Example sentences of "[adv] been [noun] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While World Cup matters have only been part of the Board 's committee business this week , the speculation as to whether Welsh reservations would carry weight has been immense . |
| 2 | They had both apparently been part of the group clustered around the door ; had that been mere coincidence , or had it been Harry Martin that Luke had been so engrossed in talking to ? |
| 3 | Secretaries of State for Trade and Industry may come and go but Sir Jeffrey Sterling , chairman of the P&O group , has long been part of the furniture at 1 Victoria Street . |
| 4 | Fortunately , the answer lay close at hand , in that sense of the redeeming power of personal example which had for so long been part of the mental furniture of the British middle classes . |
| 5 | Constructed as a spoof documentary about a political candidate for the US Senate whose promotional ads are pop videos and whose campaign bus is a mobile trading floor , it joins the dots of a diagram — Eighties politics as the flip-side of Sixties counter-culture — which has long been part of the landscape ( and which could do with an update ) . |
| 6 | In reality , like the Visigoths , they had long been neighbours of the Romans . |
| 7 | The supermarket , the fast-food joint , the parking lot have all been projects of the practice : but a Macdonalds which floats , a parking lot with 20 cars deeply buried under asphalt , and its most celebrated work , the series of catalogue stores for the Best company where boxes are smashed into and eroded , with trees growing through them , façades peel or tilt , distorting the relationships between the predictable elements of the landscape . |
| 8 | France , Spain and Italy have all been stalwarts of the EC . |
| 9 | I had already been part of the theatre working as an ASM at the Cambridge Arts Theatre , not with the University but with the |
| 10 | Independent readers , with their heroic sponsorship of The Garden Venture , have already been part of the quest for a new operatic voice . |
| 11 | This has always been part of the role , but it has not often been done well . |
| 12 | Collection of statistics , such as the housing returns , has always been part of the central department 's work , but the more specific information currently requested that can form part of long-term planning is a relatively recent development . |
| 13 | The station concourse was a seething mass of people , civilian and uniformed , with a fair spattering of the drunks that had always been part of the city 's landscape when he had ridden up from Galloway on weekends free from school . |
| 14 | ‘ The police have always been instruments of the government . |
| 15 | McWilliams is one of the most talented jump jockeys in the land but he has not always been flavour of the month and that 's a pity . |
| 16 | The principle of " guilt by association " was introduced ; people who had once been members of the Communist Party or a group sympathetic to that party , however long before , were smeared as security risks and their careers ruined . |
| 17 | Many reasons may be adduced for the Polish uprising of November 1830 : the Russians ' two-year hunt for " Polish Decembrists " ; the tsar 's reluctance to be separately crowned as King of Poland ; the refusal of St Petersburg to attach to the " Congress Kingdom " of Poland the provinces to the east which had once been part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ; the emergence of Polish literary figures who " understood romanticism as embodying a patriotic call to restore the old republic within its old frontiers " ; the decline of the Polish economy ; the inspiration of the events of 1830 in France and Belgium ; and the arrest , just before the rising , of a number of militant soldiers and students . |
| 18 | Ltd. ( ‘ the dock company ’ ) as the company responsible for the operation of the port , which had formerly been part of the Chatham Royal Dockyard , and the fourth and fifth defendants , Crescent Wharves Ltd. and Ship Link Terminals Ltd. , as occupiers of berths and land in the port from which they carried on their businesses . |
| 19 | He had secured the support not just of members of parties which had formerly been members of the ruling coalition , but also of the Democratic Party of the Left ( PDS — the former Communist Party ) and the Greens . |
| 20 | A typical Victorian gentleman of enormous energy and breadth of interest , he had combined the office with being a Guardian of the Poor , a Magistrate , a Musician of some repute , working for Stockport Sunday School and the Infirmary , and had also been Chairman of the short-lived Stockport School Board in the 1870s . |
| 21 | There has also been criticism of the Government 's shifting from a pilot scheme it has been running since 1989 , in which secondary teachers have been linking with primary staff in 76 schools to provide their specialist input . |
| 22 | Seven of its members had also been part of the previous Labour administration — Thorvald Stoltenberg , Johan Joergen Holst and Gunhold Oeyangen in identical posts , and Kjell Borgen , Finn Kristensen , Oddrun Petersen and Tove Strand Gerhardsen with different portfolios . |
| 23 | Perhaps many other abbots had also been monks of the houses they eventually ruled , and Cnut did not always take much interest in their selection . |
| 24 | French-trained Col. Guei had also been chief of the national fire brigade . |
| 25 | For the important post of Director of Visual Arts the current favourite would seem to be the art critic Achille Bonito Oliva who has long-standing associations with the Biennale , but there has also been mention of the art historian and art critic Giulio Briganti and the Director of Bologna 's Galleria d'Arte Moderna Giovanni Castagnoli . |
| 26 | He had also been President of the International Association for Mass Communication Research for 18 years . |
| 27 | Here , productive base includes some aspects of services , if they have traditionally been part of the reason for an area as opposed to a consequence of the accumulation of population in some area with a pre-existing rationale . |
| 28 | OATS had previously been part of the scholarship scheme , but dropped out about fifteen years ago when its commercial pilot training activities took precedence . |
| 29 | He had won the republic 's first direct presidential elections on Oct. 27 , 1990 [ see p. 37788 ] , having previously been Chair of the Supreme Soviet since January 1990 [ see p. 37195 ] . |
| 30 | Guido di Tella , the new Defence Minister , a liberal Peronist who had briefly been president of the Central Bank in 1982 , was hitherto ambassador to the United States . |