Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generation of standard useful attitudes has always been one of the main purposes of military training . |
| 2 | Pay for leading art-historians has always been lower in Britain than in the United States , but the brain drain has got worse . |
| 3 | My clothes , hair , ears , trainers had all been full of broken bits of twig … |
| 4 | The challenge of the reformers had been one great reality but the showmen had always been aware of the other reality and that was that very large numbers of ordinary people , and that included the rich and the poor and people from all nations , were fascinated by moving pictures . |
| 5 | Never being lost for words had always been one of Rory 's great talents , but right now it seemed to have deserted her completely , and she was forced to look away from his dark , probing eyes , horribly aware of his apparent ability to see straight through her . |
| 6 | The Scots had never been parochial in their cultural self-perceptions . |
| 7 | Managers in schools have long been involved in the management of change of various kinds and at various levels — particularly in relation to the curriculum or elements of it . |
| 8 | Schools have always been involved in issues of resource management such as the allocation of capitation allowances . |
| 9 | ‘ Journalists have always been keen on the idea of a ‘ Punk Revival ’ and now that a few bands like the Buzzcocks , Sham 69 and X-Ray Spex are back together they 're having a field day . |
| 10 | To make matters more complicated , where aid programmes have sought to channel funds to small-scale farmers , or small businesses , the real priorities of the target beneficiaries have seldom been identical to those of the donor or the government . |
| 11 | Marxists have often been reticent on these questions . |
| 12 | In Type I disease , the calves have usually been set-stocked in one area for several moths ; in contrast , Type II disease often has a typical history of calves being grazed on a field from spring to mid-summer , then moved and brought back to the original field in the autumn . |
| 13 | All five London Pest Control branches have recently been involved in intensive council flat cockroach and pharaohs ant treatments . |
| 14 | In fluid mechanics two methods have always been available for the description of motion — Lagrange 's and Euler 's . |
| 15 | National data on the proportion of households sharing kitchens , bathrooms , and other amenities have only been available from the census since 1951 . |
| 16 | Rektum will spend the money on reassembling their career in a less pressurised climate : up to now their recordings have only been available on bootleg cassettes , while their live performances have taken place exclusively underground . |
| 17 | Biopic roles have always been popular with the Academy . |
| 18 | The VNODD as well as the communists had already been involved in fomenting strikes but on the whole they do not seem to have attached themselves to any cause other than nationalism and , while they were particularly active in attempting to subvert the army , when they finally and out of desperation , having been heavily penetrated by the Sûreté , attempted to begin their armed struggle , many of the Vietnamese riflemen in the battalion , which was induced to mutiny , rallied instead to their French officers . |
| 19 | In the end , Matza 's argument is not so much an attack on correctionalism as an assertion of the not very original point that , whatever your starting assumption , it is best to keep your mind open to all possibilities ( although he was right to draw attention to the fact that correctionalists had often been guilty of not doing so ) . |
| 20 | Local elections confirmed the trend and their historian has interpreted them as showing that " by 1913 , the Conservatives had rarely been stronger in the Councils of the land , or indeed more poised for success in the forthcoming general election " . |
| 21 | Hitherto , the ecumenical gatherings had chiefly been concerned with theological issues , even if matters of discipline such as the manner of determining the date of Easter had crept in . |
| 22 | But then , city dwellers have never been long on modesty . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , some European companies have long been successful at the world super-company level ( table 3 ) . |
| 24 | Environmental concerns have never been higher on the shopping list . |
| 25 | This stress on authority and hierarchy is , Eccleshall contends , understandable given that ‘ from Restoration absolutism to the Thatcherite preoccupation with law and order Conservatives have always been fearful of social indiscipline ’ . |
| 26 | Violence of different kinds has certainly been endemic in sport and fighting between groups of players or spectators is nothing new . |
| 27 | The enormous success of televised sport within the last twenty years has certainly been decisive in turning matches into ‘ media events ’ and in attracting commercial investment at unprecedented levels . |
| 28 | Traditional leadership of the kind provided by the landed classes had never been significant in antislavery . |
| 29 | Both places had once been red on the map . |
| 30 | Edinburgh , Glasgow , and London ( particularly Imperial College ) universities have all been involved in major research projects in this area , although the major structural problems had been elucidated in 1906 by scientists from the then Geological Survey of Scotland ( Peach and others . |