Example sentences of "[conj] has [adv] been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because assessments of the spirit of community depend so much on highly variable subjective preferences and values , which may fluctuate according to the individual and the village concerned and even to the mood of the individual at a particular time , it is virtually impossible to generalize about whether there has or has not been a perceptible ‘ decline of community ’ in the English village . |
| 2 | ‘ For most people that has not been a problem — the pay-as-you-earn system already deals very simply with the tax affairs of some 16 million employees . |
| 3 | Street children like Manoel now fear more than temporary incarceration at Febem , the Dickensian state orphanage that has long been a synonym for alienation and violence . |
| 4 | The effects of observers ' values and predispositions on their perceptions , descriptions , and analyses of ethnographic reality is , of course , an issue that has long been a matter of explicit concern to anthropologists . |
| 5 | Vera , office supervisor in the Enrichment Projects Design Department , has combined her career with service as an officer of the CPSA and has also been a long-serving member of the Benevolent Fund management committee . |
| 6 | For the past two years she has been Chairman of the ‘ Kent Teachers ’ and has also been a member of the Kent display Team since 1976 . |
| 7 | So it has no official status whatsoever and has not been a subject of consideration by the County Council . |
| 8 | ED BEHR , middle right , reported from Vietnam for Newsweek from 1967 to 1971 , and has recently been a consultant to the producers of the musical Miss Saigon . |
| 9 | The Ley eventually reverted to the Garnstone estate and has long been a farmhouse , which it remains to this day . |
| 10 | Steve Kember is a Croydon lad and has always been a great favourite at his local Football League Club , for which he signed as an apprentice in 1963 and full professional in 1965 . |
| 11 | Otherwise Avocets are predominantly spring passage migrants in Sussex ; the paucity of autumn records seems remarkable and has always been a feature of the species ' occurrence in the county . |
| 12 | The pentatonic major scale is and has always been a pre-eminent part of the rock guitarist 's vocabulary . |
| 13 | The discreet field of African art , which escaped art market speculation and has always been a strong point at the fair , will be better represented than ever this year by six dealers , two of them newcomers — Meyer and Ratton , both from Paris . |