Example sentences of "[ex0] have [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Across the whole of the NHS there has barely been a scratching of the surface . |
| 2 | The original money was quickly invested and there has since been a stream of rights issues , particularly from companies in Thailand where the fund is 37.8 per cent invested . |
| 3 | On the fiftieth anniversary of the dispute , in 1976 , several books appeared on the subject , producing a surfeit of published research to which there has since been no significant addition . |
| 4 | SELL-THROUGH , as the retail sector of the video market is obscurely known , is at the moment very much a bull market , and there has lately been a growing shift to releasing more recent movies in this way . |
| 5 | Whereas the role of executive princess touring the troubled countries of the Third World has gone to the Princess Royal , there has lately been much written on the theme of the Princess of Wales as ‘ caring princess ’ . |
| 6 | Although there has probably been a long-term decline in serious violence in Europe over the past several centuries , the relationship of this trend to patterns of theft and other property crime , or to broad forces of social change , remains obscure . |
| 7 | Malawi has kept a public corporation , and yet there has probably been more direct interference by the government in broadcasting there than in Zambia . |
| 8 | Since it is an A-type star there has probably been no real change , though it may be very slightly variable . |
| 9 | The report admits that " there has probably been a persistent tendency within the world 's energy industry to understate the technical potential for improvement and substitution " . |
| 10 | They are evolutionary in that , although many of the ‘ trials ’ , ‘ pilot studies ’ and ‘ demonstrations ’ have had different origins , there has frequently been a common thread linking one to another , and lessons learned from one have been applied in another . |
| 11 | There has thus been a significant debate about the extent to which the state still dominates in international relations . |
| 12 | There has thus been no overall change in balances at the Bank of England , but banks ' holdings of call notes and bills have risen . |
| 13 | I try to turn on the lights but there has either been a power cut or the club 's generator has been switched off . |
| 14 | On the basis of these figures , there has clearly been some kind of shift in the axis of the economy from manufacturing to services . |
| 15 | In many parts of the country there has clearly been a shift of settlement in Saxon times and the implication of this is that a number of Saxon settlements remain to be found , away from the medieval villages , in what are former open field areas . |
| 16 | ‘ There has clearly been change in South Africa let's take advantage of it and get more work for the town 's companies and more jobs , ’ he said . |
| 17 | ‘ There has clearly been change in South Africa let's take advantage of it and get more work for the town 's companies and more jobs , ’ he said . |
| 18 | ‘ There has clearly been change in South Africa let's take advantage of it and get more work for the town 's companies and more jobs , ’ he added Coun. John Williams , the Labour group leader , said Coun. Richmond 's invitation was premature : ‘ He is being too hasty . |
| 19 | Investigations conducted among more recent groups of émigrés suffer from the fact that such groups have been disproportionately Jewish ; there has nevertheless been some support for the view that nationality is not a ‘ primordial ’ attachment and that its political importance is likely to depend on situational factors such as the degree of competition for employment opportunities . |
| 20 | Throughout Ireland as a whole , there has generally been an anti-comprehensive ethos in the education system supportive of both class and sectarian divisions in schooling and which is now eroding only in part . |
| 21 | Table 5.2 Volume of international bond issues by type ( $ billion ) The pattern of issuance in the bond markets has varied considerably over time , although there has generally been a predominance of banks , industrial companies and supranational organisations ( such as the World Bank ) . |
| 22 | ( ii ) Liability for negligence.Decisions of the courts show that there has generally been a reluctance to interpret a clause as excluding liability for negligence , unless clear words are used . |
| 23 | There has rarely been a clearer example of the extent to which a Conservative leader sets the keynote for the party the extent to which it is moulded round its leader . |
| 24 | There has already been a rapid consolidation among Sweden 's property investors . |
| 25 | Even so , there has already been one triumph : inflation fell to 6% in the year to the third quarter , the lowest rate for 18 years apart from a brief spell in 1984–85 . |
| 26 | ‘ On grass , ’ says Mr Hann , ‘ where you inject into wheel markings you get more damage , as the tine is being pulled through ground on which there has already been some surface shearing . |
| 27 | Unified control to eliminate any danger of overlapping , for which there has already been one unfortunate instance . |
| 28 | But there has already been some progress in this direction . |
| 29 | There has already been some response to this cry for help . |
| 30 | There has already been a switch of emphasis away from sheltered housing for the elderly to other groups in special need , and what money has been available has been targetted to those areas which have not been well served in the past ( peripheral housing estates , remote areas and less attractive small towns ) , or to developments offering very special facilities ( eg sheltered housing for the elderly deaf ) . |