Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chief way out of this difficulty has been for empirical studies to focus on surrogates for power , rather than directly on the exercise of power itself . |
| 2 | March has been in financial difficulties for some time and does n't have a sponsor for this season . |
| 3 | Norfolk has been for many years one of our Medau strongholds and it is for this reason that the Society decided to select this prestigious location . |
| 4 | The census has been for many years now an important instrument , among a range of such instruments , in the administration of the welfare state . |
| 5 | Our Regional Association has been through difficult times , mainly due to isolation and communication problems . |
| 6 | The car has been through several variations of engine size , but now like an ageing but still beautiful dowager , repeated facelifts can no longer wholly hide the ravages of time and progress . ’ |
| 7 | Our talk has been of non-commuting observables or the Fourier analysis of wavepackets . |
| 8 | The major thrust of this recent research has been in four directions . |
| 9 | According to Mills , the United States had been through five epochs . |
| 10 | At the same time the council in England believed that the king 's familiares were exercising undue influence over him : the unity which Edward had been at such pains to build up in 1337 was on the point of fracturing . |
| 11 | blah , blah , blah , recommended that interview have been in both directions despite in this difficult across , and I could n't say when you could do that at midday , but the implication is you have to do it when you |
| 12 | American bond yields have been at 20-year lows , and shares are expensive . |
| 13 | ‘ Previously the losses have been through voluntary redundancies or retirements , losing some of our most experienced officers . |
| 14 | ‘ The North has been through hard times but things are changing , ’ he said . |
| 15 | It is certainly not true of Arab public opinion which has long ago accepted the ‘ linkage ’ that Washington has been at such pains to discount . |
| 16 | The exercise of these duties has been at all times , and remains , subject to the visitorial jurisdiction of the judges . |
| 17 | Dr Curtis had been in four times . |
| 18 | They were more uncertain than their parents had been about these things . |
| 19 | Perhaps Bad Schwarzendorn had been in Allied hands by then . |
| 20 | Two-thirds were in less-developed countries , whereas five years previously about half the world 's known HIV infections had been in developed countries ( mostly in the USA ) . |
| 21 | But Karen had been on these holidays before . |
| 22 | The standard model of local government since the war has been of multi-functional authorities with an elected council supervising the direct provision of services . |
| 23 | Gary Needham , general manager , said MCP has been in preliminary talks with Thompson but remained tight lipped on the nature of any agreement . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In the view of private and public critics of the Wilberforce sons there was more than filiopietism at issue in their charge that Clarkson claimed leadership in the cause when their father was entitled to it ; they suggested Clarkson had been to all intents and purposes a paid agent of the Abolition Committee . |
| 26 | US Senate armed services committee chairman Sam Nunn asked the Defence Department to conduct a further investigation , citing the statement in the ABC broadcast by Adml. ( retd ) William Crowe , former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , that the Vincennes had been in Iranian waters when it fired the missile , not in international waters as previously claimed . |
| 27 | When Bigwig had spoken earlier of sounding out the Owsla , Hazel had been in two minds . |
| 28 | The worst peasant uprisings in the Civil War had been against German expeditions in search of food supplies . |
| 29 | That is precisely where we have been , which is why so many of the decisions reached in the past two days have been on British initiatives that have been accepted across the whole of Europe . |
| 30 | Since the Federal Court in the Eastern District of Texas , and subsequently the Fifth Circuit Federal Appellate Court seated in New Orleans intervened , the pendulum has swung and the emphasis has been on detailed rules to cover all contingencies , the implementation of which is far less dependent on the quality of individual personnel . |