Example sentences of "the [noun] [noun sg] has been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the beginnings of technology , now about 200 years ago in the case of the U.K. , the labour market has been in a continuous state of flux . |
| 2 | Everyone in the Administration Centre has been through a very steep learning curve . |
| 3 | The most recent contribution by the Dulverton Trust has been for the instalment of Dr Peter Ridgway Watt 's windows in the new wing of Wills Hall . |
| 4 | Much of the InSCRU work has been in the context of assignment work , and is designed to change study habits . |
| 5 | Although he admits having joined the authority as a complete outsider to the health service , his wide experience in the business world has been of great help . |
| 6 | Shipbuilding work at the Scotstoun yard has been at a standstill for a fortnight since pay negotiations broke down . |
| 7 | Nor can there be any claim that the laws-of-war approach has been at all decisive anywhere in illuminating the issue of the legality or otherwise of possession of such weapons . |
| 8 | The mortgage market has been in the doldrums for three years and lending is shrinking steadily , partly because there is only a trickle of new customers and partly because existing customers are paying off at least part of their mortgages when they can . |
| 9 | The accruals method has been in development for over three years , and was triggered by the takeover of Pearl by AMP on a price/ earnings ratio of 9.6 times earnings calculated under an embedded value method . |
| 10 | A key link with the mainland , the Larne-Stranraer route has been in existence for almost 130 years and has become an integral part of Ulster 's maritime heritage . |
| 11 | For last three years the opinion survey has been on line on PROFS . |
| 12 | The leisure centre has been at the centre of a compensation wrangle since serious building defects were discovered last year . |
| 13 | we 've had explosions where the fuel system has been at fault . |
| 14 | The Penguin deal has been in place the longest . |
| 15 | While human evolution has oriented around the use of hand and eye , and developed down a highly visual and linear path , the dolphin mind has been on a very different track — acoustic , non-linear and non-manipulative . |
| 16 | The Education Secretary has been in the region lending his weight to the Conservative campaign , and denying that the Government was to blame for school underfunding . |
| 17 | The figure also illustrates the processes shown schematically in Fig. 20.5 ; the longer the dye streak has been inside the turbulent region , the wider is the range of length scales on which it has been distorted . |
| 18 | Over the four years that The Catering Guild has been in existence , staff numbers have grown to 490 , spread nationally . |
| 19 | In Malaysia , where the beer market has been in decline following three substantial duty increases , GBW 's overall market share has been maintained . |
| 20 | Mr Chairman , the traffic problem has been with us for many years as our village existed before the motor car . |
| 21 | Dataquest says that to date much of the growth in the Unix market has been in the scientific and engineering world , but that future growth will be more business-oriented . |
| 22 | The trade balance of the motor industry has been in deficit since 1982 and in 1989 , at £6.55 billion , accounted for 28 per cent of the UK visible trade deficit of £23.1 billion . |
| 23 | In many parishes the parish magazine has been in being for a number of years and is a great repository of local information — which event was held by which organisation in which year , who won prizes at the horticultural show , etc. , etc . |
| 24 | The sales centre has been on a very steep learning curve as to the needs of individual appointed representatives . |
| 25 | The planning system has been in existence in roughly its present form since 1947 but no one has before attempted to measure how much the system costs . |
| 26 | Over the last five years , plans for a road linking Spain and France have gone ahead , a ski resort has been built and the environment ministry has been at odds with local politicians over their attempts to implement hunting and traffic in areas thought crucial to the bear 's survival . |
| 27 | The growth of the Theatre Collection has been in some way analogous to that of the proverbial snowball , for as its reputation has increased so too has the number of donations and bequests in the form of private collections , both large and small . |
| 28 | It is nonetheless likely that an export licence will be denied , to give a British institution the chance of raising the necessary matching funds to purchase the picture , as the Cook panel has been in England since 1863 ( in the Cook family since 1868 ) and as Messrs MacGregor and Rosenberg ( Director of the National Gallery and Curator of Paintings at the Louvre , respectively ) would agree , one can not have too many Antonellos . |
| 29 | The Khmer Rouge has been at war with the official Government since 1979 . |
| 30 | Grading — Mark Segal and Brenda Nicholson will send a questionnaire to members to discover their views and will look at what the Union position has been in the past . |