Example sentences of "[noun prp] has [adv] been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brooks has always been a strong influence in the stability market , evidenced by the long-term success of the Chariot . |
| 2 | ICI has long been a major supplier of surfactants , which are the active ingredient in detergents . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | CICS has traditionally been a tool for selling IBM mainframes . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In one sense Milton Resnick has always been a Minimalist : his paintings characteristically consist of a single all-over field of colour . |
| 7 | Rugby has always been a game for all shapes and sizes — the short and the tall , the squat and the big . |
| 8 | Igls has long been a popular summer haunt of the Austrians , and therefore has much to offer the visitor . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Mrs Mitterrand has long been a defender of the Kurdish cause and last July toured the area where the weekend air raids took place . |
| 11 | I think the bottom line of this issue , frankly , is that the U S er attorney the governmental er investigating authorities in this matter have had this information at their disposal for several years now , had there been any question of G Tec 's behaviour er we would certainly be the subject of something that we are not right now , and that the bottom line is we have been assured from the outset that G Tec has not been a subject of this investigation , that G Tec 's behaviour has been above reproach , and as far as his comments go we we do n't really know what context to put them in . |
| 12 | Although Calabria has always been a poor region , Apulia , in the years from the ninth to twelfth century , was rich . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Upper Ribblesdale has long been a magnet for experienced cavers , potholers and geologists . |
| 15 | Scotland has never been a stranger to drug-related violence , though our favourite drug of choice has been legal for centuries . |
| 16 | Since Columbus first called , almost 500 years ago , Las Palmas de Gran Canaria has always been a sailors ' town . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I 've been to most European countries , but Albania has always been a closed country . |
| 19 | JANUARY has not been a distinguished month for the Thai police . |
| 20 | Getting power out of the Honda NSR has never been a great problem though . |
| 21 | North Shields has always been a fishing centre but the construction of the new fish quay in 1886 and the invention of steam trawling by the tug-boat firm of Purdies led to a big growth in activity in the late nineteenth century and the development of a distant water fleet . |
| 22 | Reeth has always been a good walking centre , particularly for walkers from Tyneside and Teesside , and on many occasions I 've heard the hills round about echoing to a sound I love so well , the lilt of Geordie accents . |
| 23 | Until now his brother Phil has just been a shoulder for his wife to cry on . |
| 24 | Whereas Mr Orlando has long been a troublesome hero for his party , Mr Segni does not look like a troublemaker . |
| 25 | It was n't always so ; in its time , Reading has also been a hippy haven , a pub rock paddock , a new wave Jamboree and the worst heavy metal headbangers ' ball imaginable . |
| 26 | The annual report published by HMI has always been a loose-leaf , photocopied document , shoved out at a time designed least to embarrass Ministers . |
| 27 | Wedgwood has also been a popular topic on the national airwaves . |
| 28 | ‘ I know what all the world knows , ’ his sister maintained stoutly , ‘ and that is that Fatima has always been a true wife to you . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I liked the comments of match ‘ experts ’ Andy Gray and Chris Waddle , while commentator Martin Tyler has always been a favourite of mine . |
| 30 | Tom Burness has also been a member of the Scottish Community Education Council and the Scottish Council for Educational Technology . |