Example sentences of "has [adv] been [adj] to [art] " in BNC.

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1 The Cabinet , appointed by the President , has hitherto been subordinate to the UNIP central committee .
2 Known as the Cabinet War Rooms , the complex has only been open to the public since 1983 .
3 Because the Left has not been sensitive to the established debates on the British constitution it has not been attentive to the potentialities for change which have flowed from the absence of legal and constitutional limits on Parliament .
4 Because the Left has not been sensitive to the established debates on the British constitution it has not been attentive to the potentialities for change which have flowed from the absence of legal and constitutional limits on Parliament .
5 ( 12 ) No election held in pursuance of this Act shall be deemed to be vitiated in consequence of any technical defect in the proceedings which has not been prejudicial to the interests of any party concerned in such election .
6 The weather has not been kind to the river in recent weeks and today is no exception .
7 The 20C has not been kind to the Jews and the community in Prague has never recovered from its suffering at the hands of the Nazis .
8 This statement of the legal base has always been important to the European Court , because it helps situate a measure in its legislative context and is thus a valuable aid to the schematic method of interpretation .
9 The University Art Gallery in the Portland Building has always been open to the public , but it was necessary to know one 's way around the campus to take advantage of this .
10 In part it has also been due to a lack of suitable models of how the combination of attributes could take place .
11 A particular case of course is in relation to Bosnia Hercegovina , erm Russia has traditionally been close to the Serbs erm and therefore is worried , not only about the situation within erm the old Yugoslavia itself , Bosnia Hercegovina , but also about the reaction erm within Russia if it is seen to take too anti a Serb line erm in the , in the crisis that 's being faced there .
12 The coalition includes members of the Social Democratic Party , which has traditionally been opposed to the nuclear option .
13 This fall in operative trainees has primarily been due to the reduced demand following the recession in construction activity since the property collapse of 1973 .
14 Organisations such as the British Mountaineering Council see this as the thin end of the wedge where payment will be demanded for access to land which has previously been open to the public .
15 This approach has recently been subject to an effective critique by Forty ( 1986 ) , who points out that designers have always been handmaidens to the business interests they serve , and to separate them out as self-determined arbiters of cultural form is even less convincing than in the case of high art which strives for such autonomy .
16 Furthermore , while linguistics has certainly been useful to the study of rhythm as it has to all aspects of poetry , there has been an unfortunate tendency to suppose that the language of verse is itself rhythmic .
17 Diana has never been close to the Princess Royal , and demonstrated that she now has no intention of pretending otherwise .
18 It is widely assumed that ‘ real ’ country people are in favour of development as a source of new jobs and housing while the rich commuter is only concerned to protect his equity and a style of living which has never been available to the locals .
19 THE ACOUSTIC of Birmingham Town Hall has never been kind to the mistier recesses of Debussy and Ravel .
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