Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [been] [prep] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | There has only been on eprevious report of the presence of epoxide hydrolase in normal colonic tissue . |
| 32 | The updated Accord has only been on sale in Britain for six weeks , but already Honda 's well ahead of its target of three and a half thousand sold by Christmas . |
| 33 | SINBAD has been cleaning the windows in Channel 4 's Brookside since 1984 , although he has only been on a regular contract for the last two years . |
| 34 | What she has achieved is remarkable given she is still very young and has only been in this business a couple of years . |
| 35 | The reviewer has only been in office for eight months but so far has not had cause to uphold a single application for a review . |
| 36 | Exemplar , which has only been in development since the beginning of the year ( UX No 423 ) , will be used for creating , storing and retrieving application objects across multiple platforms and networks . |
| 37 | Marian welcomes the more interventionist role available to the Court under the new Act which has only been in force since October 1991 . |
| 38 | Since the First Directive has only been in operation for a matter of weeks , much has still to be learned about its full impact . |
| 39 | It has only been in the last year or so that the Government has started to grapple with major areas of social policy like education and housing . |
| 40 | The system has only been in place for a month but already , says ‘ we are seeing the benefits . ’ |
| 41 | If the first retailer has only been in business a short time before the second retailer opens his store then it is unlikely that anything can be done . |
| 42 | Jaromil has discovered that writing can be what reading has familiarly been for the ordinary person : an escape , a shelter , a door to the alternative self . |
| 43 | I have explained to the hon. Gentleman why the funding for the Housing Executive is not as easy this year as it has perhaps been in former years . |
| 44 | And they are threatening , because it is offensive and undermining to be told that the life one has led has merely been one of servility , that it has not been of truly ‘ human ’ value , that one has been a ‘ fembot ’ or a ‘ puppet ’ . |
| 45 | This approach characterizes much of the brief and rather shameful history of anthropology , where the study of Man has not been of you and me so much as of those other strange folk whose bodies , habits and beliefs were alien , but whose lands , raw materials and pagan souls were so promising . |
| 46 | Applebey concluded that , whilst useful to lawyers , the pre-trial review in the county court civil action has not been of enormous assistance to the ordinary person trying to conduct his or her own case . |
| 47 | Current refinements , no doubt with Christmas present buying in mind , include boxed sets of three or more related cassettes from Warners — for example , all three of James Dean 's movies for £29.95 , or for the same price , Marilyn Monroe in The Prince and the Showgirl , The Misfits and ( a bit of a scoop , since it has not been on video before ) Some Like It Hot . |
| 48 | He added : ‘ I 'm astounded he has not been on the fringe of the Dutch team . ’ |
| 49 | Mason has not been on the losing side since joining Blyth 16 games ago . |
| 50 | Saunders , who has scored 11 goals in 35 international appearances , has not been on a losing side since August 23 . |
| 51 | An untitled drip painting by Jackson Pollock which has not been on the market since 1949 is estimated at $1–1.5 million ( £666,000–1,000,000 ) and will be the highlight of this sale of contemporary art . |
| 52 | High points of the show are large-format charcoal and red chalk drawings from 1898–99 , a number of landscapes of the area around Worpswede , and a horizontal format variation on the theme of ‘ Child Blowing a Horn ’ , which has not been on the market since the 1930s . |
| 53 | There , the emphasis to date has not been on regulation per se , but on building a culture sensitive to the management of conflicts of interest . |
| 54 | The emphasis amongst researchers on gender , therefore , has not been on increasing the participation of girls in education . |
| 55 | ‘ My mind has not been on dust , Emilia . ’ |
| 56 | But I incline to think that our grandfathers and grandmothers were in the right of it , and that no one can claim to understand Wordsworth who has not been to Hawkshead and Ambleside . |
| 57 | Relations between Egypt and Libya have been erratic since Colonel Gaddafi seized power 20 years ago , and he has not been to Egypt since the 1973 Arab-Israeli war . |
| 58 | So far Probyn has not been to impressed with the results . |
| 59 | But the celebration of the Friend , which sometimes takes the form of an apparent self-abasement by the Poet , has not been to everyone 's liking . |
| 60 | In profit-oriented organizations this emphasis has not been to the exclusion of performance measures for the simple reason that , because of the existence of the profit measure , the stewardship accounts can be analysed to yield pointers to performance . |