Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] has be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably , for we later read that ‘ want of opportunity has been in some respect a prejudice to my business ’ , and , ‘ the noble act of embalming has been entirely ruined by the undertakers ’ . |
| 2 | The Treaty of Rome contained no specific references to the need for the Community to develop an Industrial Policy , consequently the main focus towards industry has been on competition policy , and on the creation of the SEM . |
| 3 | In LEAs where a scheme of delegation has been in place over a period of years , the question of making more money soon arises . |
| 4 | The main method of revision has been by the publication of new editions . |
| 5 | To do this he must assure himself that , on the day he is nominated as a candidate , he is 21 years of age or over , a British subject or a citizen of the Irish Republic and either that his name is on the register of electors in the local government area for which he intends to stand as a candidate , or that he has resided in the area ( or , in the case of a parish or community , within three miles of the area ) for a period of one year , or that he has occupied as owner or tenant land in the area for one year , or that his principal or only place of work has been in the area for one year . |
| 6 | Erm most of the i involvement I 've ever had in any kind of job has been by accident . |
| 7 | Other than that , the main focus of attention has been on whether corporatist state administration is bureaucratic ( Etzioni-Halevy 1983 , pp. 69–71 ) . |
| 8 | A great deal of diversification has been of a conglomerate , ‘ unrelated ’ nature , but it seems hard to find any justification for unrelated diversification . |
| 9 | The prohibition of cannabis is no more effective now than the prohibition of alcohol has been in the past . |
| 10 | Conversely Newco may be entitled to deductions of VAT if the change of use has been from exempt use to taxable use . |
| 11 | The most systematic use of this sort of approach has been in the study of the coinage of the last century of the Roman Republic . |
| 12 | Since the mid 1950s , the Office of Communication has been on the front line in the battle to give minorities and women a greater voice in the broadcast industry . |
| 13 | Professor Brighouse has no idea why Mr Patten singled him out for attack , but says the Secretary of State has been under a lot of pressure |
| 14 | The clearest opposition to the achievement of a measure of integration has been from the Roman catholic church . |
| 15 | Ever since the first distant sounds of music and odd snatches of alien speech began interrupting the 1920s ' world of Morse , better ( and louder ) reproduction of audio has been at the forefront of development priorities for engineers . |
| 16 | The Sultan has ruled by decree and a state of emergency has been in force since a large-scale revolt in December 1962 which resulted in the suspension of sections of the Constitution [ see pp. 19261-62 ] . |
| 17 | A state of emergency has been in force and the Sultan has ruled by decree since a large-scale revolt in 1962 which resulted in the suspension of sections of the Constitution . |
| 18 | It is well known that the plastic used on original Fenders used to fade from white to a sort of greenish grey , and this type of scratchplate has been on offer as a cosmetic retro-fit for some time . |
| 19 | However , it seems plausible that this source of energy has been of little importance in the past because Jupiter is so very massive that it probably formed very hot , though Jupiter may now be sufficiently cool for helium separation to have recently become significant , or for it to become significant in the relatively near future . |
| 20 | The Department of Energy has been under pressure to expand its efforts on renewable energy after a report by departmental advisers concluded that Britain could generate half its electricity from natural sources within 20 years , a point also made by several environmental groups . |
| 21 | When she comes to Henry VIII in her History of England , she observes that ‘ nothing can be said in his vindication , but that his abolishing Religious Houses & leaving them to the ruinous depredations of time has been of infinite use to the landscape of England in general ’ . |
| 22 | Those whose main contact with violence has been through television or the cinema may think that in real life , just as in films , the hero or heroine 's story ends when their ordeal is over . |
| 23 | Another means of keeping contemporary teachers better informed and less parochial in outlook has been through a range of central and local government books and reports . |
| 24 | The most common area of representation in television has been in the broadcasting of feature films which have either explicit or implicit references to homosexuality . |
| 25 | Thus , a government report in 1970 concluded that , for the period 1954–68 , ‘ the underlying upward trend in the percentage of the manual labour force on shifts in manufacturing has been about 1 per cent per annum . ’ |
| 26 | As noted earlier , most of the newly created jobs in the service sector are occupied by women on a part-time basis , whereas most of the labour expelled from manufacturing has been in full-time jobs occupied by men . |
| 27 | In other words , for Hinduism the road to monotheism has been by way of syncretism ( blending together ) rather than rejection . |
| 28 | Access to schooling has been in decline because of the war and financial cuts . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The only management we have seen to date has been with the aid of a chainsaw ! |