Example sentences of "[verb] been [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A measure of your success in a coaching session is when the subordinate feels the discussion has been between two equals and that together you have arrived at the best course of action . |
| 2 | The most marked shift has been between different sectors : the percentage of output ( Gross Domestic product , or GDP ) accounted for by manufacturing has decreased while the proportion attributable to service industries has increased . |
| 3 | This may indicate that the conflict has been over peripheral matters , that a core belief in a transcendent power could retain its plausibility , untouched by changing conceptions of the physical world . |
| 4 | The United Kingdom has been through 13 years in which unemployment has more than doubled , irreplaceable assets have been wasted , markets at home and abroad have been lost , manufacturing investment has fallen , poverty has increased , the crime rate has rocketed , and talents have been neglected . |
| 5 | Our Regional Association has been through difficult times , mainly due to isolation and communication problems . |
| 6 | ‘ The North has been through hard times but things are changing , ’ he said . |
| 7 | The car has been through several variations of engine size , but now like an ageing but still beautiful dowager , repeated facelifts can no longer wholly hide the ravages of time and progress . ’ |
| 8 | The city this morning is relatively calm , far quieter than it has been on many days in recent months . |
| 9 | The emphasis in econometric research until recently has been on developing estimators with desirable large sample properties for correctly specified models . |
| 10 | ( Everyone is someone 's cousin in Bala , and a great help it has been on several occasions . ) |
| 11 | Will discussion of reform then be remitted , as it has been on several occasions from 1916 onwards , to a Speaker 's Conference ? |
| 12 | Indeed , in most examples , the emphasis has been on social systems in which males sporting the elaborate character are polygamous and have little to do with other aspects of reproduction . |
| 13 | Since the Federal Court in the Eastern District of Texas , and subsequently the Fifth Circuit Federal Appellate Court seated in New Orleans intervened , the pendulum has swung and the emphasis has been on detailed rules to cover all contingencies , the implementation of which is far less dependent on the quality of individual personnel . |
| 14 | So it has been with other countries of immigration — the immigrants embraced a new nationality with , if the nationalist fictions are to be believed , unseemly eagerness . |
| 15 | Most of their work to date has been with blue-chip companies , but they have also handled assignments from leading merchant banks and fashion retail houses . |
| 16 | It is certainly not true of Arab public opinion which has long ago accepted the ‘ linkage ’ that Washington has been at such pains to discount . |
| 17 | The exercise of these duties has been at all times , and remains , subject to the visitorial jurisdiction of the judges . |
| 18 | Beryl Davies has been to several meetings of the Shropshire A. S. M. group . |
| 19 | Max has been to numerous rehearsals with his celebrity owner and once appeared on breakfast TV . |
| 20 | Ask anyone who has been to previous festivals and they will tell you not to miss it . |
| 21 | Basically , the tradition has been for financial landowners to pursue the investment route by building shopping centres as a long-term project , e.g. the Coal Industry Pension fund in North Shields . |
| 22 | The chief way out of this difficulty has been for empirical studies to focus on surrogates for power , rather than directly on the exercise of power itself . |
| 23 | The place anciently belonged to the Fauconbergs , but has been for many generations the seat of the Bethells . |
| 24 | The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years . |
| 25 | The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years . |
| 26 | Suppose State C has been for many years the major supplier of wheat to State A. If States A and B make an agreement that A will buy wheat from B instead of from C , this will affect C which will have to decide upon its response . |
| 27 | The Heart of Wales Line is now under greater threat than it has been for many years , because of financial pressures from British Rail in general and Regional Railways in particular . |
| 28 | However , the truth of the matter is that the Scottish economy is in a better state now than it has been for many years and is continuing to thrive . |
| 29 | I know that that is not entirely agreeable to some of my hon. Friends and to some Opposition Members , but that is the fact of life — and has been for many years . |
| 30 | The census has been for many years now an important instrument , among a range of such instruments , in the administration of the welfare state . |