Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This region has long been a spawning ground for Croat hotheads who dream of annexing this area to Croatia . |
| 2 | Marrakesh has long been a winter watering hole for the rich , the chic and the famous and the Shah had arrived at the height of the tourist season . |
| 3 | Gregory Butler has long been a field leader in this domain . |
| 4 | Banbury had long been a market town of importance , and acquired a modest industrial capacity in the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | Images which parallel food and the body have long been the staple diet of art ; as the body became increasingly edible in Godfrey-Isaacs ' earlier work , so the current series also has its ‘ food appeal ’ . |
| 6 | So far though it has not been a problem raising money for the sharp end of mountain rescue — for new ropes or new vehicles and the like . |
| 7 | The sketch was one where he played a man contemplating how different life might have been had there not been a world war . |
| 8 | Would it have been better if it had not been a corner ball ? |
| 9 | The entire episode might have gone unnoticed had there not been a routine monitoring of the base communications tapes last week . |
| 10 | However , he went on to say that even if the sale had not been a consumer sale , the exclusion clause was unreasonable since the buyer would be left with no remedy insofar as it purported to exclude the merchantability provision . |
| 11 | Lord Cameron came to the conclusion that there had not been a baton charge in Duke Street but that many policemen had drawn their batons individually and when ordered to disperse the march , had then used them indiscriminately . |
| 12 | In recent years the Employment Department and the Department of Trade and Industry have been responsible for appropriate interventions but they have been more of a fire fighting nature than a sustained development of policy and role — which in any case , has not been the way government departments have tended to behave since they are organised to implement government policy in the immediate rather than long term . |
| 13 | Bureaucratic power has thus been a reference point for many outside observers of the Soviet Union , in particular , in their attempts to identify the distinctive nature of communist political systems ( Lane 1978 , Ch. 6 ) . |
| 14 | The 50th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War has largely been an armchair affair , commemorated in newspapers and magazines , on the radio and television . |
| 15 | Oh just been a collection steward , the new young secretary said . |
| 16 | Perhaps he had just been a delivery boy . |
| 17 | To lighten the proceedings he told us of an incident some years ago when there had still been a whaling station in the town . |
| 18 | Rivers have always been a dumping ground for man 's unwanted waste . |
| 19 | My first choice had always been a pay review body and the significant breakthrough came when Geoffrey Howe and Leon Brittan at the Treasury also backed this proposal . |
| 20 | He 'd always been a dairy farmer , you see , like I am . |
| 21 | Well er as I say , I 've always been a union member but then when I was self-employed it was different and I kept me fees up for a , to somewhere I do n't know what it was , but er when er yes , when er I was coming to come on me own and I went down the locksmith 's to see about it and they said er , what did they say now , they said you could n't do that , whatever it was , and er we 'll have to do this and that and the other . |
| 22 | As far as can be ascertained , it has always been a corn mill , mainly grinding corn from local farms for local consumption and in later life , rolled oats for local farmers . |
| 23 | It has always been a corn mill and continued working , somewhat sporadically , up to the middle of the 1950s . |
| 24 | Macros have always been a core part of WordPerfect . |
| 25 | Adrian Blackman is a worker and a trier , of whom no one could ask more , but there has always been a question mark over his speed and flexibility . |
| 26 | Two-Dogs had not always been a whisky Navaho , and he had taught his son the stories his father had taught to him . |
| 27 | Although Monica was brought up in London , she has always been a country girl at heart . |
| 28 | Gator 's been riding for Vision practically since the birth of the wheel , and thus his models have always been a Vision favourite . |
| 29 | BOYS ' Brigade football has always been a breeding ground for talent and the proof will be on parade at Seaview on Tuesday night . |
| 30 | His career has always been a family affair . |