Example sentences of "[verb] been [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ken has been into western styling since he was a child . |
| 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 | It said : ’ The balance of evidence over the last month has been towards continued recession . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Our Regional Association has been through difficult times , mainly due to isolation and communication problems . |
| 6 | Such legislation has been through detailed preparation including the publication of draft clauses . |
| 7 | ‘ The North has been through hard times but things are changing , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Where interiors have survived , it has been through benign neglect . |
| 9 | However , against the background of government concern over inner-city disturbances , picket line violence , the Greenham Common demonstrations and other large scale protests , the emphasis has been on preserving order and minimising public inconvenience rather than facilitating effective protest . |
| 10 | The Congress 's disarray — radical democrats argue that it should be disbanded — has been on embarrassing display this week as deputies argued over what to call their state . |
| 11 | One of the Moths now at Mandevelle has been on static display in a motor museum for years , and is now almost ready to leap into the air again ; an excellent idea . |
| 12 | Most of the research on this has been on conversational interaction of a rather restricted kind , such as between doctor and patient , teacher and pupil or between the various speakers in court cases . |
| 13 | The emphasis in econometric research until recently has been on developing estimators with desirable large sample properties for correctly specified models . |
| 14 | There are those who would tell you that BMW 's reputation for first-class finish has been on thin ice for some time but , until now , we 've seen little evidence to substantiate the claim . |
| 15 | At every C&P plant there is concern about energy conservation but emphasis in recent years has been on improving product quality — something which often uses more energy without increasing output . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The problem we in Europe face is that Japanese companies have been active in scaling up production for some years , whereas in Europe the emphasis has been on high-quality research , which has only been significantly exploited in the area of basic liquid crystal materials . |
| 18 | The main emphasis of the HIDB has been on halting depopulation by the saving and creation of employment . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The British Library Research and Development Department , which , along with the National Foundation for Educational Research in England and Wales and the Schools Council , has funded most of this research , is aware of that problem , and using a standing committee called the Discussion Group on User Education in Schools , it is endeavouring to bring the research into general practice , and even to extend the influence of the work into other levels of education , eg primary schools ( the concentration has been on secondary education so far ) . |
| 21 | He has been on sick leave for more than three months during which Avon County Council has been inquiring into phone calls said to have been made from his Bristol office to soft-porn ‘ adult ’ 0898 numbers . |
| 22 | Miss Scanlon , who is in her 20s , has been on sick leave for four months . |
| 23 | Since September ‘ 92 , one of the Enterprise Development Officers , Allison Hughes , has been on sick leave . |
| 24 | Dr Carol Starkie has been on sick leave from Selly Oak hospital since May 25 , South Birmingham Health Authority said . |
| 25 | But the SA Rugby Board has traditionally had the major slice of South Africa 's rugby cake , built as this has been on white wealth , sponsorship , patronage , assets , expertise , media coverage and the rest . |
| 26 | It also points out in in in in the report , that this income has been to meet expenditure of thirty-two thousand pounds for the number of services , and the remainder of this , has been with additional insurance costs . |
| 27 | Clinical presentation has been with acute nephritis , nephrotic syndrome , or renal failure . |
| 28 | Mr Burrows has been with Allied Dunbar for 16 years . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Indeed , with the beginnings of credit unions in this country , one group that has shown considerable interest in this development has been this group of lenders whose business has been with poor people . |