Example sentences of "have [adv] been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There have since been a series of proposals to re-establish some form of compulsory treatment in the community from the Mental Health Act Commission ( in 1986 and again in 1988 ) , the Royal College of Psychiatrists ( 1987 ) , and the British Medical Association ( 1989 ) . |
| 2 | Liberal democracy benefits capitalism not because capitalists control workers ' minds but because the industrial proletariat have rarely been a majority and are a now shrinking minority in advanced capitalist societies . |
| 3 | He takes it for a walk — such walks have long been a ritual activity of the country 's more optimistic male poor , the dog more expensively jacketed than the chap . |
| 4 | The fells above Coniston have long been a source of the widely used Westmorland slate ( see Borrowdale ) , but the mountain known as Coniston Old Man and its associated fells are equally interesting as an area of copper-mining activity , and one nearby location is known as Coppermines Valley . |
| 5 | BADGES have long been a cheap , effective way of making a statement — whether it 's Ban The Bomb or I Love Madonna — but do n't throw them away when your fervour wanes . |
| 6 | Finally , some 520 million year old teeth found in fossilised form have long been a controversial subject — did they come from an early vertebrate creature ? |
| 7 | For example , in the teaching of English it was observed that ‘ inadequate assessment procedures have long been a weakness in schools reflecting uncertainties about aims , objectives and what constitutes progress ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ These schools have long been a closed shop and many have n't been inspected for ages . |
| 9 | I have long been a avid reader of books about islands . |
| 10 | I have long been a professor in the University Of Life . |
| 11 | Many of the old industrial communities have long been a desert for women 's employment . |
| 12 | Caricatured images of ‘ natives ’ — African , Asian and Arab — and selective and often fanciful representations of their histories and cultures , reinforced in comics , adventure stories and films , have long been a powerful presence in the official curriculum of British schools ( Mackenzie , 1984 , 1986 ; Klein , 1985 , ; Ahier 1988 ) . |
| 13 | Local rates have long been a controversial source of local authority income . |
| 14 | With the uncertainty about oil prices and the expense of both gas and electricity , many people are opting for wood-burning stoves These have long been a favourite in Northern Europe and America , and they can be amazingly efficient in heating most of the house , quite apart from being decorative . |
| 15 | Gangsters have long been a good source of drama for the filmakers and there 's barely a star in Hollywood who has n't been ‘ mixed up ’ on screen with the mob at some point in his career . |
| 16 | Much of this veneration is due to the fact that rugs , in addition to their aesthetic value , have long been an integral part of the religious experience of the Islamic world . |
| 17 | I have long been an admirer of Hannah , and I have read the books and seen the television programmes . |
| 18 | As your host I have perhaps been a little too brusque . |
| 19 | But I had to recognise that there have only been a couple of traumas in ten years and the trouble rate is likely to hot up as I move towards 40 . |
| 20 | ‘ Instead she has , in effect , admitted that the problems have obviously been a major topic of conversation at the highest level . ’ |
| 21 | Tt er and i in a sense there 's kind of been an upward trend in terms of progression through that , that reform but within that there have obviously been a number of and in a sense what we 've been coming to terms with is , is what has been causing those , those variations , those changes in that policy . |
| 22 | There have already been a string of job cuts . |
| 23 | There have already been a string of job cuts and more are certain to follow around Christmas time to cut the party 's £10 million overdraft . |
| 24 | There have already been a series of devastating accidents — most notably at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl . |
| 25 | There is a growing recognition that an effective response to crime and crime prevention must reach beyond the conventional boundaries of the criminal justice system , and there have already been a number of practical initiatives which either attempt to draw upon the wider resources of the community , or which rely upon what is usually known at the ‘ inter-agency ’ or ‘ multi-agency ’ approach . |
| 26 | IBM 's internal networks have thus been an unwritten but real part of its winning culture . |
| 27 | In America landfill standards have generally been a matter for individual states . |
| 28 | Although , as we have seen , videodisc systems have generally been a commercial disappointment , training has been an constant and effective area of application . |
| 29 | The others have just been a job . |
| 30 | Either the mental strategy worked or the weather became slowly but imperceptibly better , for I was not air-sick and have usually been a ‘ good sailor ’ by air or by sea ever since . |