Example sentences of "[noun sg] has [adv] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But because agriculture has n't been in G A T T or up until recently has n't been in G A T T agricultural protectionism has grown throughout that period right . |
| 3 | Oracle Corp has n't been in the applications business that long , but the company is already onto release 9 of its Oracle Applications suite of financial , government financial , manufacturing , and personnel applications . |
| 4 | The few reported cases that have come to autopsy have generally shown bilateral cerebral lesions but the right sided damage has always been in the region of the occipito-temporal junction whereas the lesions on the left have not been uniformly located ( Benson , Segarra and Albert , 1974 ; Meadows , 1974 ; Whiteley and Warrington , 1977 ) . |
| 5 | ESL has been a particularly dynamic area of language teaching and one area of provision has always been for students who wish to continue their general education in this country or to take up training opportunities in MSC-funded schemes . |
| 6 | The strength of this Division has always been in the determination and ability of the people working within it . |
| 7 | Equally , triumphalism of the dotty kind has not been in evidence at all ; nobody , for example , has let slip the belief that the present knowledge of genetics is so certain and detailed that the future of the human race can now be predicted . |
| 8 | The Enterprise Co-ordination Programme has now been in operation for eighteen months and a revised , enhanced budget has been negotiated with the Department of Trade and Industry for the year ahead . |
| 9 | Val Smith , 35 , who worked for the company for 19 years before she was sacked , said : ‘ Closure has always been on the cards . |
| 10 | ‘ My mind has not been on dust , Emilia . ’ |
| 11 | The ME Polartek Sweater has hardly been off my back for the past month or so . |
| 12 | In consultation with the Department of the Environment and the Scottish Office , which are represented on MOD 's housing task force , my Department has recently been in contact with all local authorities , seeking information on their arrangements for the provision of housing for ex-service personnel . |
| 13 | Crime has always been with us and Halling was no exception and it has been estimated that Kent 's crime rate in the 13th century was higher than any other county , and a statement by Prof. James Given , of Michigan , says that the percentage of murders at 23 per 100,000 in Kent was higher than the U.S.A. average of today . |
| 14 | The ship building industry has also been in decline for a decade or more , and in each year 's report has documented well that decline . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The other half of his ambition has never been in doubt . |
| 17 | The annual survey system for planning public expenditure over the medium term has now been in use for 30 years . |
| 18 | Philson has also been on trial with Spurs and is interesting Rangers and Manchester United . |
| 19 | Graham Turner 's future has also been to the fore recently but for different reasons . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I 'm not even sure that his main pleasure has not been in proving to Madame Duvalle that he was right about me . |
| 23 | US hardcore has always been about self-squandering and auto-mutilation . |
| 24 | The pub has n't been in use for several years . |
| 25 | All mechanical parts seem in very good order and the vehicle has not been in any accidents . |
| 26 | Subsequent Acts have tended to produce more detailed requirements , but the main thrust has always been for nationalized industries ' accounts to produce , as a minimum , the amount and kind of information that a PLC has to produce . |
| 27 | The quality of his work has always been of exceptional high standard and featured in every major project in the company . |
| 28 | To all this is added ( and it must be emphasised that Catholicism has always been in the ascendancy ) , a healthy input from the Jewish fraternity whose civic and educational emphasis greatly increases the town 's well-being , albeit from a proportionately tiny community . |
| 29 | In Nepal , dolphin habitat has traditionally been in deep clear water with swift currents , but hydro-electric development is occurring in many of the susu 's favourite remaining areas . |
| 30 | This form of mimicking was described by the great biologist Henry Bates in the l9th century ; and such Batesian mimicry has long been of interest , particularly to students of evolution . |