Example sentences of "this [noun sg] have be [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Funding for research of this kind has been on a scale not approached by any other area of sociological enquiry . |
2 | In fact a more limited regime of this kind has been on the Soviet agenda for the Mediterranean for many years . |
3 | Such an approach is , of course , not exclusively suited for " outsiders " analysing another community 's talk : in fact , most studies of this kind have been by monolinguals studying conversations in their own or related dialects . |
4 | The chief way out of this difficulty has been for empirical studies to focus on surrogates for power , rather than directly on the exercise of power itself . |
5 | The two children in this story have been through very bad experiences . |
6 | ‘ This case has been through the due process of law , has been carefully considered at every stage and reviewed at frequent intervals . |
7 | Perhaps emphasis at this level has been upon soil evolution rather than upon soil dynamics , which has been treated in relation to land capability . |
8 | This conc has been in progress all today . |
9 | At the same time , it is only fair to point out that my task in this instance had been of an unusually difficult order . |
10 | While this struggle has been in the making , gay men in youth work have remained silent . |
11 | This car has been in use since Easter and has been enthusiastically praised by the people , mainly volunteers , who have been staffing it . |
12 | As has already been noted , however , most of this research has been on villages , rather than the more difficult scattered settlements ; the atypical patterns , such as the strings of villages in chalkland valleys , have received a disproportionate amount of attention ( Fig 15 ) |
13 | While much of the focus in this chapter has been on manufacturing where the reliance on small producers is relatively unusual among advanced economies , the small firm is dominant in many other sectors . |
14 | If this card had been with either North or South the slam would have been a 75-per-cent chance . |
15 | This programme has been through the first round of application approvals which saw the Regional Council gain around £17,000 to capital and around £600,000 to revenue . |
16 | this Airacomet has been in Ed Maloney 's collection for a number of years . |
17 | ‘ This boy 's been in the wars . |
18 | The midwife said to me , ‘ This child has been on this earth before ’ and I thought that was rather an odd thing to say , but the midwife seemed quite adamant . |
19 | While at the current time the main focus of this work has been to better assess need through localities , work is being undertaken to identify ways in which budgets could be allocated to localities and purchasing carried out at the local level . |
20 | This issue has been of particular importance within central government in recent years as the traditional task of the civil service — that of offering objective , impartial advice — has come under scrutiny . |
21 | This cemetery has been in existence since 1965 and is lovingly tended by regular visitors who often bring fresh flowers to mark the last resting place of a faithful friend . |
22 | I 'd heard it said that th the development of this site has been in the development plan for twenty years |
23 | This process has been at work since the Industrial Revolution . |
24 | Accordingly , the major contribution of economics to policy over this period has been in providing some short-term corrections to economic activity whilst being able to do little to alter the long-term trend . |
25 | ‘ This place has been in the same family for over a hundred years , and it was going strong before that time . |
26 | However , this outcome had been by no means certain when de Gaulle flew back to England on 4 June 1944 , to be briefed about the invasion which was about to begin . |
27 | this business has been in erm family hands since nineteen twenty six ? |
28 | Now if you cast your mind back to when we started the er discussion I did say I would talk about refer erm recommendations to you if you felt that this meeting had been of some benefit to yourself |
29 | Right in the course of our er er com our meetings Danny erm I will be asking you to recommend me to people but if , but only if you feel that this meeting has been of some benefit to you . |
30 | Next day the guns of the Tower fired a victory salute and Sir John Ligonier wrote to Cumberland on the 25th : ‘ This town has been in a blaze these two days . |