Example sentences of "[adv] has [been] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The issue on CD of these recordings which one tended lovingly on LP for so long has been one of the joys of my collection . |
| 2 | Yet he alone has been responsible for bringing about some of the seminal works of this century , Bartok 's Music for Strings , Percussion and Celesta among them . |
| 3 | The really phenomenal success of these materials during the last thirty years or so has been due to the combination of cheap and rapid mass-production with adequate toughness — added of course to chemical inertness , lightweight and bright and cheerful , not to say garish , colours . |
| 4 | Exceptional in its moderacy , the report discounted the fear of imitative crime , arguing that ‘ it certainly has not been proved that the increase in juvenile crime generally has been consequent on the cinema ’ . |
| 5 | ALTHOUGH the bond market generally has been yo-yoing with the fortunes of the Gulf war , one issue is selling like hot bagels . |
| 6 | It always has been desirable for governors in special schools to have some knowledge of the curriculum in mainstream schools and for this awareness to be reciprocated . |
| 7 | The junior health minister , Tim Yeo , retorted : ‘ Labour always has been soft on crime and always will be soft on crime . |
| 8 | Ironically , the government really has been true to its policy of noninterference in the ‘ free market ’ where women 's opportunities are concerned , though in other areas it has often recognised the paradox that non-interventionist policies require intervention to make them work . |
| 9 | The bulk of this book so far has been concerned with looking at what happens when people lose something . |
| 10 | Research so far has been concerned with one segment of A , catalogue use . |
| 11 | A lot of our discussion so far has been concerned with this kind of " saying " , but I have purposely avoided introducing any of the technical jargon of semiotics ( the theory of signs ) and this is now leading me into difficulty because the ordinary use of words in social anthropological discourse is crudely imprecise . |
| 12 | The majority of the discussion so far has been concerned with the assessment of children 's artistic rather than their aesthetic development . |
| 13 | The new Transaction System from Micro Focus Plc ( CI No 2,166 ) represents a major departure for the Newbury , Berkshire company that up to now has been famed for its Cobol products and development tools rather than for production system software — but the market for Unix transaction processing systems is still wide open because scarcely any have been sold as yet . |
| 14 | The system represents a major departure for the Newbury , Berkshire company that up to now has been famed for its Cobol products and development tools rather than for production system software — but the market for Unix transaction processing systems is still wide open because scarcely any have been sold as yet . |
| 15 | Imitation , they say , is the sincerest form of flattery , and the Taiwanese , masters of mimicry , are going ahead with an ambitious plan to copy a style of rugby that until now has been alien to them . |
| 16 | The life of the farming families here has been harsh for hundreds of years but this harshness has been intensified by the laws on land inheritance and land revenue introduced by the British , which have already been described . |
| 17 | In addition to the restoration work , J&F Johnston Overseas has been involved in the construction of office buildings and hotels in Accra . |
| 18 | The existence of a relationship between increased remuneration and profits on the one hand or growth on the other is capable of less impressionistic assessment , and indeed has been subject to detailed research . |
| 19 | Moran bought the freehold of the site from the Government four years ago and since then has been involved in delicate and at times heated negotiations to take possession from the leaseholder , an educational charity , the British Federation of University Women . |
| 20 | On some days the top of Pea Hill has been bathed in brilliant sunshine , while the valley of the River Wear ahead has been awash in a sea of grey , with tentacles of fog creeping outwards along hedges and gulleys into fields . |
| 21 | Thirdly , the application of the rules of natural justice , prior to the introduction of fairness , was not and never has been uniform in its operation . |
| 22 | Miss T. was never accepted into that faith by baptism or otherwise and therefore , as the sect has asserted in a statement to the press , ‘ T. is not and never has been one of Jehovah 's Witnesses . ’ |
| 23 | Liver fluke is not and never has been present in the islands . |
| 24 | This too has been conspicuous in all the areas of business which we have examined ; but never before when when he was likely to be confronted with so much debate and such a variety of decisions . |
| 25 | The Transport and General Workers Union too has been active In the industry , and its latest recruitment drives is also aimed at casuals . |
| 26 | Sister Marie was a teacher for 20 years , and a provincial of the Loreto sisters for 12 years , and more recently has been involved in pastoral care in the prison service at Strangeways and Risley . |