Example sentences of "[noun pl] has be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lotus Notes has been on the market for some time , and is already being used by many of the world 's largest companies . |
| 2 | Last month Amnesty International called for all charges against him to be withdrawn and concluded : ‘ At every stage the behaviour of the authorities has been in open defiance of the authority of the courts and the rule of law . ’ |
| 3 | Often the emphasis on shared values has been at its greatest in time of war or other national crisis . |
| 4 | One method of reducing surpluses has been for companies to take contributions holidays ( although generally these are not extended to employee contribution holidays ) whereby they do not pay any contributions for a period of time . |
| 5 | Most of my contact with other musicians has been with other improvising musicians , and to get to work with one of the major American composers on something like that was fascinating . |
| 6 | The most long-standing method of training church musicians has been through apprenticeship . |
| 7 | A program of research into leadership styles has been in operation at Ohio State University since 1945 . |
| 8 | However , by and large , the audience split between the commercial and non-commercial sectors has been in the 40:60 ratio ( or vice versa ) and , therefore , within acceptable limits . |
| 9 | Local Management of Schools has been to many of our schools . |
| 10 | The emphasis in schools has been on computer science and CAL . |
| 11 | Ever since then , China in its many and varied aspects has been in my mind , and I believe it was on that Saturday morning in Aunt Janie 's potato patch that I first became interested in the Orient . |
| 12 | The traditional approach to the training and selection of headteachers has been on the basis of technical competence reinforced by practical experience . |
| 13 | Thus the practical stress of Marxist movements and parties has been on individuals sublimating their own ethical beliefs and judgements to a collective , party-defined line . |
| 14 | In particular , who in the nine months has been in charge of this section and shown great dedication and commitment . |
| 15 | Many of my tutors have said that one of the most salutary of their experiences has been to work with a good adult class , which starts with no preconceptions , does n't necessarily have a qualification in mind , and ask the kind of questions which would tend to be asked say in Swift 's Gulliver Travels . |
| 16 | Does the Minister recognise that the question of loan sharks has been on the agenda for the past 12 years , but that nothing positive has occurred other than the report to which he referred ? |
| 17 | The crucial difference , especially in recent years , between the two countries has been in the timing of their respective economic cycles . |
| 18 | One important application for Markov models has been in automatic speech recognition ( ASR ) in which a speech signal is modelled as a probabilistic function of a ( hidden ) Markov chain . |
| 19 | Similarly , the emphasis in large-scale Japanese companies has been on the creation of organisation-oriented , bureaucratic policies ( emphasising job security , seniority-based promotion , incremental pay scales , etc . ) . |
| 20 | About 90 per cent of development in the zones has been for industrial or warehouse use . |
| 21 | How texts achieve their effects has been of particular significance in the teaching of literature , including drama . |
| 22 | His coaching and help at nets has been of benefit to all our players . ’ |
| 23 | The exercise of these duties has been at all times , and remains , subject to the visitorial jurisdiction of the judges . |
| 24 | Mary says now : ‘ Accessing my past lives has been of great benefit and I 'm sure that if I 'd gone to an ordinary therapist , nothing would have been sorted out . ’ |
| 25 | The application of the spreading technique to oocytes has been of enormous benefit , just as in spermatocytes , in revealing intimate detail of pairing and other configurations at meiotic prophase . |
| 26 | The only visible damage over the years has been to its statuary . |
| 27 | One of the feminist demands in recent years has been to ‘ reclaim the night ’ . |
| 28 | However , India produces some very good quality rugs , particularly in Kashmir , and the trend over the last few years has been towards finer and finer items . |
| 29 | The trend in recent years has been towards establishing more horizontal committees in the interests of greater internal co-ordination . |
| 30 | As well as this , the trend over the past few years has been towards greater accountability from business in the form of information about matters other than profit and loss . |