Example sentences of "has [adv] been [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Kallman has since been on another field trip to this area and is able to confirm the widespread range of this species throughout most of the small tributaries of the Rio Coatzacoalcos , and eastwards from Sarabia . |
| 2 | The prisoner 's dilemma — a game where two players have to decide whether to co-operate with each other or cheat — has long been of great interest to economists . |
| 3 | There has only been on eprevious report of the presence of epoxide hydrolase in normal colonic tissue . |
| 4 | What she has achieved is remarkable given she is still very young and has only been in this business a couple of years . |
| 5 | Besides , everyone who matters has already been to some sort of bash at the Natural History Museum ; this is new . |
| 6 | Appendix B. Right , Chris has already been through this part of it . |
| 7 | Somalia , they say , has anyway been without effective government over the past year . |
| 8 | There are currently 17 expeditions on Everest — the most there has ever been at one time . |
| 9 | In socialist France , it is now higher than it has ever been in that country 's history . |
| 10 | In socialist France , unemployment is now higher than it has ever been in that country 's history . |
| 11 | ‘ Ask him , ’ I said , ‘ if Sheridan Lorrimore has ever been in any trouble that he knows of , apart from assaulting an actor at Toronto , that should have resulted in Sheridan going to jail . ’ |
| 12 | First , safety expenditure under the Government and British Rail is higher than it has ever been in British Rail 's history — it has gone up from £140 million to £200 million . |
| 13 | Who owns which bit of land and what they decide to do with it has always been of critical importance , and our landscape is the result of countless human decisions taken by individuals in the past . |
| 14 | The state of the weather has always been of great interest and almost every column has a full account . |
| 15 | Confidentiality for the client has always been of paramount importance within the CAB and is accepted by all workers as an essential part of their work . |
| 16 | Of course quality of care has always been of professional concern in the NHS , but it was firmly placed on managerial agendas by the Griffiths management reforms in 1983 and given a substantial boost by WFP . |
| 17 | The question of how to discipline children has always been of central importance to the whole enterprise of bringing them up . |
| 18 | In a community like this the printed word has always been of more importance than to most of those whose access to books was very much easier . |
| 19 | Much of the activity on the Tyne Tunnel Estate has always been in small warehousing and distribution depots but the two large manufacturing employers are Cape Insulation and Twinings Teas ( a subsidiary of Associated British Foods ) . |
| 20 | However , money for adult education in general has always been in short supply — as the 1973 Russell Report pointed out , only just over 1 per cent of LEA expenditure was devoted to it — and art education is no exception to the general rule . |
| 21 | It was there that I had the pleasure of meeting Mrs Stella Gawthrop , who has not only the distinction of being a pathfinder for the breed in the UK , but having emigrated to South Africa , has also been of great assistance to the newly formed clubs there . |
| 22 | As well as the waterway , Healings own a fleet of road tankers for grain transport , and the location of motorway junctions , built in the 1970s and 1980s near Tewkesbury , has also been of great advantage a far cry from the early years of the century , when deliveries were made by a 12 mph Foden lorry . |
| 23 | The nature and extent of housing programmes in the post-war years has therefore been of great significance for urban form , community life and degrees of individual happiness . |
| 24 | Although rural housing , as we shall see later in this chapter , has never been in plentiful supply , the newcomers provide an easy scapegoat for the otherwise ‘ hidden hand ’ of the housing market . |
| 25 | ‘ That last has never been in any doubt . |
| 26 | There is none of that apparently aimless wandering in short stretches , punctuated by frequent bends , going halfway round the compass to reach the next hamlet or village , which characterises the byroads in country that has never been in open field or left it several centuries ago . |