Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] been [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every game between the teams since has been a struggle for superiority and status with Dundee in the role of the local aristocrat and St Johnstone the perennial grousebeater . |
| 2 | I agree with my hon. Friend that in the past the weakness when farmers have got together has been the quality of marketing and management that they bring to a project . |
| 3 | This method alone has been the downfall of countless ' big fish up and down the country , and I foresee its popularity increasing in the coming seasons . |
| 4 | The best thing of all has been the chance of taking part in this war … |
| 5 | Investors have frequently been offered special inducements , but the biggest inducement of all has been the underpricing of many of the issues and the chance of an immediate profit . |
| 6 | Most significant of all has been the fact that it is now possible for banks to engage in a full range of securities related business along the same lines as the German universal banks , a practice which had hitherto been avoided in the UK through the imposition of self-imposed constraints . |
| 7 | Most impervious of all has been the news , making only brief reference to items such as the 1967 Sexual Offences Act or the more recent Local Government Act . |
| 8 | One of the dominant themes in the redistribution of population in the Western World over the past twenty years or so has been the dispersal of population from large cities to medium and small-sized settlements . |
| 9 | One of the most remarkable discoveries arising from oceanographic research over the past two decades or so has been the youth of oceanic sediments and the underlying basaltic crust . |
| 10 | Thus has been the pattern with sterling 's entry into the exchange-rate mechanism of the European Monetary System . |
| 11 | The press always has been a medium of propaganda as well as a medium of information . |
| 12 | erm There always has been the situation since Derek Roberts retired , and in fact his post was put in the pollution section , where there was only one E H O , the agreement then that there would be a swap straight E H O for technician swap , but food had traditionally , as long as I 've been involved have three E H Os . |
| 13 | The basic unit for society is and always has been the family . |
| 14 | To make matters worse , there is no evidence that lack of spending by social services is compensated for by increased NHS spending , or vice versa ; indeed , the financial allocation seems just as likely to be low from both authorities , as it has been , for example , in the London Borough of Lambeth , or very good in both authorities , as traditionally has been the case in Newcastle . |
| 15 | A general implication of the material considered throughout has been the limitation of supply-side analysis . |
| 16 | It also has been the subject of considerable historical debate . |
| 17 | However , so also has been the impact of social revolution , though rather less effectively . |
| 18 | They would not enable the courts to interfere where there clearly has been a breach of procedural fairness ; and they would permit the inferior tribunals to exceed the limited powers which Parliament has conferred upon them . |
| 19 | ‘ She really has been a menace , ’ Bob added . |
| 20 | It really has been a case of survival of the fittest . |
| 21 | But a malfunction occurs and he comes to believe that he really has been an intelligence agent who made a startling discovery on Mars … |
| 22 | Germany 's response to the Gulf war so far has been a week of hand-wringing and of big , mainly anti-American demonstrations . |
| 23 | It 's not quite as good as the bonking ladybirds that preceded it , but every single ad in the campaign so far has been a gem . |
| 24 | The only government support so far has been a recommendation by the Rural Development Commission , part of the Department of the Environment , to establish a pilot scheme . |
| 25 | The domination of Damian Cronin , Andrew Reed and Doddie Weir in all three matches so far has been a revelation and there must be a number of former international backs who are extremely envious of the amount of ball the current Scottish side are winning . |
| 26 | There have been murmurs of discontent among manufacturers considering diversifying away from Macao , but businessmen say that the only impact so far has been a shift of orders from China to Macao . |
| 27 | The one positive thing to emerge from privatisation so far has been the degree of accountability that has been imposed on Group 4 , far more stringent than the level the police and prison officers are used to . |
| 28 | The most striking Iraqi achievement so far has been the saving of its air force , a feat that owes more to engineering than combat . |
| 29 | One of the talking points of the year so far has been the coming of desktop publishing . |
| 30 | The upshot of our inquiry so far has been the drawing of a sharp distinction between the ‘ ego instincts ’ and the sexual instincts , and the view that the former exercise pressure towards death and the latter towards a prolongation of life … |