Example sentences of "this [noun sg] has be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Funding for research of this kind has been on a scale not approached by any other area of sociological enquiry . |
| 2 | In fact a more limited regime of this kind has been on the Soviet agenda for the Mediterranean for many years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ This case has been through the due process of law , has been carefully considered at every stage and reviewed at frequent intervals . |
| 5 | Perhaps emphasis at this level has been upon soil evolution rather than upon soil dynamics , which has been treated in relation to land capability . |
| 6 | This conc has been in progress all today . |
| 7 | While this struggle has been in the making , gay men in youth work have remained silent . |
| 8 | This car has been in use since Easter and has been enthusiastically praised by the people , mainly volunteers , who have been staffing it . |
| 9 | 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 ) |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | this Airacomet has been in Ed Maloney 's collection for a number of years . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I 'd heard it said that th the development of this site has been in the development plan for twenty years |
| 18 | This process has been at work since the Industrial Revolution . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ This place has been in the same family for over a hundred years , and it was going strong before that time . |
| 21 | this business has been in erm family hands since nineteen twenty six ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Next day the guns of the Tower fired a victory salute and Sir John Ligonier wrote to Cumberland on the 25th : ‘ This town has been in a blaze these two days . |
| 24 | ‘ This knowledge has been of great use . |
| 25 | Losing at home four two to Swindon , their arch rivals after being two in front , but I 'd just like to make one point clear ; do n't blame manager Brian Horton because all of Oxford 's matches that they 've lost this season has been through their own fault : lack of character out there on the pitch , there 's nothing Brian can do sat on the bench . |
| 26 | This week has been about the library . |
| 27 | Much of the literature in this area has been of US origin , and the more general applicability of such managerial strategies to other countries needs , therefore , to be considered in the light of evidence from cross-national studies . |
| 28 | This government has been in office so long that this view of personal freedom has become written into detailed policy and into legal planning advice . |
| 29 | But this CD has been on my player many times since it arrived . |
| 30 | part of this interpretation has been by politicians and clerics as well as by judges . |