Example sentences of "have [adv] been [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They share the fact that they have all been of limited duration but , within that framework , one has been concerned with local skills training , four have involved modules contained within honours degree courses ( Typography and Graphic Communication , Library Science , Publishing and Computer Science respectively ) and one has been at postgraduate level . |
| 2 | Some people have already been down that road ! |
| 3 | There are many people who come into English-language teaching without having passed through formal pedagogic processes , so that when they are confronted with the terminology of the subject , they may be at a disadvantage to those who have already been to teacher-training college or who have a university degree in linguistics . |
| 4 | Most of our advertisers have already been in some form of advertising before . |
| 5 | Taxes are higher than they have ever been in this country 's history , and the burden falls disproportionately heavily on lower-income families . |
| 6 | In Britain public examination results have always been of internal interest to schools , although they have been used as only crude indicators in evaluating a school 's performance . |
| 7 | Conflicts of both interest and duty are not new to the City of London ; indeed , they have traditionally been of great concern to financial market regulators . |
| 8 | The personnel to run literacy and adult education programmes have also been in short supply . |
| 9 | ‘ The finest views are from the bottom , and at some places a little above it , but few dare venture to the bottom particularly those females whose pedestrian excursions have chiefly been upon level ground ; nay the male sex are often appalled with a view of the way , and many a Bond-street gentleman , in his stable costume , would rather hazard his neck four-in-hand , than risk it by having his arms precariously supported by the twigs and branches he may find in his way to the gulph below . ’ |
| 10 | In a fabliau called La Saineresse , " The female blood-letter " , for instance , the deceptive actions performed by the deceiving character are actions entirely of speech , as a wife who has had sexual intercourse with a man her dull-witted husband believes to be a female blood-letter describes her act of illicit fornication to her duped and satisfied husband entirely in metaphors : ( Sir , thank you by the love of God , I have indeed been in hard labour . |
| 11 | After all , it 's not everyone who has a private view of paintings worth £100,000 — a lot of money in those pre-war , pre-inflation days — but which have never been on public view . |
| 12 | I have never been to this town before , but I do not think she is a typical resident of Bournemouth . |
| 13 | Although this may sound harsh and unreasonable , experience has made it hard for me to trust women who have never been through some form of separatist reaction . |
| 14 | ‘ I have never been in rural ministry , ’ Daniel said . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , with a marginally less successful Cup than League record , Athletico have never been in that position . |
| 16 | ‘ They have never been in that position before some of them are classic cases of Thatcher 's children . |
| 17 | Bradshaw and Miller 's work has shown that a substantial proportion of single mothers have never been in full time employment . |