Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] have [adv] [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the Historic Buildings Council for Scotland has increasingly been able to give some very substantial grants towards churches , ensuring that churches faced with closure because of a repairs crisis have been able to continue in use . |
| 2 | Soviet relations with the largest of its neighbours , the People 's Republic of China have also been difficult and at times have broken down altogether . |
| 3 | And what was true of France has also been true , a little later , of the English-speaking world . |
| 4 | About three-quarters of land developed with the aid of UDG had previously been underused , vacant or derelict . |
| 5 | Unlike the provincial businessmen represented by Cobden , the financiers of the City of London had long been intimate in the aristocratic circles that dominated Westminster and Whitehall . |
| 6 | Euro Disney , whose Euro Disneyland near Paris has now been open a year , said it lost FFr1.1 billion ( $100m ) in the six months to end-March , and now needs more money to restructure FFr21 billion of debt . |
| 7 | Persistence with neuroleptics for psychotic patients with NMS has always been controversial . |
| 8 | The total number of people infected with HIV has therefore been 592 ( 108 dead and 484 alive ) . |
| 9 | Relationships between practices and the primary care division in Grampian have traditionally been close and officials have , on the whole , been supportive of efforts to ensure high standards of general practice . |
| 10 | Throughout the last 120 years , the demands on the experience and accumulated information of the Geological Survey in Scotland have never been greater than at the present time . |
| 11 | Like the CDU in Schleswig-Holstein in 1961 , Labour in Scotland has long been able to win a majority of the seats — not so overwhelming as the CDU 's but still substantial — with an unimpressive average constituency vote : in 1987 , for example , the latter at only 42.4% sufficed to elect 50 , i.e. 69.4% , of Scotland 's 72 MPs . |
| 12 | If those brothers in Comus had really been anxious about their sisters would they have stood around spouting poetry ? |
| 13 | If we look at the context of Tawney 's 1957 address to the extra-mural department at London University , we find that the idea that all serious educational movements in England have also been social movements was no intellectual abstraction . |
| 14 | It was crammed with students , some on vacation courses ; the number of students in Paris has always been enormous . |
| 15 | POLITICS in Colombia has long been violent but boring . |
| 16 | In recent years , the Conservative government in Britain has increasingly been able to impose its agenda on the nationalized industries , including the railways . |
| 17 | Wine production in Britain has always been possible , though the evidence for it in the Roman period is almost non-existent . |
| 18 | The welfare state in Britain has always been pluralistic in that there have always been several sources of welfare provision . |
| 19 | The use of DC in BNB has also been important in establishing DC in British libraries . |
| 20 | At first the mobs in Teheran had all been anti-Shah , Gradually , however , the tide began to turn . |
| 21 | Alan Milburn , Darlington 's Labour candidate , said : ‘ The need for training investment in Darlington has never been greater . |
| 22 | Mr Milburn said : ‘ The need for training investment in Darlington has never been greater . |
| 23 | Alan Milburn , Darlington 's Labour candidate , said : ‘ The need for training investment in Darlington has never been greater . |
| 24 | Strange , thought Fergus , turning restlessly and trying to escape the light , strange that throughout all Court history and throughout all Court gossip ( and gossip at Tara had ever been lively ) , that no one has ever referred to Dierdriu 's child , to the heir to Tara who disappeared . |
| 25 | Bush 's attendance at Rio had reportedly been conditional on this . |