Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] has be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The least coverage has been in the realm of news and current affairs , where until the recent AIDS and Clause 28 reportage gay stories have been given only very occasional attention . |
| 2 | Since the crisis began in the late 1970s , spending on education below tertiary level has been at rock bottom and health little better . |
| 3 | Our Regional Association has been through difficult times , mainly due to isolation and communication problems . |
| 4 | Funding for research of this kind has been on a scale not approached by any other area of sociological enquiry . |
| 5 | In fact a more limited regime of this kind has been on the Soviet agenda for the Mediterranean for many years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ This case has been through the due process of law , has been carefully considered at every stage and reviewed at frequent intervals . |
| 8 | Perhaps emphasis at this level has been upon soil evolution rather than upon soil dynamics , which has been treated in relation to land capability . |
| 9 | This conc has been in progress all today . |
| 10 | While this struggle has been in the making , gay men in youth work have remained silent . |
| 11 | Their crushing electoral defeat of 1983 in conjunction with the realisation that their share of the popular vote has been in steady decline since 1951 has , however , forced a reassessment . |
| 12 | This car has been in use since Easter and has been enthusiastically praised by the people , mainly volunteers , who have been staffing it . |
| 13 | As has already been noted , however , most of this research has been on villages , rather than the more difficult scattered settlements ; the atypical patterns , such as the strings of villages in chalkland valleys , have received a disproportionate amount of attention ( Fig 15 ) |
| 14 | While much of the focus in this chapter has been on manufacturing where the reliance on small producers is relatively unusual among advanced economies , the small firm is dominant in many other sectors . |
| 15 | This programme has been through the first round of application approvals which saw the Regional Council gain around £17,000 to capital and around £600,000 to revenue . |
| 16 | this Airacomet has been in Ed Maloney 's collection for a number of years . |
| 17 | The midwife said to me , ‘ This child has been on this earth before ’ and I thought that was rather an odd thing to say , but the midwife seemed quite adamant . |
| 18 | While at the current time the main focus of this work has been to better assess need through localities , work is being undertaken to identify ways in which budgets could be allocated to localities and purchasing carried out at the local level . |
| 19 | This issue has been of particular importance within central government in recent years as the traditional task of the civil service — that of offering objective , impartial advice — has come under scrutiny . |
| 20 | The Jamaican born bowler has been in superb form in the Cheltenham Festival … on Wednesday his bowling against Essex could swing the match . |
| 21 | This cemetery has been in existence since 1965 and is lovingly tended by regular visitors who often bring fresh flowers to mark the last resting place of a faithful friend . |
| 22 | India has a number of diseases all her own , but if there is any suggestion that a foreign filly has been on the loose in a British stud she is rejected as unclean . |
| 23 | I 'd heard it said that th the development of this site has been in the development plan for twenty years |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This process has been at work since the Industrial Revolution . |
| 26 | Accordingly , the major contribution of economics to policy over this period has been in providing some short-term corrections to economic activity whilst being able to do little to alter the long-term trend . |
| 27 | Erm I great exception to that because the savings on his side may be public transport has been at the expense of the workers in public transport and the people who use public transport . |
| 28 | ‘ This place has been in the same family for over a hundred years , and it was going strong before that time . |
| 29 | this business has been in erm family hands since nineteen twenty six ? |
| 30 | Right in the course of our er er com our meetings Danny erm I will be asking you to recommend me to people but if , but only if you feel that this meeting has been of some benefit to you . |