Example sentences of "has [adv] [be] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has obviously been some attempt to alter and/or censor , but something of the truth can nevertheless be teased out of the fragments that remain . |
| 2 | There has obviously been some continuity of habitation on the site but , quite honestly , there is no way I could classify it other than , perhaps , Romo-Stuart-Georgian ! |
| 3 | This has all been good training for his new post . |
| 4 | That has all been great fun . |
| 5 | ( Although a famous novelist has recently garnered considerable publicity for memorizing his interviews , this has long been standard practice for many sociologists . ) ’ |
| 6 | Unlike the Koran , however , the Bible has long been fair game for spirited literary re-readings . |
| 7 | It has long been common practice to give students isolated passages of poetry or prose , often but not always anonymous , to analyse , discuss , and respond to , in the manner of Richards 's original undertaking . |
| 8 | It has only been burning coal in it ! |
| 9 | It is possible that pollution affects their reproductive and immune systems , but there has only been piecemeal research on this subject . " |
| 10 | The continued dominance of City and Civil Service elites has often been seen as a barrier to dynamism in British industry ; in fact , it has merely been one aspect of a secure and integrated dominant class , linked by kinship , ownership of wealth and distinctive patterns of education . |
| 11 | There has apparently been some misunderstanding about the future of this Club and we have been asked to reassure members that the Club is continuing and that eligibility remains as before . |
| 12 | Investigations conducted among more recent groups of émigrés suffer from the fact that such groups have been disproportionately Jewish ; there has nevertheless been some support for the view that nationality is not a ‘ primordial ’ attachment and that its political importance is likely to depend on situational factors such as the degree of competition for employment opportunities . |
| 13 | Even so , there has already been one triumph : inflation fell to 6% in the year to the third quarter , the lowest rate for 18 years apart from a brief spell in 1984–85 . |
| 14 | There has already been extensive research on these , at Exeter and elsewhere , using computer techniques of control , recording and analysis . |
| 15 | But there has already been some progress in this direction . |
| 16 | Indeed , there has already been some degree of rationalisation of SROs . |
| 17 | ‘ On grass , ’ says Mr Hann , ‘ where you inject into wheel markings you get more damage , as the tine is being pulled through ground on which there has already been some surface shearing . |
| 18 | There has already been some response to this cry for help . |
| 19 | In the United States there has already been some production of material specifically for interactive use , but for most people it is still a question of waiting and seeing what uses , methods and materials emerge . |
| 20 | I have chosen Vaughan because there has already been some analysis of deixis in his poetry — notably by Roger Sell in his article " The unstable discourse of Henry Vaughan " ( 1987 ) . |
| 21 | According to the organisers there has already been considerable interest from a number of European and American dealers . |
| 22 | As I have told my hon. Friend before , I do not think that there has ever been any prospect of any member of the European Community or of the United Nations believing that a United Nations or a Western European Union peace-keeping force could force its way into Yugoslavia against the opposition either of the Yugoslav national army — the JNA — or of any armed force . |
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| 24 | There has always been one factor which has dominated the convictions of those who have sought to establish a religion , or its equivalent under whatever name . |
| 25 | Of course , the desire to obtain control of the written word has always been one indication of the autocratic mind . |
| 26 | ‘ My theory has always been that working practices and the way that careers are structured are not really compatible with having a family as well . |
| 27 | ‘ She has always been that way , ever since she was a little girl , ’ says another of those close to her , Kylie 's great aunt , Mrs Thomas Riddiford . |
| 28 | Whenever Labour has lost office there has always been strong pressure within the party to press for more extreme policies . |
| 29 | There has always been much speculation about the site of this region , guesses including East Africa , Abyssinia , Arabia , Spain , Armenia and Peru . |
| 30 | ‘ That price has always been extreme vigilance , ’ the QC said . |