Example sentences of "has [adv] been a [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has long been a nightmare in Moscow that the region could be highly vulnerable to Islamic militants from the indigenous population 's ethnic and religious brothers across the borders in Afghanistan and Iran . |
| 2 | It has long been a nightmare in Moscow that the region could be highly vulnerable to Islamic militants from the indigenous population 's ethnic and religious brothers across the borders in Afghanistan and Iran . |
| 3 | THE seeds of popular revolt that appear to be taking root across Romania were sown last Thursday in the north-western town of Timisoara when President Nicolae Ceausescu 's security forces moved to evict the Protestant pastor , Laszlo Tokes , who has long been a thorn in the side of the regime . |
| 4 | Yeah — i have not mentioned Ronny before — he has not been a regular in our national team — but he did play against Holland in our 0–0 away draw and he was also the man that headed in the 3–0 goal on wednesday in Norway 's humiliation of Poland . |
| 5 | All sperm is tested twice to ensure that there has not been an error in the initial testing . |
| 6 | ( One wonders how much the latter has a bearing on the former , notwithstanding the fact that Riley herself is adamant that being female has not been an issue in her career ) . |
| 7 | In Eastern Europe , policy has driven trade relations ; trade has not been an end in itself . |
| 8 | This chapter has been a complex one , but it has nevertheless been an exercise in oversimplification . |
| 9 | It means divorces last year fell to 179,000 , the first time there has ever been a drop in petitions . |
| 10 | I do not think there has ever been a period in history when there has been such a violent and irreversible change in the political and social order ( unless it be the long-term consequences of the Russian Revolution ) . |
| 11 | Moving breathing apparatus sets from the store in the laundry building at Hunterston A to Hunterston B and back again has always been a hassle in the past . |
| 12 | There has always been a sense in which music is a secret , arcane , almost Cabbalistic , art . |
| 13 | Mr Watkins , once a commander of a nuclear submarine , has always been a believer in nuclear power . |
| 14 | ‘ There has always been a welcome in the hillsides for Englishmen in love with the Welsh rhythms and landscape , just as many people from Wales found jobs and homes in the flourishing towns and cities of industrial and commercial England . |
| 15 | There is a risk in eating animal produce , there has always been a risk in eating animal produce , but it is not statistically getting worse . |
| 16 | When Scholes proposes ‘ studying texts ’ he invokes the terminology of semiotics , but he is , in effect , working in a tradition of rhetorical analysis that has always been an element in institutional English study , and which in the 1930s resulted in the work of Leavis and Thompson and other Scrutineers on contemporary culture and its artefacts . |
| 17 | There has also been a change in mood about nationalization . |
| 18 | There has also been a change in the holiday habits of the Madeirans themselves , who used to retire to their summer villas at Monte or Santo da Serra to escape the heat or flocked to the rocky shoreline around Funchal to bathe every day . |
| 19 | There has also been a change in art , and the art market . |
| 20 | There has also been a breakthrough in the breeding of soya beans ( 126 million acres are grown annually worldwide ) where resistance to damage by glyphosate has been genetically incorporated . |
| 21 | Over the same period there has also been a transformation in its geography . |
| 22 | At the same time that there has been a shift in the size and importance of manufacturing within the economy as a whole , there has also been a transformation in the geography of manufacturing within the country . |
| 23 | A mild winter has led to a drop off in sales of salt to local authorities and there has also been a reduction in the market for potash in Britain as a result of the uncertain future in farming . |
| 24 | The biggest initiative has been the virtual nationwide provision of two-year part-time course for full-time teachers leading to Certificates in Education ( FE ) , but there has also been a growth in Diploma and higher degree courses and there seem likely soon to be additional initial BEd . |
| 25 | There has also been a move in history away from two-term single modules , which were designed to give students a lower workload each week and more reflective time , to either standard one-term singles or two-term doubles . |
| 26 | There has also been a meeting in Bremen during which the conditions for the return of the Bremen collection were worked out . |
| 27 | There has also been a drop in the number of cigarette smokers . |
| 28 | Amongst elderly women , there has also been a decrease in activity rates , but it is much less pronounced . |
| 29 | Technological improvement has also been an objective in state policies for the small firm sector . |
| 30 | As the number of full-time jobs has declined , there has also been an increase in the number of what are called ‘ flexible workers ’ , that is temporary , part-time or home workers . |