Example sentences of "[adv] been [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further consequence arising from studies of process has paradoxically been progress towards a more integrated approach because investigations of one specific process have often proceeded to encompass other processes in the way that soil process investigations have become involved with hillslope processes and with plant-soil moisture relationships and also with boundary layer climatology . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There was nothing so dead as an old love , and what they had shared had only been desire on his part . |
| 5 | Explaining their resignations in terms of the desire to " recover [ their ] freedom " , Wade said that he and the other PDS ministers had been excluded from government action and had only been party to decisions over " trivial " issues . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There had long been resistance to making him a saint due to his open contempt for Christian domestic morality ( he had lived with concubines after the death of his last wife ) . |
| 10 | We must remember that there was no compulsory army conscription in Britain — compulsion in schools was bad enough , and standing armies had long been anathema to the ‘ freeborn Englishman ’ — and it was not until the years following the Second World War that compulsory national service would come into existence in peace-time Britain . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There has long been controversy over who invented the travellers cheque . |
| 18 | Quoting Cypress chief T J Rodgers , Electronic Engineering Times adds that the Ross Technology subsidiary could be shuttered if Sun Microsystems Inc does n't pick up the 66MHz HyperSparc chip in a next-generation box — there has long been talk on Wall Street of a reorganisation of Ross . |
| 19 | Murder , drugs , a bombing and shootings have all been part of a saga directly involving members of the family . |
| 20 | This view is not based on logic but is greatly influenced by the programming to which we have all been subject from day one of our lives . |
| 21 | Ralph had planned it but they had all been party to his evil . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The intervention of outside powers , finally , has obviously been non-internationalist in both motivation and effect , except by pure accident . |
| 24 | Because we are more dependent and more vulnerable in later years , there has rightly been concern about what may be termed ‘ old age abuse ’ and the subject merits some detailed discussion here . |
| 25 | A Merlin III that Ted had preserved during 1985–1987 had penetrated deep into blue clay and had thus been cut-off from the damaging effects of oxygen . |
| 26 | It had already been love at first hearing . |
| 27 | I had already been part of the theatre working as an ASM at the Cambridge Arts Theatre , not with the University but with the |
| 28 | Independent readers , with their heroic sponsorship of The Garden Venture , have already been part of the quest for a new operatic voice . |
| 29 | Southeast of this elongated zone these sediments had already been overthrust by Precambrian and Palaeozoic igneous and metamorphic rocks of the Blue Ridge and Piedmont provinces . |
| 30 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that there has already been snow in the north , the midlands , and even on Exmoor in my constituency ? |