Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [adv] been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PROVIDING musical settings for other people 's words has always been a handy option when one 's own muse is temporarily employed elsewhere . |
| 2 | The economic significance of capital maintenance in the balance sheets of public sector organizations has not been a major concern of accountants in the past . |
| 3 | A ‘ mixed economy of care ’ , with care being provided on similar terms by public and independent sectors , is not particularly new to local authorities , although the contracting of care from multiple organizations has not been a key policy in the past , more an ad hoc response to specific local problems . |
| 4 | Caldas had once been a favourite family haunt , she recalled wistfully , and had the local bus service not meandered into every far-flung hamlet on its way and taken forever to make the journey she would have been back long ago . |
| 5 | The first sessions had obviously been a useful learning experience for all concerned . |
| 6 | ‘ These schools have long been a closed shop and many have n't been inspected for ages . |
| 7 | He takes it for a walk — such walks have long been a ritual activity of the country 's more optimistic male poor , the dog more expensively jacketed than the chap . |
| 8 | Dumped cars have also been an occasional problem . |
| 9 | My father owned garages , so cars have always been a big part of my life . ’ |
| 10 | The contamination of clay bodies by minute metallic elements has long been a recurring nightmare for potters despite stringent efforts to eradicate the ‘ disease ’ . |
| 11 | On his daily visit to the laboratory to look at quality control tests on raw and processed materials , Graham added : ‘ Mills and sliphouses have never been the favourite areas of pottery factories — you either love or hate them — but for the likes of me they are a way of life . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ English ’ in American schools and universities has always been a cultural , not a progressive , intellectual subject . |
| 13 | Close attention to constituent needs has always been an indispensable condition for success in elections to the US congress , but in the 1970s it assumed a new significance . |
| 14 | The numbers of acute beds that a service needs has long been a contentious issue . |
| 15 | The enthusiastic support of the influential Association of MBAs has also been a great asset . |
| 16 | My first experience of airsports had n't been a good one . |
| 17 | It is perhaps surprising that plant tissues contain substances which affect animals , but plants have always been a useful source of drugs , and indigenous remedies from all parts of the world were studied when research interests expanded after 1945 . |
| 18 | In fact Benitses has always been a rocking resort , and over the past couple of years has become even more exciting . |
| 19 | Moderation in all things has generally been a vain hope where human competition is concerned , and the contest to obtain the ultimate Peke-faced specimen has already led the breed into trouble . |
| 20 | ‘ The financing of small , growth businesses has always been an important national issue , made all the more important by the effects of economic recession , ’ said . |
| 21 | For despite having an open mind in many ways , his attitude to women and their problems had always been the conventional one of the young aristocrat he had once been . |
| 22 | ‘ Instead she has , in effect , admitted that the problems have obviously been a major topic of conversation at the highest level . ’ |
| 23 | IBM 's internal networks have thus been an unwritten but real part of its winning culture . |
| 24 | Since numerals do not stand for ‘ numbers in abstract ’ but for ‘ particular things numbered ’ , the misguided interest in the properties of such abstractions has really been a trifling concern with mere language or formalism . |
| 25 | The broadening of aims and objectives has not been a sudden panic measure to the market forces of the 1990s but has been part of a professional and careful reassessment which has been in progress since at least the late 1960s . |
| 26 | However , to such countries the fact that the Fund has agreed domestic programmes as a condition for loans has often been the key factor in encouraging lending by banks and other private sector organizations . |
| 27 | And Blumler found that ‘ Parliamentary television in the regions has not been a mere mirror or pale shadow of national television . |
| 28 | She said to me , ‘ Frankly , like you Dame Edna , the physical aspect of interpersonal relations has never been a big thing with me . ’ |
| 29 | The mere business of shifting passengers has long been a dreary distraction . |
| 30 | Branson 's living arrangements had always been a moveable feast , a reflection of the lack of boundaries between his work and private life . |