Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [been] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This change has been chiefly in the direction of the broadening of its outlook on life . ’ |
| 2 | The evidence discussed in this final section of the chapter has been uniformly in favour of the associative account of acquired equivalence and distinctiveness . |
| 3 | Roman Catholicism has been more in line with the other great world religions in insisting that mysticism is only for a few chosen souls and that , unless one has this special propensity , mysticism can be a serious health threat . |
| 4 | Over the years a niggling rivalry has been much in evidence between the two clubs , although Whaddon have progressed to a much higher standard of football . |
| 5 | The distinction has been more in the minds of the negotiators ( especially the British negotiators ) than it has been a reality or , more important , likely to be given much credence by the Court of Justice if and when it comes to adjudicate on the basis of the Treaty . |
| 6 | It had disturbed her enough , and even if the unwritten reproof had been solely in her own imagination she was not about to look again and check it . |
| 7 | I do not believe it is disputed that this factor has been powerfully in operation recently . |
| 8 | By s. 3 of the 1986 Act the court may make a disqualification order where it appears that the person has been persistently in default in delivering returns , accounts or other documents to the Registrar of Companies . |
| 9 | The recession has hit all industries and acting has been right in the thick of it . |
| 10 | Isabel 's personal integrity had been there in her clear gaze all the time , if he 'd been thinking with his head instead of with his emotions . |
| 11 | The Court , however , ruled on March 19 , 1991 , that the Commission had been within in its powers in invoking Article 90 of the Treaty of Rome , which allowed it to override government objections in such cases [ see p. 36154 ] . |
| 12 | All I have ever known of love has been here in this house . |
| 13 | His judicial appointments were much criticized on the ground in effect that ‘ Halsbury appointed to the High Court , and to a lesser extent to the county court , men of little or no legal learning whose previous career in public life had been largely in the service of the Conservative Party or else were relations of his own ’ . |
| 14 | When her alarm woke her up the next morning , she felt heavy-eyed and lacking in energy , but that was probably because her sleep had been long in coming and had been plagued with dreams when she had eventually managed to drop off . |
| 15 | Even though there are signs that the world 's economies are beginning to operate closer together in time terms , nevertheless in the past it has been seldom that every part of the world has been simultaneously in total depression . |
| 16 | In Devon , in particular , both private and public sector new housing has been predominantly in the larger settlements , especially those within commuting distance of the main urban centres ( Cloke 1979 ) . |
| 17 | This has been accomplished in Switzerland with such precision in the past that involuntary unemployment has been often in the low hundreds . |
| 18 | In the past the torus has been more in favour as its plasma containment is more efficient . |
| 19 | The master had been wildly in love with the governess , you see , ma'am , although she was just a plain little thing , and when she disappeared , he almost went mad . |
| 20 | While In 1960 Cambridge English had been still in the process of accommodating traditional canonical scholarship to the revisions of the new criticism , by the end of that decade this process had been displaced in the name of a pluralism of approaches . |
| 21 | While the unit had been away in the field , the usual correspondence was being exchanged between the various staffs involved , almost certainly without Stirling 's knowledge . |
| 22 | Aircrew cameraderie has been much in evidence , the atomosphere relaxed . |
| 23 | And , most of all , Trent would like to have known why the photograph he had taken from Don Roberto 's house had been there in the first place . |
| 24 | New developments in filtration have been mainly in the direction of improving performance and lengthening the times between backwashing . |