Example sentences of "[adv] [been] an [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keeping quiet had not only been an error of judgement , it had also poisoned any chance they might have had of entering into a worthwhile relationship . |
| 2 | There has long been an antipathy against council housing in rural districts . |
| 3 | The search for training which fits this description in the management of education is hindered in two ways : it has long been an area for tension between theorists and practitioners and it has from time to time been exposed to management models from fields where practice and purpose are very different from those of education . |
| 4 | Last season Neath never came to terms with the loss of Rowland Phillips and Mark Jones to rugby league , and this season they have done no better in this regard ; the back row , once the fulcrum of the entire Neath effort , has no longer been an area of strength . |
| 5 | This chapter has been a complex one , but it has nevertheless been an exercise in oversimplification . |
| 6 | There has always been an element of surprise at the discovery that Britain is not wholly urbanised . |
| 7 | The truth is that there has always been an element of unreality in this view . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , there has always been an undercurrent of concern that the correlation between the economic performance of Japan and Germany and their bank-based financing systems might be a causal one — in which case the UK 's poorer economic performance might have something to do with her market-based industrial financing system . |
| 9 | What other companies fancifully referred to as ‘ corporate public relations ’ had hardly been an issue at Virgin up till now . |
| 10 | Technological improvement has also been an objective in state policies for the small firm sector . |
| 11 | In addition to the audit of a single building or a whole portfolio of buildings there has also been an increase in demand for the ‘ space audit ’ , usually from office tenants . |
| 12 | Since , however , the House in Reg. v. Morris considered that there had plainly been an appropriation in Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 , this must ( I think ) have been because the Italian student , although he had permitted or allowed his money to be taken , had not in truth consented to the taxi driver taking anything in excess of the correct fare . |
| 13 | Since , however , the House in Reg. v. Morris considered that there had plainly been an appropriation in Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 , this must ( I think ) have been because the Italian student , although he had permitted or allowed his money to be taken , had not in truth consented to the taxi driver taking anything in excess of the correct fare . |
| 14 | The study of prospective memory is a topic which has attracted relatively little research and is not well understood , however , there has recently been an increase of interest in this area ( e.g. Ceci & Bronfenbrenner , 1985 ; Harris , 1984 ; Ellis , 1988 ) . |
| 15 | The last 25 years have certainly been an era of growth unparalleled in the company 's long history , and in this period Wedgwood 's formation and development has involved the acquisition of long-established and leading names in the British ceramic tableware and ornamental ware industry . |