Example sentences of "[adv] has be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evidence from official statistics suggests that the number of households containing two or more elementary families has indeed fallen : from 3 per cent of households in 1961 to 1 per cent in 1981 ( Social Trends , 1987 , p. 41 , table 2.1 ) Clearly this is , and apparently has been for some time , very much a minority arrangement within the British population as a whole . |
| 2 | As many parents have discovered , the problem with disposable nappies up to now has been with that word ‘ disposable ’ . |
| 3 | Hitherto , our provision here has been at best haphazard , and at worst deplorable . |
| 4 | There 's no doubt that the street-wisdom of the English forwards has been of huge value to them . |
| 5 | It hit sectors and people who largely escaped before , the skilled , the clerical workers , the managers and the professionals who 've been badly mauled this time , and where last time around er the service sector was expanding to mop up some of those who 'd lost their jobs in manufacturing , this time the service sector too has been in deep trouble . |
| 6 | Gozitan wine is cheap but just recently has been of variable quality . |
| 7 | The emphasis in econometric research until recently has been on developing estimators with desirable large sample properties for correctly specified models . |