Example sentences of "has [been] [prep] " in BNC.

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31 The average audience has been between 200,000 and 250,000 .
32 A measure of your success in a coaching session is when the subordinate feels the discussion has been between two equals and that together you have arrived at the best course of action .
33 It is currently considered that a House consisting of some 650 members is appropriate ; the figure has been between 600 and 650 for many decades although there is nothing magic about this particular size .
34 The most marked shift has been between different sectors : the percentage of output ( Gross Domestic product , or GDP ) accounted for by manufacturing has decreased while the proportion attributable to service industries has increased .
35 The main historical tension here has been between the institution ( typically the university ) and the professional body .
36 In the post-war period , expenditure on the military has been between 5 and 10 per cent of GDP .
37 Inter-rater reliability was assessed across codes , individuals and data-points ; mean weighted occurrence/ non-occurrence reliability has been between 84 per cent and 95 per cent on each occasion .
38 How good would you say the relationship has been between erm the Housing , Housing Office and the tenants , how is the relationship for all of you ?
39 In broad terms , the division has been between those who see an accumulation of reforms and a gradual erosion of bourgeois dominance as leading to a situation in which a relatively easy and peaceful transition to a socialist society will be achieved ; and those who regard reforms largely as mere palliatives , value the struggle for reforms mainly for its effect in developing working-class consciousness and organization , and envisage the achievement of socialism as a more abrupt event ensuing from a more or less violent final confrontation between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat .
40 ‘ Admit that this has been between us since we first saw each other .
41 One of the major divisions has been between the Japanese and the Europeans .
42 In recent years , the major underlying conflict , stoked up by personality clashes between union leaders , has been between the industrial union ethos of the NUR and the continuing craft aspirations of ASLEF .
43 The latest trend has been towards the darker types , still usually sedimented , and today wheat beer has a good 25 per cent of the Bavarian market .
44 His poems can be awkward and blunt but you feel any revision has been towards truth rather than beauty .
45 The main thrust has been towards breeding Tridacna gigas and T. derasa , the common edible species , but with aquariums in mind commercial breeders are now raising the beautiful T. crocea .
46 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 .
47 Both suggest that in the area of sexual morality the change has been towards less restraint , less control and more choice .
48 The tendency then , has been towards greater reliance upon market forces and competitive freedom ; a shift of emphasis in the way governments aim to trade-off financial sector policy goals and in the regulatory means by which these goals are to be secured .
49 However , India produces some very good quality rugs , particularly in Kashmir , and the trend over the last few years has been towards finer and finer items .
50 The diachronic evidence shows that , for a century or more , the trend has been towards retraction and backing .
51 The direction of tertiary education since the mid-seventies , as the process of contraction has continued , has been towards more responsiveness , more accountability , reduced autonomy .
52 The trend in recent years has been towards establishing more horizontal committees in the interests of greater internal co-ordination .
53 As well as this , the trend over the past few years has been towards greater accountability from business in the form of information about matters other than profit and loss .
54 World spatial systems afford an enormous scope for review but perhaps the dominant trend has been towards the differentiation of the earth 's surface on a more realist dynamic basis to replace a more static arid functional treatment that had been current previously .
55 It said : ’ The balance of evidence over the last month has been towards continued recession .
56 The trend through evolution , however , has been towards an increase in size and complexity .
57 Mr Saatchi has filled the twin role of chairman and chief executive for several years , but Mr Louis-Dreyfus 's appointment is designed to bring in financial skills at a senior level at a time when the company 's business has been under pressure .
58 Lately Mr Kaifu has been under pressure to hand out minor cabinet posts to some young stars within the party who had been tainted by the Recruit affair .
59 Spain in particular , with its relatively large , shambling army ( a relic from the Franco era ) cut off behind the Pyrenees , has been under pressure from NATO to put more money into its air force and navy .
60 Bowlby has been under pressure ever since the Cheltenham Gold Cup , over his riding tactics on Golden Freeze , coincidentally brought down at The Chair in Thursday 's John Hughes Memorial Chase here .
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