Example sentences of "[noun pl] has [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 | The contamination of clay bodies by minute metallic elements has long been a recurring nightmare for potters despite stringent efforts to eradicate the ‘ disease ’ . |
5 | ‘ English ’ in American schools and universities has always been a cultural , not a progressive , intellectual subject . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | The numbers of acute beds that a service needs has long been a contentious issue . |
8 | The enthusiastic support of the influential Association of MBAs has also been a great asset . |
9 | Being a West Indian spinner in recent years has n't been the safest of occupations , but Roger Harper played throughout the 1984 series . |
10 | In fact Benitses has always been a rocking resort , and over the past couple of years has become even more exciting . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | ‘ 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | And Blumler found that ‘ Parliamentary television in the regions has not been a mere mirror or pale shadow of national television . |
17 | She said to me , ‘ Frankly , like you Dame Edna , the physical aspect of interpersonal relations has never been a big thing with me . ’ |
18 | The mere business of shifting passengers has long been a dreary distraction . |
19 | As I mentioned earlier , the saithe or coalfish Gadus virens has long been an important fish in Shetland , the surface-shoaling immatures being utilised by many sea-birds . |
20 | The most important causal factor in industrial societies has certainly been the sustained expansion of skilled positions in professional , managerial and technical occupations . |
21 | The fate of the great whales has not been a happy one and in the 1970s scientists and conservationists began to express deep concern over their dwindling numbers . |
22 | HOARDING clothes has long been a British vice . |
23 | The documentation for these drawings has always been the best of any British collection of its type , and after the paring away of the greatest country house collection of drawings Chatsworth 's by the two Christie 's sales of the 1980s , Holkham remained the most important extant . |
24 | On the contrary , the development of such instruments has only been a first step , preparatory to examining the reasons people differ on such traits . |
25 | Since the Second World War , however , the political control of rural councils has not been the only factor influencing the rate of rural house-building . |