Example sentences of "[Wh det] have [been] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 We apply such a combination here to an issue which has been of central interest to urban sociology : the state , its concentration of power , and its relation to people 's daily lives .
2 Inevitably , priorities also shifted as a result of civil strife , which has been of fundamental importance to at least twelve of sub-Saharan Africa 's forty-one countries .
3 The trauma underlying religion , which has been for long periods of time forgotten , remaining latent in the unconscious , was also a mixture of sexuality and aggression .
4 The state-owned French firm made its bid for Piper public after a spate of rumours about the US company which has been in deep financial trouble since early 1990 .
5 The development will be on land which has been in constant industrial use since 1758 and was , until recently , a steel works .
6 This last index has been a boon to many UK fund managers concerned over relative performance , since it has been weighed down by the Tokyo market , which has been in sustained fall for a period of nearly three years .
7 The girls came into school discussing the merits of a programme they had seen the previous evening , a ‘ religious ’ programme , Meeting Point , which had been about pre-marital sex .
8 The council convener , Robert Gough , who presented a plaque to the crew , said it was with regret that they said goodbye to the squadron , which had been of great comfort to people in difficulty on land and sea .
9 Osric , king of Northumbria ( 718–29 ) ( HE V , 23 ) , no details of whose reign are known , could have been a son of Ealhfrith or of Aldfrith , and either way his accession will have represented a restoration of Oswiu 's family to royal power ( even if , in the former case , of a branch which had been in political eclipse for half a century ) , but his successor Ceolwulf ( 729–37 ) was a brother of Coenred ( HE V , 23 ) and Ceolwulf 's successor , Eadberht ( 737–58 ) , son of Eata , son of Leodwald , was Ceolwulf 's first cousin .
10 In 1978 I attended the Welsh ploughing championships , held on rich alluvial land in the Wye Valley which had been in continuous cereal production for several years .
11 In a general election held on Sept. 3 , 1988 [ see pp. 36352-53 ] , the People 's Action Party ( PAP — which had been in continuous majority since 1959 ) won all but one of the 81 elective seat .
12 The item below that is the shortfall in planning application fees , this is application fees for er mineral extraction applications which are , these are set as a statutory charge erm we 've picked up in the budget monitoring reports which have been to previous committees that the from this source has been falling off , as a few words explain that in this paragraph .
13 The Liberal governments of 1906–14 introduced new principles of social policy which have been of lasting importance , but in accordance with no conscious grand design directed at Cabinet level .
14 Very rightly , Mr. Beloff has presented arguments to the court , which have been of considerable assistance , and which were in favour of the plaintiffs and not of the Bank of England on the main issue of principle .
15 But his team had cohesion , some character , a little grit which have been in short supply in the present line-up .
16 Surprisingly though , even in what has been in recent years the most buoyant sector of oil product demand — petrol — there is likely to be a gradual lowering of demand despite increased usage of cars .
17 Much of what had been in the public sector of the old bourgeois state would be destroyed , while what had been in private hands would be taken over .
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