Example sentences of "has [been] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | While numbers of new AIDS cases reported officially each month have remained relatively steady , there has been a big increase in those needing expert medical and nursing advice at home with a 24-hour on call back up . |
| 2 | There has been a marked increase in reports of deaths as a result of torture in Turkish police stations . |
| 3 | She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and , as Leda , was the mother of Helen of Troy , and , as Saint Anne , the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes , and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments , and tinged the eyelids and the hands . |
| 4 | It is a memorable evocation , casting a spell over the reader : ‘ She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her … ’ |
| 5 | Adultery has been a hanging matter — both in this and in the usual sense of the phrase — for the literature of the past , and perhaps it could be suggested that both senses may at times be presented to the mind by what Amis does with the subject , and that there is no striking difference in this respect between what he did in the Sixties and what he has done in the Eighties . |
| 6 | I have n't yet mentioned the development of the Theatre of the Absurd , which has been a strong force in European drama since Alfred Jarry 's Ubu Roi was first performed in 1896 . |
| 7 | De Valera was continuing the now dominant culture recognized by Eoin MacNeill and Douglas Hyde when , in his St Patrick 's Day address to the United States of America , broadcast in 1935 , he underlined the spirit of that preamble : ‘ Since the coming of St. Patrick , fifteen hundred years ago , Ireland has been a Christian and a Catholic nation . |
| 8 | There has been a degree of attenuation of this rigidity in some respects , but only in favour of the church 's interpretation . |
| 9 | It is thus both puzzling and worrying that so many brewers are still apparently obsessed with eradicating the uniqueness of the individual historic pub , effectively destroying what has been a familiar and secure social centre in their attempts to ‘ improve ’ upon a successful , time-honoured formula . |
| 10 | Investment in these has often been minimal — which , in the equation of pub conservation , has been a benign force for preserving many of our best traditional pubs . |
| 11 | On the one hand the multiplication of good brasseries in recent months has been a breath of fresh air to the restaurant industry , and the public has shown its appreciation by packing them full every night . |
| 12 | Yes , Lord Woodleigh has been murdered , and Miss Jilly Jonathan has been a victim beside him . |
| 13 | Our opener this year has been a runaway success in the States where the box office success of this relatively low budget film has taken everyone by surprise . |
| 14 | As ‘ Working Title ’ continue to expand and develop , it seems a good moment to look back at some of their prolific and varied output , and we will be screening a number of titles from ‘ MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE ’ through the powerful drama ‘ A WORLD APART ’ , scripted by Gillian Slovo , Ruth First 's daughter , and underrated films like ‘ PAPERHOUSE ’ to ‘ ROBIN HOOD ’ , scripted by John Mcgrath , and then a number of their new releases : ‘ EDWARD II ’ ( directed by Derek Jarman ) , ‘ DAKOTA ROAD ’ and ‘ DROP DEAD FRED ’ , which has been a huge box office hit in the States . |
| 15 | I 've had this shrub for a few years now but it has been a bit reluctant to bloom . |
| 16 | The result has been a noticeable increase in the number of pilots who suddenly find themselves faced with a situation far beyond their control , usually a situation that they had not even considered at the start of the flight . |
| 17 | As long ago now as 1974 , Michael Maguire argued a need for a semantic ethnography of police systems and the criminals they pursue ; and there has been a subsequent trickle of attempts to carry out participant observation inside the world of ‘ cops and robbers ’ . |
| 18 | Since this condemnation of research opportunity , few studies have penetrated deeply beneath the sensitive skin of ‘ police culture ’ , and even though Chatterton in his notes to my thesis argued there has been a considerable amount of ‘ participant police research ’ , I would question whether many of these inquiries achieved the finer grain and detail' of the insider 's account , for they can never really know or tell if they have been excluded from the inner workings of police practice or prevented from gaining access to the hidden realities ‘ contained inside the heads of the constables ’ . |
| 19 | I had joined a group who are still fixated on a classification of ‘ disorder ’ which homes in on those who attack property , ; and since the amassing of property has been a primary aim of capitalist society , it should come as no surprise to find that to prevent the dispossessed from simply taking from the élite has been the primary structuring principle of policing . |
| 20 | The statistical expansion of recorded crimes and a success largely determined by detection rates support the inevitable institutional contention that more control is a necessity , and has been a corner-stone in police ideology for the whole of my service . |
| 21 | And there has been a remarkable interchange of ideas between computational theorists and neuroscientists , in which attempts to create computer models of neural function have not only generated powerful new tools for the interpreting of the brain but have also fed back into computer theory and practice . |
| 22 | Ivan Lendl has been a great credit to the game which he has played with distinction for so long . |
| 23 | It has been a long time since the women 's game has been so open ; hopefully it will continue . |
| 24 | There has been a particularly sharp increase in long-distance commuting . |
| 25 | Finally , the Gatwick Express service between London ( Victoria ) and Gatwick Airport was launched by InterCity in May 1984 and has been a great success . |
| 26 | It also warns that the legislation that followed the Monopolies and Mergers Commission report in 1989 has been a flop . |
| 27 | There has been a political revolution in Paddock Wood in Kent , though it has got marginally less press coverage than the fall of the Berlin Wall or the failed Russian coup . |
| 28 | This has been a major demand by the National Licensed Victuallers Association , who hailed the decision as a victory for their campaign . |
| 29 | Until now , there has been a choice between high speed ( 22GHz ) together with high dissipation ( >0.5W per flip-flop ) or medium speed ( 9–12GHz ) with medium dissipation ( <180mW ) . |
| 30 | It has been a major political and cultural force for a hundred years . |