Example sentences of "been [adv] [adj] in [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , it has been this area which has been most significant in relation to land development and planning policies . |
| 2 | Last , in terms of performance , the outturn for most intermediaries has been rather poor in terms of profitability , while borrowers of funds have gained from lower commissions and margins . |
| 3 | Even when she was tiny she had n't really thought of him that way , and when she was older , about thirteen , she had secretly been terribly proud in front of the other girls when Georg , who had never seemed to go through a spotty adolescent phase like other boys , used to wait for her outside school so that they could walk up the mountain road together . |
| 4 | The first model , known as the DD-1 , has been highly successful in Japan with nearly 200,000 units being sold at Y58,000 ( about £225 ) within the first year following its launch . |
| 5 | Gone were the colourful historical scenes that had been so much in favour with the Hung Mao . |
| 6 | He 'd been so adamant in Vienna about not looking ridiculous with the ‘ fat old Frau ’ and now he was suggesting productions that were totally unsuitable . |
| 7 | Some of these thinkers — Trotsky , the Austro-Marxists , Nehru or Mao Tse-tung — have been directly involved in politics as leaders of political movements ; others , less clearly affiliated with political organizations — Sartre , the philosophers of the Frankfurt School , modern exponents of liberal-conservative thought such as Popper and Hayek — have exerted a more diffuse influence upon movements of various kinds . |
| 8 | LIFE has been deceptively quiet in Whitehall during the election campaign . |
| 9 | However , although the WDA has remained , it has not been as interventionist in terms of urban policy as has the SDA . |
| 10 | He was the younger of the twin Beaumont brothers , sons of the elder Robert who had been one of the most reliable props of old King Henry 's firm rule , and they in their turn had been as staunch in support of King Stephen . |
| 11 | As we have indicated earlier , though , the dynamic of administrative reform seems to have been fairly arbitrary in terms of central government . |
| 12 | The report alleged that human rights violations had been particularly blatant in areas of armed insurgency , notably Punjab , Kashmir and Assam , where security forces were given a " licence to torture and kill " . |
| 13 | The IBA has been particularly active in relation to programmes about Northern Ireland , and its interference has ranged from banning an entire programme ( eg a This Week report about RUC brutality ) to cutting provocative scenes lasting a few seconds ( such as pictures of flowers on an IRA grave ) . |
| 14 | Volenti would not appear to be applicable but the court might hold that Arthur has been contributorily negligent in respect of his injury and reduce damages accordingly . |
| 15 | It has been quite common in London for nearly 10 years . |
| 16 | Er but they do seem to have been quite common in York in in in less grand rooms . |
| 17 | Over the period 1984 to 1991/2 the level of successful appeals on major retail applications has been consistently high in relation to other types of development . |
| 18 | A a server here and a few clients there networking in between and the systems may have been relatively small in terms of their total hardware capacity . |
| 19 | If the geothermal gradient was as low as 25° C/km preservation of condensate and even oil would have been theoretically possible in parts of the hanging wall . |
| 20 | Gazzer had been seriously disappointed in love on this night . |
| 21 | CUSHENDALL 'S determination to hold onto their Antrim senior hurling crown has been very much in evidence during this year 's campaign to date . |
| 22 | These passages I have already referred to as being extremely indicative of the wonderful girl that Anna Jane was before her accident and I have been very much in mind in the earlier part of my judgement . |
| 23 | Isolating an infected person has long been used as a means of preventing the spread of infection and has been very effective in campaigns against the more serious and highly infectious diseases , such as smallpox ( now eradicated from the world ) , Lassa fever and tuberculosis . |
| 24 | A policy of investment autarky could well have been very costly in terms of lost economic growth [ Dunning , 1979 ; Gomulka , 1979 ; Reddaway et al. , 1967 , 1968 ] . |
| 25 | The interactionist approach has , for instance , been very important in explorations of ‘ deviant ’ or unorthodox sexuality , particularly directing researchers to the significance of labelling events and the importance of subcultural responses . ’ |
| 26 | Though up to now he 's been too much in love with himself , ’ said the chief inspector frankly , ‘ to show much interest in girls . |
| 27 | It was just that she had been too much in love at the time to see it . |
| 28 | Hilbert he had been too much in awe of to ask . |
| 29 | In this way the governors of nursery schools and primary schools with nursery units have been actively involved in decisions about special educational needs . |