Example sentences of "[verb] been [prep] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tendency then , has been towards greater reliance upon market forces and competitive freedom ; a shift of emphasis in the way governments aim to trade-off financial sector policy goals and in the regulatory means by which these goals are to be secured . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | One way out of the dilemma has been for larger Japanese companies to reduce transaction costs with outside suppliers by promising continuity in their subcontracting arrangements . |
| 4 | DISCOUNTING the scowl that greeted the outcome of his declaration at Ilford , Mike Gatting has been in better humour lately than at any time in my experience . |
| 5 | The ability to help or to harm was not the least of the tools in the politician 's inventory , and it may indeed have been of greater value than some of the more troublesome varieties of patronage , where a favour for one could easily anger others who were disappointed . |
| 6 | Richard Cocks , one of several on 20s. with 6s. 8d. livery , had 3s. 4d. in land and £5 in goods , though all John Sewster of Mursley owned was 20s. in goods ; if the identification is correct he would appear to have been of lower status . |
| 7 | His own pleasure had been of shorter duration for he was very well aware that he ought somehow to have protected this trusting girl from himself . |
| 8 | The famous English institutions of learning , the universities and colleges of Oxford and Cambridge and the colleges at Eton and Winchester were specifically exempted from the provisions of the Act , as they had been from earlier legislation . |
| 9 | They then lost Gatting , who had been in better form than anyone , in the first one-day international when his nose exploded after coming into contact with a ball from Marshall that he failed to hook . |
| 10 | The reference to ‘ all the circumstances ’ was not included in the Bill , but had been in earlier legislation , and was reinstated for fear that the courts might read into the omission a legislative intention that was not truly held . |
| 11 | ‘ Most approaches have been from smaller chemical plants . |
| 12 | Nearly 55 per cent of people who have been in higher education had been to the theatre in the survey period , but fewer than 19 per cent of those who left school at 16 . |
| 13 | However , the number of people with fathers in the professional group is relatively small , so that they are still a minority of those who have been in higher education . |