Example sentences of "has [adv] [been] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To open up a situation , to broaden thinking which has hitherto been from a limited viewpoint . |
| 2 | Recently the big news has all been about the latest electronic machines and computer programs for them . |
| 3 | Reform of the rating system has long been on the political agenda . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | SINBAD has been cleaning the windows in Channel 4 's Brookside since 1984 , although he has only been on a regular contract for the last two years . |
| 7 | Due to lack of time , contact with Churches has only been on an informal basis . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Saunders , who has scored 11 goals in 35 international appearances , has not been on a losing side since August 23 . |
| 11 | Mason has not been on the losing side since joining Blyth 16 games ago . |
| 12 | The extreme range seems to be from 5 to 6.4 or so , but generally it remains between 4.6 and 5.2 ; it has not been through a major minimum since 1949 . |
| 13 | The intense moments of pain and fear that gripped me were too remote to be understood by anyone who has not been through a similar experience . |
| 14 | Erm I must say I share Peter 's view here that the er location of the new settlement , whether in general terms or by district , has not been through the public consultation process . |
| 15 | The increase has not been at a constant rate . |
| 16 | Harry Enfield has just been through a tough day auditioning people for his new BBC comedy series . |
| 17 | This RS1000 , he informs me , has already been to the Arctic about six times . |
| 18 | The battle , between Diana de Moutis of Art Expertise and Didier Imbert of Didier Fine Art ( organiser of the recent exhibition of Botero sculptures on the Champs-Elysees ) has already been through a first hearing which was won by de Moutis , and an appeal , won last November by Imbert . |
| 19 | The convoy has already been through a Soviet Checkpoint at Marienborn on the West/East German border , Where the numbers of men and vehicles have been thoroughly checked . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Anyone who has ever been to a similar school will know exactly what I mean . |
| 22 | I do n't think any MP has ever been to the monetary system to ask for a couple of million pounds , actually . |
| 23 | But I do not think any traveller has ever been in a worse situation than I was then . |
| 24 | The gap in the ESP market has always been at the lower end , and a number of other publishers are catering for this . |
| 25 | My own preference has always been for the rough-coated variety since these can withstand weather and rough going very much better . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The investment of research and management resources to build up to a Chinese market has usually been at a higher cost than would be tolerated elsewhere . |
| 30 | She has n't been for a long time . |