Example sentences of "have [prep] a [noun sg] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | This stance was not new but has for a while been taken by Nationalism Today . |
| 2 | Each spurt in investment has for a time been halfway successful in boosting harvests and production , but policy to date has failed to grasp the nettles of productivity , variety , distribution and responsible land use . |
| 3 | Because the countryside involves working the land , and that land has in a sense been here forever , there appears to be something eternal about rural life , its rhythms and patterns , that city life can never reproduce . |
| 4 | Their society has in a word been bowdlerised . |
| 5 | In some companies this role has to a degree been formalised through the creation of audit committees made up of non-executives , their function being to review the effectiveness of the company 's auditing procedures and to liaise with the auditors . |
| 6 | In recent years the model 's exclusive focus on shareholder interests has to a degree been modified . |
| 7 | Secondly , I know that this committee has over a time been concerned about the resource needs |
| 8 | Christopher and I then returned to the fringes of power , having for a time been drawn perilously close to the centre . ’ |
| 9 | While moral suasion had been favoured in the War ( in preference to rationing ) as a means of restricting domestic demand , and had for a time been partially successful , as peace returned it lost much of its impact . |
| 10 | To Miss D'Arcy he was Colonel Hope ; to Mary he had for a moment been Augustus ; to his new self , John alone ; with Joanna he had no name and experienced the inscrutable animal comfort of brief blank joy . |
| 11 | He could neither move nor think , as if all power had at a stroke been cut off from both body and brain . |