Example sentences of "have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I want to forget that a big chunk of my life has been about being as good a dissident as possible . |
| 32 | But the Conservative record has been about more than increasing spending . |
| 33 | In contrast the long-wave school focuses more precisely on technology , though it is notable that much of the debate within that school has been about what causes technological change and how that change should be seen as part of a wider system . |
| 34 | But the rhetoric of the past quarter of a century has been about prosperity founded on technology as advanced as that found anywhere , and about economic power to match that of the United States and Japan . |
| 35 | Thus , a government report in 1970 concluded that , for the period 1954–68 , ‘ the underlying upward trend in the percentage of the manual labour force on shifts in manufacturing has been about 1 per cent per annum . ’ |
| 36 | Much of the debate in social services in the past 30 years has been about community care — what it is an how to achieve it . |
| 37 | Most of this book has been about mainstream mental health care of adult people . |
| 38 | The lady is looking for a husband and she has been about the world sufficiently to know that I am not one of those . |
| 39 | Part of today 's debate has been about an increase in unemployment which has hit this country like so many others . |
| 40 | While the debate surrounding this reform has been extensive , there is reason to argue that ‘ Most of the debate has been about controlling local authority expenditure , about voters , about redistribution among households and about administrative issues ’ ( Muellbauer 1987 , p. 7 ) . |
| 41 | So our National Anthem has been about a bit , particularly when you think that it came , probably came from , or was used in , erm a piece of music simply by Haydn . |
| 42 | So as I say , ours has been about a bit , it 's been borrowed by various people . |
| 43 | They 'll need the friendship with the staff and fellow inmates , because Grendon , for the last 30 years , has been about confronting yourself and that 's not easy . |
| 44 | ‘ Over the last six months the most common request for information has been about Ecstasy , ’ he says . |
| 45 | This week has been about the library . |
| 46 | The struggle has been between the Czech people and the security apparatus behind the Communist party . |
| 47 | The struggle has been between the Czech people and the security apparatus behind the Communist party . |
| 48 | The legal dispute over the relics has been between Mr John Claridge , who excavated them in 1931 , and his niece , Mrs Georgina Smith , the daughter of his brother , Geoffrey , who died in 1986 . |
| 49 | The average audience has been between 200,000 and 250,000 . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | The main historical tension here has been between the institution ( typically the university ) and the professional body . |
| 54 | In the post-war period , expenditure on the military has been between 5 and 10 per cent of GDP . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | 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 ? |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | ‘ Admit that this has been between us since we first saw each other . |
| 59 | One of the major divisions has been between the Japanese and the Europeans . |
| 60 | 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 . |