Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] has been [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tie lines are so congested it is n't true , especially with accounts being at Stansted and apparently there has been a proposal in since last March with all the costings and everything which is still waiting on an answer for improved lines which would actually take some of the computer lines and everything . |
| 2 | For so long there has been no regulation or regulatory body who can impose standards upon the canopy designer and manufacturer and , as a direct conslequence of this omission , the quality of both have varied from very high to ‘ good grief is that thing legal ! ’ , all lwithout legal recourse . |
| 3 | So there has been a scramble among unqualified teachers to obtain upgrading . |
| 4 | The Cash Collection/Enquiry Service follows the same philosophy of experienced and capable staff dealing with enquiries at the counter and so there has been an increase in the Administrative Assistants required for this service with a compensating reduction in clerical staff . |
| 5 | enable your opponent to abandon a commitment by : describing all the concessions you have made so far suggesting that the circumstances have changed blaming some other party or situation for the present position , such as the government , another union , the economy , the personnel department suggesting that somehow there has been a misunderstanding referring the whole matter to another individual or group . |
| 6 | As you know I 've er been holding a number of er small meetings with staff er and one of the questions I 've been asking is whether or not there has been a need for the building presentation that we 've done for a couple of years er and generally there was the view expressed that yes it was desirable but perhaps in a different format . |
| 7 | This power can be exercised whether or not there has been a contravention of the rules or for any other reason . |
| 8 | Belief or the absence of belief that the owner had with such knowledge consented to the appropriation is relevant to the issue of dishonesty , not to the question whether or not there has been an appropriation . |
| 9 | He said , at p. 632 : ‘ Belief or the absence of belief that the owner had with such knowledge consented to the appropriation is relevant to the issue of dishonesty , not to the question whether or not there has been an appropriation . |
| 10 | Lately there has been a move towards counting the twenty-four hours in a single progression from 00.00 , representing midnight , to 23.59 , the figures on the left of the punctuating point being the hours and those to the right the minutes . |
| 11 | In almost all villages however there has been some element of change , and usually there has been a set of related changes in which social polarization is accompanied by segregation and a shift of political power to a new ruling group , dominated by in-migrants . |
| 12 | Traditionally there has been a lack of publishing infrastructure and trained personnel in the Pacific . |
| 13 | Whenever there has been a change within television in this country there has always been the accusation that quality would suffer . |
| 14 | Whenever there has been a whiff of financial scandal in the past , the Opposition , very much to their credit , have raised it and brought it before the public , and there has been a great hue and cry about it . |
| 15 | Similarly there has been an increase in the reliance on long-term debt . |
| 16 | So far there has been no response of this sort ; it fell to Iraq 's minorities to make the attempt instead . |
| 17 | Researchers are trying to develop ways of recognising domesticated pulses , eg rye , peas and chickpeas , which were very important in ancient nutrition , but up to now there has been no technique that readily identifies them . |
| 18 | Up until now there has been no uniformity of presentation of nutrition information ; a manufacturer has been free to give what information he wants in the way he chooses to express it . |
| 19 | ‘ They say , we know you ca n't continue in the old way , ’ he says , but until now there has been no alternative . |
| 20 | Up until now there has been no need to believe that neutrinos have any mass at all . |
| 21 | Now there has been a discussion about integration and segregation but I do n't think that when people talk about integration they mean geriatric , psychogeriatric and young chronic sick all under the one roof . |
| 22 | But now there has been the lapse of time and Jenny has not met that timetable . |
| 23 | Overall there has been an increase in the number of candidates involved in advanced courses , with a total of 23,945 candidates ( 20,870 previously ) enrolled for assessment . |
| 24 | Often there has been no concern at all that perhaps more can be expected educationally of the new Agreed Syllabuses . |
| 25 | Ironically it has been the left , the architects of reselection , who have been under greatest threat . |
| 26 | So far it has been an air war : some 15,000 sorties have cost the allies less than 25 aircraft — an astonishingly light price — though five of these were RAF Tornados , lost during very hazardous low-level night attacks on massively defended targets . |
| 27 | Since that point though what has been the pattern of our budgets ? |
| 28 | Well there has been an increase in the family , you 're right , yes . |
| 29 | The tenure data for the rings shows that here there has been an increase in owner-occupation at the expense of ‘ other tenures ’ which in these former coal field areas included colliery housing . |
| 30 | Well he has been a bit |