Example sentences of "has [adv] be [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently the big news has all been about the latest electronic machines and computer programs for them . |
| 2 | Reform of the rating system has long been on the political agenda . |
| 3 | California has long been at the green cutting edge , and had the bill been passed , other states and possibly nations may have followed in its wake . |
| 4 | Such initiatives petered out in the decades after the war ; indeed , it has only been since the mid 1980s that new attempts have been made , in Nell 's words , ‘ to regain the higher ground ’ , re-establishing the Underground as an influential patron of public art as well as improving the passenger environment . |
| 5 | It has only been in the last year or so that the Government has started to grapple with major areas of social policy like education and housing . |
| 6 | Jaromil has discovered that writing can be what reading has familiarly been for the ordinary person : an escape , a shelter , a door to the alternative self . |
| 7 | This RS1000 , he informs me , has already been to the Arctic about six times . |
| 8 | Furthermore , the farm worker has generally been among the last to receive citizenship rights granted to the rest of the population — the shadow of the workhouse was not finally removed until 1936 , the Rent Act was not extended to agricultural dwellings until 1976 and even today agricultural legislation manages to override certain of the conditions of the Truck Acts . |
| 9 | I do n't think any MP has ever been to the monetary system to ask for a couple of million pounds , actually . |
| 10 | The gap in the ESP market has always been at the lower end , and a number of other publishers are catering for this . |
| 11 | My own preference has always been for the rough-coated variety since these can withstand weather and rough going very much better . |
| 12 | It was also clear that the first of a number of PostScript clones , the language definition has always been in the public domain , were beginning to come to the market . |
| 13 | The definition of the PostScript language has always been in the public domain and Adobe always anticipated that other companies would produce versions of it . |
| 14 | I think it 's difficult to say that , but erm we feel that the British protection was very important for the erm sovereignty , for maintaining the external sovereignty of Kuwait , but our internal affairs has always been within the Kuwaiti community . |
| 15 | However , it has surely been to the mutual advantage of the people of Scotland and England that we have had that union for the past two and a half centuries . |
| 16 | He has actually been to the actual America — and come back . |
| 17 | Erm Ryedale District , as can be seen from the table supplied by Greater York , has taken the largest proportion of the Greater York housing element over the past ten years , as regards the proposed level of future housing growth suggested for the Greater York area , the District Council supports the figure in the structure plan , the Greater York study identified a number of sites around the Greater York area which could accommodate further development without compromising greenbelt objectives or adversely affecting the character of the settlements surrounding York , and within that part of Southern Ryedale within the Greater York area the identified sites were , by and large , incorporated into the Southern Ryedale local plan , which has recently been through the public enquiry , the District Council does not believe that a larger amount of land could be identified within Southern Ryedale , without compromising greenbelt objectives . |
| 18 | She has never been to the Caribbean in her life , but most of her friends are black British : to their companionship she owes her aptitude for talking Creole . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's not a question of bringing them to more people — Emporio has never been for the poor — but of morals ; with the Nineties there comes a new thinking about how much it 's right to spend on clothes and I certainly go along with that . ’ |