Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another significant change in carp fishing technique has been in surface fishing . |
| 2 | The staple crop has for centuries been rice , and wet-rice agriculture has been of crucial significance in the evolution of Japanese society . |
| 3 | Lotus Notes has been on the market for some time , and is already being used by many of the world 's largest companies . |
| 4 | Though its timing caught out the markets , the krona/ecu link has been on the cards for some months . |
| 5 | The channel tunnel rail link has been at the centre of my thoughts about my own urban concerns . |
| 6 | perhaps the best-known attempt to make such a link has been by Peter Hall . |
| 7 | Indeed it has been a skill whose weakness has been at the root of many criticisms of GCSE papers where short answers are not deemed to be adequate foundation for A level . |
| 8 | Last month Amnesty International called for all charges against him to be withdrawn and concluded : ‘ At every stage the behaviour of the authorities has been in open defiance of the authority of the courts and the rule of law . ’ |
| 9 | Mike Rowbottom has been inside Grendon Prison in Buckinghamshire , where the prisoners face a regime that 's unique in Britain . |
| 10 | Studies of rape in England and Wales suggest that two-thirds of rapes take place in the home of the victim or the offender , and that only one-third involve strangers ; that two-fifths of victims suffer physical violence as well as rape , and one-sixth suffer additional sexual indignities ; that recent years have seen an increase in the reporting of rapes between acquaintances , and that rapes are increasing a little in their intrinsic seriousness ( i.e. in terms of the violence used , other sexual acts , etc ) , but that the most significant rise has been in the average length of sentences imposed on rapists by the courts . |
| 11 | Strach has been on his last legs for the past 2 seasons and while he still produces high quality performances more often than not he is looking more tired with each game he plays , not suprising for someone of his age . |
| 12 | Jenkins has been in the job for about ten days , so she can be forgiven for forgetting a lot of names , but she does have a long history of dealing with elderly people . |
| 13 | Given the amount of time that Karsten Schubert has been in business and given the new wave of gallery/dealers , this year is going to be the year to break with a much more open policy towards new art , are being seen as central to the contemporary art scene . |
| 14 | Why his Lordship should have concluded that the facts did not give rise to the issue is unclear , but subsequent events have shown that the decision has been of much greater importance for the scope of the right of public meeting than his Lordship imagined it would be . |
| 15 | Often the emphasis on shared values has been at its greatest in time of war or other national crisis . |
| 16 | One of the Moths now at Mandevelle has been on static display in a motor museum for years , and is now almost ready to leap into the air again ; an excellent idea . |
| 17 | This conc has been in progress all today . |
| 18 | Short 's preparation has been under way for six months and has been intensive . |
| 19 | Bramham Park has been in the Lane Fox family for eight generations , since Robert Benson and the first Lord Bingley built the House and laid out the grounds in the manner of Versailles in 1698 and George Fox married his daughter . |
| 20 | ( 1982 ) have shown that about three-quarters of the change has been to woodland , as shown in Figure 8.4 , and that this pattern is fairly geographically even , except for Dartmoor as shown in Table 8.4 . |
| 21 | Both suggest that in the area of sexual morality the change has been towards less restraint , less control and more choice . |
| 22 | One recent change has been among the so-called shabashniki . |
| 23 | Now in his third full season with the HB NSR , Bradl 's main change has been from Michelin to Dunlop tyres |
| 24 | The main change has been in attitudes to Japan and Western Europe . |
| 25 | The second change has been in share prices themselves : in the 1980s they soared . |
| 26 | The numbers unemployed and in education rose but a bigger change has been in the numbers on the Youth Training Scheme which was set up in 1983 . |
| 27 | The most important contextual change has been in the labour market . |
| 28 | Another radical change has been in the traditional structure for production management on the major multi-business sites . |
| 29 | When the morning walk has been a hot , hard climb and all breathing has been in gasps , you can arrive at lunchtime with a mouth as dry as a salt mine . |
| 30 | 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 . |