Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [adv] [been] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For women , communism has always been a double-edged sword . |
| 2 | In the same way , Islam has always been an urban faith , ill at ease with the wilderness ; its civilization has always flourished most successfully in the labyrinths of the ancient bazaar towns of the East . |
| 3 | Letter-writing has often been an effective means of direction and Paul made the most of it . |
| 4 | Social responsibility has never been a Greek characteristic . |
| 5 | Nat West says that late payment has recently been a significant factor in the demand for bank finance . |
| 6 | Radar has also been a useful probe of other planets . |
| 7 | The University has long been a leading centre for research in this field , and just over a year ago Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre ( EPCC ) was established to focus further on these issues . |
| 8 | ‘ Plus , ’ said Jack , ‘ the lyric has always been the natural medium for the untrammelled expression of feeling . |
| 9 | The establishment of a National Curriculum has certainly been a major historical movement , but it is not the case that nothing was defined prior to 1988 and now everything is defined . |
| 10 | However , military necessity has always been a dangerous principle when counterposed to the principle of humanitarian limitation of the means of warfare . |
| 11 | Teaching has always been a demanding and shifting job . |
| 12 | Do I discern that skating has not been a frequent pleasure in these parts ? ’ |
| 13 | Your own , personalized weight control programme has not been a sudden thing but has evolved over a long period of time . |
| 14 | The programme has also been a useful catalyst to closer collaboration between FE colleges , Central Institutions and Universities and in linking their courses . |
| 15 | In practice , the kind of uniform state that historical scholars have had in mind has frequently been the uniform standard language ; for this reason it is appropriate to start with some comments on the tendency to envisage the history of English as a unilinear history of the standard language . |
| 16 | Oloron has always been a successful market town , right from the days when it traded mainly across the mountains , with Aragon . |
| 17 | The 1974 World Population Plan of Action has not been the final word in the ongoing debate on this particular problem . |
| 18 | The construction of levadas to carry irrigation and drinking-water has always been a difficult feat of engineering , and many men have been killed over the years in their construction . |
| 19 | Accounting has always been a closed book to me . ’ |
| 20 | But the simplicity of Blake and Mouton 's original conception has probably been the main reason for its success . |
| 21 | Here in particular one can find an increase which merely reflects new legislation affecting causes for divorce — for example , the Matrimonial Causes Act of 1937 which introduced desertion , cruelty and incurable insanity as further grounds for divorce , adultery having previously been the only one . |
| 22 | Telephoning Jonathan to break off the engagement had almost been a high point of comic relief . |
| 23 | Fishing had always been a major industry . |
| 24 | Although climatic changes undoubtedly occurred during the post-glacial , it appears that the principal determinants of regional vegetational change in the Outer Hebrides have been natural soil changes , with widespread leaching , podsolisation , and bog development beginning at about 7000 B.P. From about 5000 B.P. or even earlier ( Bohnke , 1988 ) , human influence has also been an important factor . |
| 25 | In that sense the Committee has not been a true executive body ; but nor was it designed to be . |
| 26 | Beyond this , however , its origin has hitherto been an insoluble problem : the explicit evidence of the ancients is notoriously inadequate and various different theories have been constructed from it . |
| 27 | The portfolio has always been a nervous holder of Pentos paper , and while the shares have been traded successfully over the years , no fortunes have been made . |
| 28 | My work has always been a visual diary . |
| 29 | The air campaign has not been an unqualified success in any of its missions . |
| 30 | In fact , in rural areas today , the Orange hall has frequently been the only place where protestants of all shades have met to renew their belief and commitment to Ulster protestant loyalism ( Harris 1972 : 162–5 ) . |