Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [verb] been [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 | blah , blah , blah , recommended that interview have been in both directions despite in this difficult across , and I could n't say when you could do that at midday , but the implication is you have to do it when you |
| 3 | Well I shall go because if that fella 's been from , if that fella said I did n't have a job I 'll be jumping up and down like a what d' ya call it ! |
| 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 | Such an approach is , of course , not exclusively suited for " outsiders " analysing another community 's talk : in fact , most studies of this kind have been by monolinguals studying conversations in their own or related dialects . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The two children in this story have been through very bad experiences . |
| 9 | ‘ This case has been through the due process of law , has been carefully considered at every stage and reviewed at frequent intervals . |
| 10 | Perhaps emphasis at this level has been upon soil evolution rather than upon soil dynamics , which has been treated in relation to land capability . |
| 11 | This conc has been in progress all today . |
| 12 | At the same time , it is only fair to point out that my task in this instance had been of an unusually difficult order . |
| 13 | While this struggle has been in the making , gay men in youth work have remained silent . |
| 14 | This car has been in use since Easter and has been enthusiastically praised by the people , mainly volunteers , who have been staffing it . |
| 15 | 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 ) |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If this card had been with either North or South the slam would have been a 75-per-cent chance . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | this Airacomet has been in Ed Maloney 's collection for a number of years . |
| 20 | ‘ This boy 's been in the wars . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I 'd heard it said that th the development of this site has been in the development plan for twenty years |
| 26 | This process has been at work since the Industrial Revolution . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ This place has been in the same family for over a hundred years , and it was going strong before that time . |
| 29 | However , this outcome had been by no means certain when de Gaulle flew back to England on 4 June 1944 , to be briefed about the invasion which was about to begin . |
| 30 | this business has been in erm family hands since nineteen twenty six ? |