Example sentences of "[adv] been [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the major problem with the curriculum has not so much been lack of vision or aims , as a failure to translate aims in a clear and logical way into a curriculum to achieve them . |
| 2 | While World Cup matters have only been part of the Board 's committee business this week , the speculation as to whether Welsh reservations would carry weight has been immense . |
| 3 | In March , sworn depositions and subpoenaed bank statements revealed the extent to which what had seemed a normal transaction with a Japanese museum had apparently been part of a deliberate swindle into which Feigen 's gallery had been drawn . |
| 4 | They had both apparently been part of the group clustered around the door ; had that been mere coincidence , or had it been Harry Martin that Luke had been so engrossed in talking to ? |
| 5 | Increasingly they used the principle of partible inheritance ( which had long been characteristic of some other European societies ) , where the estate was divided between the surviving spouse and children . |
| 6 | Whether or not the USSR will increase oil exports and whether it can do so have long been areas of heated debate . |
| 7 | There have long been stories of mysterious sounds at sea : haunted eerie calls in the night , mermaids singing , sirens luring sailors on to the rocks . |
| 8 | There have long been stories of human giants in legend and mythology . |
| 9 | Secretaries of State for Trade and Industry may come and go but Sir Jeffrey Sterling , chairman of the P&O group , has long been part of the furniture at 1 Victoria Street . |
| 10 | Fortunately , the answer lay close at hand , in that sense of the redeeming power of personal example which had for so long been part of the mental furniture of the British middle classes . |
| 11 | In the search for a transcendent level of knowledge , it has long been part of human endeavour to enter a symbolic womb of darkness and learn within its space . |
| 12 | Constructed as a spoof documentary about a political candidate for the US Senate whose promotional ads are pop videos and whose campaign bus is a mobile trading floor , it joins the dots of a diagram — Eighties politics as the flip-side of Sixties counter-culture — which has long been part of the landscape ( and which could do with an update ) . |
| 13 | Whereas in the UK a general degree is a particular type of undergraduate curriculum , in the USA general education has for long been part of everyone 's undergraduate degree , along with electives ( options ) and a major subject . |
| 14 | An almost unquestioned belief in the street people had long been part of It 's rhetoric , with or without the romanticization of the drop-out , from Kerouac through to Emmett Grogan . |
| 15 | There have long been rumours of putting bolts on Bosigran routes where the belays are difficult to arrange . |
| 16 | Social and economic inequality have long been features of our society , but such inequality does not always have the same implications for health status . |
| 17 | In reality , like the Visigoths , they had long been neighbours of the Romans . |
| 18 | The supermarket , the fast-food joint , the parking lot have all been projects of the practice : but a Macdonalds which floats , a parking lot with 20 cars deeply buried under asphalt , and its most celebrated work , the series of catalogue stores for the Best company where boxes are smashed into and eroded , with trees growing through them , façades peel or tilt , distorting the relationships between the predictable elements of the landscape . |
| 19 | Murder , drugs , a bombing and shootings have all been part of a saga directly involving members of the family . |
| 20 | France , Spain and Italy have all been stalwarts of the EC . |
| 21 | Because there are children and therefore the woman has obviously been part of a couple at some point , there is an assumption that in her single state she is critical , cynical and undermining of couples around her . |
| 22 | For example , there have already been reports of hospitals giving preference to patients of fundholding general practitioners . |
| 23 | I had already been part of the theatre working as an ASM at the Cambridge Arts Theatre , not with the University but with the |
| 24 | Independent readers , with their heroic sponsorship of The Garden Venture , have already been part of the quest for a new operatic voice . |
| 25 | But it had just been part of Isabelle 's patient determination to make Sabine as bilingual as possible . |
| 26 | And he had n't even wanted her ; it had just been part of a plan . |
| 27 | Yes , I think it does something really nasty , you know , you could have got in again and just been sort of whiter than white just does n't work with the er , |
| 28 | The week 's gone so quickly I 've just been sort of , you know . |
| 29 | Yeah , it looks as if they 've just been sort of put in in a heap |
| 30 | So after the worry of redundancy , windows have provided openings for people who would otherwise have still been part of today 's unemployment figures . |