Example sentences of "have [adv] been the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Possibly intending a pun on the word ‘ horary ’ , he named it an ‘ orrery ’ ; and this has since been the usual English word for a mechanical planetarium . |
| 2 | It has long been the largest voluntary nature conservation organisation in Europe . |
| 3 | On European monetary union , it seems to me that it has long been the cherished aim of Conservative Governments to find a means by which we could control the value of our currency — to make it predictable in its exchange rate , as it was for much of the 19th century . |
| 4 | The parliamentary road to socialism has been the major tradition within Britain where the Labour Party has long been the dominant organisational force on the Left and amongst the working class . |
| 5 | Portree has long been the commercial centre of the Isle of Skye . |
| 6 | It has long been the French preference to maintain the Council as the primary decision-making body of the Community , and indeed to reinforce its role ; the Germans want greater powers for the Parliament in Strasbourg . |
| 7 | To be able to sell every vehicle that lands at a UK port and , as a result , to enjoy buoyant prices for used models , has long been the happy position for Mitsubishi 's UK importer , Colt Cars . |
| 8 | We 've thrown in lots of youngsters but really the players ’ budget has basically been the same for five years , ’ he said . |
| 9 | The next pair of readings are concerned with what has perhaps been the single most salient political issue in British education in the twentieth century : the issue of inequality of opportunity and inequality of outcome between social classes — particularly between middle and working class children . |
| 10 | The Spanish Civil War has thus been the real focus of recent debate surrounding the British reaction to European fascism . |
| 11 | MARTIN EDWARDS has not been the only man in Manchester trying to sell something of a sporting nature . |
| 12 | Yet this has not been the only old law turned to by the police . |
| 13 | Yet in Japan this has not been the only reason for being able to use less energy to do the same job . |
| 14 | The revived concern for retributive justice has not been the only response to the failure of the rehabilitative ideal . |
| 15 | Sadly Walter L Jacob & Co Ltd , described in this context by The Observer as perhaps the " closest the UK has to an American-style boiler room operation ! has not been the only licensed dealer to recruit clients in this way . |
| 16 | As we shall see in the following chapter , mechanization has not been the only process responsible for this , but by enabling the farmer to de-bureaucratize his farm and place greater emphasis on developing the personal loyalty of his workforce rather than relying upon regulations and sanctions , it has been an important contributory factor . |
| 17 | Since the Second World War , however , the political control of rural councils has not been the only factor influencing the rate of rural house-building . |
| 18 | Of course , she has not been the only case . |
| 19 | Statistical computing has not been the only impact of modern technology on epidemiology since 1965 . |
| 20 | Weir has not been the only Scottish success story to report this week . |
| 21 | Curiously enough , though , this has not been the major concern of feminist work in the social science disciplines of linguistics and speech communication . |
| 22 | IT HAS not been the best of weeks for managers , a thought with which Graham Souness might agree . |
| 23 | The 1974 World Population Plan of Action has not been the final word in the ongoing debate on this particular problem . |
| 24 | The history of computer graphics in film production has not been the smoothest . |
| 25 | ‘ It was probably the most painful experience I have ever had , going back through this life , this long life , which has not been the tranquil , easy existence people assume it to be . ’ |
| 26 | The fact that the UK government has done none of these things , leads one to suppose that a genuine improvement in the co-ordination of health and welfare services for the most vulnerable and disabled groups in society has not been the real objective . |
| 27 | My contention is that the main cause of the British predicament has not been the British economy but rather the decline of sterling and the failure of British policy to adapt to that decline … . |
| 28 | Short term this has enabled the UK to maintain a state-of-the-art capability , although there has not been the desired reduction in the total percentage of the defence budget committed R&D . |
| 29 | Arsenal boss George Graham feels he has not been the same player since he co-starred for England against Turkey . |
| 30 | The World Cup has not been the same without them . |