Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The channel tunnel rail link has been at the centre of my thoughts about my own urban concerns . |
| 2 | Indeed it has been a skill whose weakness has been at the root of many criticisms of GCSE papers where short answers are not deemed to be adequate foundation for A level . |
| 3 | Bramham Park has been in the Lane Fox family for eight generations , since Robert Benson and the first Lord Bingley built the House and laid out the grounds in the manner of Versailles in 1698 and George Fox married his daughter . |
| 4 | The most important contextual change has been in the labour market . |
| 5 | Funding for research of this kind has been on a scale not approached by any other area of sociological enquiry . |
| 6 | The least coverage has been in the realm of news and current affairs , where until the recent AIDS and Clause 28 reportage gay stories have been given only very occasional attention . |
| 7 | How many times have you sat down at your machine and thought ‘ I do n't think I can cope with this ’ and within the next five minutes all the knitting has been on the floor ? |
| 8 | Apart from public education , my own field of interest and experience has been in the discourse analysis of language in the magistrates ' court , where I have played the roles of a bilingual interpreter and of a sociolinguist observing the language scene . |
| 9 | The ‘ Fury and the Spitfire has been to an airshow the previous day at Yeovilton , they had then flown to Humberside for another airshow and were on their way home . |
| 10 | While this struggle has been in the making , gay men in youth work have remained silent . |
| 11 | The Town and Country Planning Association has been in the forefront of plans to promote a change in government policy on the North-South Divide . |
| 12 | The man responsible for tackling Britain 's rising crime has been on the campaign trail in the region today . |
| 13 | The drawing has been in the patron 's family since that date and has never previously been exhibited or published . |
| 14 | Detailed seismic evidence indicates that the underthrusting has been at an angle of about 15° over a distance of about 300 km ; perhaps significantly this roughly corresponds to the average width of the Himalayas . |
| 15 | If your apprenticeship has been in the district where you intend to farm , so much the better , for you will have experience of local conditions and friends to help you look sensibly at whatever offers . |
| 16 | If there was a body , it 's possible that the singeing of skin and flesh might have left identifiable organic deposits on the woodwork , but the Wheel has been in the water for some time and we must n't expect much . ’ |
| 17 | The practice has been for the judge to deduct a period for remission which might be earned , and to advise the Home Secretary that what remains is the requirement of retribution and deterrence . |
| 18 | Nude or clothed , the female figure has been at the centre of debates about the genius in art . |
| 19 | perhaps fortunately , then , the recent UK research has been in the nature of ‘ action research ’ involving pupils and teachers in the environment of the classroom . |
| 20 | When we last spoke , you told me that you were reading in bed until eleven-thirty , when you went to sleep , and your last sortie from the bedroom had been to the kitchen for milk at approximately ten-forty . |
| 21 | His mind had been on the office . |
| 22 | In his reply , the Chief Executive told Councillor Matheson that the Social Work Department had been in the process of compiling guidelines when ‘ the present difficulties ’ arose . |
| 23 | The worst thing was that the tape was on metal spools and the resulting damage was not a complete wipe : there were still tantalising fragments of the recording left where the tape had been under the metal ‘ spokes ’ of the reel , I would be interested to know if this legend is true . |
| 24 | ‘ Jill Jones 's album had been on the shelf for so long that when it did come out , it sounded old , ’ she reveals . |
| 25 | The original intention had been for the expedition to sail on 10 February but the usual bad weather made this impossible and Ormonde became progressively more reluctant to leave , suspecting that all hope of surprise had now been lost . |
| 26 | Harbour had been in the middle of telling Freddie that in his opinion it was almost a blessing that the theatre would have to close . |
| 27 | The burden of Russia 's social backwardness could not be thrown off as quickly as the threat of political counterrevolution had been by the end of the Civil War . |
| 28 | Half the force had been at the match , of course , although that was hardly an excuse . |
| 29 | ‘ All the servants at the hacienda have been with the count for years , some since he was a child . ’ |
| 30 | The names which have previously confused scholars would in effect have been like the variety of names used for , say , a contemporary political party or , at most , for the spectrum of groups and individuals which coalesced into a single movement — the French Resistance , during the German occupation . |