Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] has been [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joanne works at a grammar school and almost all her teaching experience has been at this school . |
| 2 | Contract law has been of major importance in underpinning the market , although other areas of law have also had a bearing . |
| 3 | Much of the recent growth in service sector employment has been in private services . |
| 4 | For example , we all know that productivity growth in the UK has been inferior to West Germany 's over the post-war decades ; that product development has been behind that of Japan ; and that over many years the rates of growth of South Korea , Italy and East Germany were higher than the United Kingdom 's . |
| 5 | The development of CD-ROM techniques has been of particular significance for students of texts : classics students can search the complete database of ancient literature by using the IBYCUS implementation of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae ; students of English can use the CD-ROM version of the Oxford English Dictionary to conduct searches which would take lifetimes if conducted on the twenty volumes of hard copy . |
| 6 | Although he admits having joined the authority as a complete outsider to the health service , his wide experience in the business world has been of great help . |
| 7 | My wife Pam has been for some time aware that I have been having an on-going relationship with Suzannah , who I believe is known to some of you . |
| 8 | As outlined in para 3.3 below , the City Code applies to takeovers of certain categories of private companies ( broadly where the equity share capital has been to some extent publicly held at any time within the ten years prior to the offer ) . |
| 9 | They say that until now paclitaxel for human drug use has been from felled trees , but in 1993 sources other than Pacific yew bark will be used on a commercial scale , and by 1995 they hope actual trees will no longer be needed to produce the drug . |
| 10 | Inter-rater reliability was assessed across codes , individuals and data-points ; mean weighted occurrence/ non-occurrence reliability has been between 84 per cent and 95 per cent on each occasion . |
| 11 | The growth of the Theatre Collection has been in some way analogous to that of the proverbial snowball , for as its reputation has increased so too has the number of donations and bequests in the form of private collections , both large and small . |
| 12 | Suppose State C has been for many years the major supplier of wheat to State A. If States A and B make an agreement that A will buy wheat from B instead of from C , this will affect C which will have to decide upon its response . |
| 13 | Gloucestershire County Council has been down this road before . |
| 14 | Mr Steisel says City Hall has been in close contact with it from the start . |
| 15 | The most-loved horse in National Hunt history has been in constant demand for public appearances since his retirement from racing on Boxing Day last year . |
| 16 | The development of study skills was implicitly or explicitly part of every proposal made for inclusion in the ESSE/L Project , and as we have seen , the major thrust of recent inservice developments has been in this area . |
| 17 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the cumulative total of all taxes from North sea oil has been since 1979 in 1991-92 prices . |