Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] have [been] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The best thing of all has been the chance of taking part in this war … |
| 5 | A Leeds frailty of late has been the inability of the side to convert the pressure they exert on the opposition . |
| 6 | Throughout there has been a high profile given to safety procedures , under the control of safety manager . |
| 7 | However that does not square somehow with the suggestion that Deloitte is poised to announce a link-up with Coopers & Lybrand which until now has been a wallflower at this rather bizarre accountancy barn dance . |
| 8 | The resolution of this issue , which until then had been a major sticking point [ see pp. 37259 ; 37303 ; 37379 ; 37466 ; 37535 ] , paved the way for the resolution of outstanding issues in the third round of " two-plus-four " talks on July 17 . |
| 9 | The National Assembly was dissolved , and Cape Verde members withdrew from the single party , the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde ( Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde — PAIGC ) , which until then had been the ruling party in both countries . |
| 10 | The reaction in there has been a bit bitter really because one feels that British Coal are n't telling everything that that 's happening . |
| 11 | Many communities had become sharply divided as a result of the way the penal laws had been enforced at the local level , and understandably Nonconformists retained a deep distrust of their Anglican neighbours who until recently had been the agents of their destruction . |
| 12 | Even at seventeen , which up to now had been the high point of her existence , the passions raised had not one tithe of the sizzling fire that had been generated by Benedict . |
| 13 | This sort of transient simulation , which up to now has been a difficult and expensive exercise , brings an improved understanding of the behaviour of multiphase flow lines . |
| 14 | From the 1970s on there has been a considerable surge of scholarly and public interest in the private media and , latterly , in their role in the Third World . |
| 15 | And all the openings nights since then have been the same . |
| 16 | She probably had a real great impression of herself right she did and then when she turns round and we said well I 'm sorry and said well sorry no got a bloody big shock , gave her a shock to the system and to be quite honest what I 've seen of her since then has been a darn sight more er spruced up and a bit more on the bloody ball than she was before |
| 17 | Mr Ivory 's only contact with Chatchai since then has been a phone call , in which the little boy told him : ‘ We go to Bangkok and never come back . ’ |
| 18 | It is arguable , with some hope of success , that we can speak of a choice or a decision as an effect and not be committed to there having been a causal circumstance which was required for it , and speak of an action as an effect and need not be committed to there having been a causal circumstance that was — roughly speaking — prior in time to the agent 's initial neurophysiological activity . |
| 19 | It is arguable , with some hope of success , that we can speak of a choice or a decision as an effect and not be committed to there having been a causal circumstance which was required for it , and speak of an action as an effect and need not be committed to there having been a causal circumstance that was — roughly speaking — prior in time to the agent 's initial neurophysiological activity . |
| 20 | For instance , if the working class parties of pre-fascist Germany had really represented the class itself , the latter would have been more easily aroused than it in fact was , and the rise of fascism would at least have been a greater struggle . |
| 21 | She thought : I should at least have been a little drunk . |
| 22 | Strach 's looking tired and rocky would at least have been a reasonable replacement , White is more of a winger/ striker than a creative midfield player . |
| 23 | Strach 's looking tired and rocky would at least have been a reasonable replacement , White is more of a winger/ striker than a creative midfield player . |
| 24 | Skomer Island off the Dyfed ( formerly Pembrokeshire ) coast was chosen as the specific target as it should by now have been a statutory Marine Nature Reserve . |