| 14 | Much of the debate in social services in the past 30 years has been about community care — what it is an how to achieve it . |
| 15 | This process has been at work since the Industrial Revolution . |
| 16 | The most significant growth area for Blackwells ' Art & Poster Shop in the last few years has been in calendars . |
| 17 | More than 300 workers have been on strike since 29 January over a dispute about enforced lay-offs . |
| 18 | Does he appreciate that for every single day that he and his right hon. Friend have been in office in Whitehall place , we have similarly lost 25 farm workers and 14 farmers ? |
| 19 | At the end of December 1980 , the returns to the Committee on Jail Reform indicated that almost 7,000 ( 8 per cent ) of the 92,000 undertrials had been in gaol for over one year , and 2,500 of these had been held for more than two years . |
| 20 | Some people have been in hospital for 34 years and have never had their independence . |
| 21 | Some decks have been in production virtually unchanged for two decades ( the sublime Linn Sondek , for instance ) . |
| 22 | All my examples this month have been in Fair Isle . |
| 23 | Much of the literature in this area has been of US origin , and the more general applicability of such managerial strategies to other countries needs , therefore , to be considered in the light of evidence from cross-national studies . |
| 24 | The next strongest performance has been by Giorgio de Chirico , up 690% at an average price of £55,000 even after a 25% fall last year . |
| 25 | Of these , coatings and electronic materials have been under pressure due to the recession in user industries such as cars , computers and construction . |
| 26 | This government has been in office so long that this view of personal freedom has become written into detailed policy and into legal planning advice . |
| 27 | part of this interpretation has been by politicians and clerics as well as by judges . |
| 28 | And why not ? — the British Army had been in Osnabrück since 1945 . |
| 29 | Peripherality is a major source of the economic problems of depressed regions in Europe , and the British government has been at pains to stress the role of the Channel Tunnel in reducing Britain 's isolation from potential markets . |
| 30 | In my experience most people who suffer a myocardial infarct have been under pressure with associated exhaustion and fatigue for a prolonged period . |