Example sentences of "[adv] been an [noun] [prep] [noun] " 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 | I have long been an admirer of Hannah , and I have read the books and seen the television programmes . |
| 3 | There has long been an antipathy against council housing in rural districts . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This chapter has been a complex one , but it has nevertheless been an exercise in oversimplification . |
| 7 | There had always been an inclination among ministers to preach on their Nonconformity and not on their Christianity and to end up ‘ talking politics ’ . |
| 8 | There has always been an element of surprise at the discovery that Britain is not wholly urbanised . |
| 9 | The truth is that there has always been an element of unreality in this view . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Partly because , like any adolescent , he needed a different identity for himself ; but partly , perhaps , because he had always been an admirer of outlaws and vagabonds and especially of Matt Dillon , star of ‘ Gunsmoke ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ I have always been an admirer of Dalglish as a player and a manager . |
| 13 | What other companies fancifully referred to as ‘ corporate public relations ’ had hardly been an issue at Virgin up till now . |
| 14 | Technological improvement has also been an objective in state policies for the small firm sector . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It has brought together expertise in pedagogy , learning resources , library provision and a range of curriculum subjects both at county level and in each school , and this has inevitably been an occasion of staff development and awareness-raising for all those involved . |
| 17 | THE Northern League 's Easter ‘ Ground Hoppers ’ weekend gathers pace : there 's even been an enquiry from Cork and a chap in Birmingham who says we can use his name to guarantee Northern League hospitality . |
| 18 | It may have simply been an offer by Roe which he could n't afford to ignore . |
| 19 | He did not find Lawrence and Morris easy to reconcile but since " the House in R v Morris considered that there had plainly been an appropriation in Lawrence 's case , there must have been because [ the victim ] , although he had permitted or allowed his money to be taken , had not in truth consented to the [ accused ] taking anything in excess of [ what was agreed ] . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Declaring himself ‘ deeply troubled ’ by the rise — from 264kgs last year to 392kgs so far this year — he said some people were underestimating the problem because there had not yet been an influx of misusers to drugs clinics . |
| 23 | However , B contended that , since he had never been an employee of MGN , MGN was not entitled to deduct income tax from the payments . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |