Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [adv] been [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Portree has long been the commercial centre of the Isle of Skye . |
| 2 | Brooks has always been a strong influence in the stability market , evidenced by the long-term success of the Chariot . |
| 3 | ICI has long been a major supplier of surfactants , which are the active ingredient in detergents . |
| 4 | In the one Eastern Europe country where the communists had some claim to popular legitimacy in the past , opposition spokesmen freely proclaim : ‘ Czechoslovakia has never been a communist country . |
| 5 | CICS has traditionally been a tool for selling IBM mainframes . |
| 6 | Cambridgeshire has never been a county dominated by the nobility and gentry , for the degree of manorial fragmentation found there from Domesday Book onwards did not encourage the development of strong lordship . |
| 7 | In one sense Milton Resnick has always been a Minimalist : his paintings characteristically consist of a single all-over field of colour . |
| 8 | Rugby has always been a game for all shapes and sizes — the short and the tall , the squat and the big . |
| 9 | Igls has long been a popular summer haunt of the Austrians , and therefore has much to offer the visitor . |
| 10 | It may be the case — I hope it is — that Borg has always been a much happier man than he has seemed , and that his resumption of his old trade is more a matter of idle curiosity about himself than it is a neurotic search for lost identity . |
| 11 | Mrs Mitterrand has long been a defender of the Kurdish cause and last July toured the area where the weekend air raids took place . |
| 12 | erm If we go back , Kuwait has always been an independent country until the Ottoman Empire was erm threatening that area , and they were ruling the Arab peninsula , which later to be known as Iraq , and when the Kuwaiti people felt the threat of the Ottoman Empire they signed a treaty with the British at that time , and that was in eighteen ninety nine and Iraq was established in nineteen twenty , so we are are ahead of that . |
| 13 | Although Calabria has always been a poor region , Apulia , in the years from the ninth to twelfth century , was rich . |
| 14 | Even in this sense as Chapter 5 will show , the LDP has hardly been a united force , with the cabinet and Diet members divided into personality factions and at odds with bureaucrats or business on some issues . |
| 15 | Faldo has often been the butt of cruel comments from other US tour pros , who deride his application , attitude and pace of play . |
| 16 | My one criticism of SansAmp has always been the harshness of the top end ; the GX-7 certainly has less odd harmonics and so produces a distortion sound which is more pleasing to the ear . |
| 17 | Upper Ribblesdale has long been a magnet for experienced cavers , potholers and geologists . |
| 18 | Nottinghamshire has always been an industrious county and the skills of local people have contributed over the centuries to the growth of a diversity of well known products . |
| 19 | Spencer had always been the favoured one , beloved by mother since his difficult birth made it impossible for her to have any more children . |
| 20 | Todger had never been the same since they got to Hambury . |
| 21 | David had always been a great fashion person as well . |
| 22 | Saturday had merely been a run-in ; she could see it now . |
| 23 | The weekend at Carberry had been well received , though the Saturday had perhaps been a little heavy for the participants . |
| 24 | The Vaudeville on rue Vivienne had always been a favourite of Roquelaure 's . |
| 25 | Since the 1920s Northern Ireland has usually been the most economically depressed region of the United Kingdom , and the secular decline of the linen industry is central to any explanation of this relatively poor performance . |
| 26 | Scotland has never been a stranger to drug-related violence , though our favourite drug of choice has been legal for centuries . |
| 27 | Since Columbus first called , almost 500 years ago , Las Palmas de Gran Canaria has always been a sailors ' town . |
| 28 | Initially , it is probably fair to say that the NHS has always been a prolific collector of data , usually fairly basic data and almost always for bureaucratic purposes whether to satisfy regional or national demands for returns . |
| 29 | I 've been to most European countries , but Albania has always been a closed country . |
| 30 | Getting power out of the Honda NSR has never been a great problem though . |