Example sentences of "has been [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Japan , talk of corporate governance has been about as common as sararimen in bowler hats . |
| 2 | In Britain — outside the centralised and bureaucratic collective bargaining machinery which typifies the public sector — the trend has been towards more plant-level bargaining , more company-level agreements and generally more participation in collective bargaining by union workplace and management representatives at local level . |
| 3 | He has been on nearly two dozen foreign trips on behalf of LA in the past few years and some of his questionable financial dealings have been investigated . |
| 4 | Although some progress has since been made by the meticulous work of the late Sir Ian Richmond and Roger Goodburn , it has been on too small a scale to support any attempt at a chronology of the history of the site . |
| 5 | One of the members of his staff , Wing Commander Ken Underwood Ground , has been on so many accident investigations now that he is regarded as an unofficial honorary Inspector of Accidents by AIB . |
| 6 | It means you have to treat the first invoice as an error , and possible invoke the DOCTOR ( which has been with most Sage products for ages ) to correct things , and then go and do it right . |
| 7 | Frankly , it is not an outstanding record of achievement , considering there has been at least one Second Division club in the semi-finals for 30 of the 47 seasons since the last war . |
| 8 | Apart from our Nimrods , there has been at least one overflight by a Tupolev . ’ |
| 9 | The picture since 1982 has been one of net zero change although there has been at least one new arrival , Boots PLC . |
| 10 | Is he aware that there has been at least one case in which , having seen a name badge , a claimant looked in the phone book and traced the Benefits Agency employee to his home . |
| 11 | There has been at least one occasion where we 've caught a cold because this was not done . |
| 12 | Since nationalization , it has been at least 80 per cent ( Bain and Price 1983 ) . |
| 13 | But most architects involved in liability cases feel that there has been at least some contribution to his own losses by the claimant . |
| 14 | And as I said , Mrs Mary she 's the national treasurer and has been for over thirty years . |
| 15 | And has been for over 40 years . |
| 16 | But this is my dwelling place and has been for nearly four months now . |
| 17 | It is in the system and has been for as long as I can recall . |
| 18 | ‘ Sir Ralph Grunte , and has been for as long as I can remember . ’ |
| 19 | You see I I think er er probably one of the best erm Ministers of er of er Education that er has been for quite some considerable time and I bet you throw your hands up in horror when I say this you will totally disagree and I 'm talking here cos his name 's just slipped out of my mind . |
| 20 | For some time the weapons states have maintained that the peaceful trade in peaceful atoms has been for purely peaceful purposes . |
| 21 | In recent years the alpine trend has been for less adventurous climbing : bolted instant classics from climbers ' such as Michel Piola — safe rock routes with a savage backdrop . |
| 22 | Why his Lordship should have concluded that the facts did not give rise to the issue is unclear , but subsequent events have shown that the decision has been of much greater importance for the scope of the right of public meeting than his Lordship imagined it would be . |
| 23 | If you ask in general , why social science has been in so selective in its use of Freud , and so one-sided in its interpretation , the answer seems to be , that since the nineteen twenties and up until very recently , Western social science has been primarily dominated by what I would call , cultural determinism , and by that I mean , a school of thought which believes that , to use a term borrowed from one of its founding fathers , Emile Durkheim , social facts have social causes . |
| 24 | She spoke with the air of an old warrior who has been in so many battles that bravery has become commonplace . |
| 25 | Whilst colleges continue to offer HCIMA courses by part-time , block release and in special cases full-time study , by far the greatest development has been in more flexible study modes using the distance learning , self-study packs . |