Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] has been [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | The Commonwealth came closer together than it has been for a long time . |
2 | 103 youths were arrested in the first four weeks , but there are porblems , sometimes in radio communications and it has been at a cost . |
3 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
4 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
5 | In July 1944 Attlee presented a paper on ‘ Foreign Policy and the Flying Bomb ’ , which pointed out that it would henceforth be impossible for Britain to rely upon the English Channel as a defence against her enemies : From our point of view , Norway , Denmark , Holland and France are necessary outposts of Britain and , in as much as Britain is now as she has been for a hundred years a shield for the U.S. , outposts of America as well . |
6 | French structuralism , applied as it has been to a wide range of intellectual disciplines , is a realization of Saussure 's dream of a general science of signs — semiology . |