Example sentences of "have [adv] been one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The continued dominance of City and Civil Service elites has often been seen as a barrier to dynamism in British industry ; in fact , it has merely been one aspect of a secure and integrated dominant class , linked by kinship , ownership of wealth and distinctive patterns of education . |
| 2 | Even so , there has already been one triumph : inflation fell to 6% in the year to the third quarter , the lowest rate for 18 years apart from a brief spell in 1984–85 . |
| 3 | There has always been one factor which has dominated the convictions of those who have sought to establish a religion , or its equivalent under whatever name . |
| 4 | Of course , the desire to obtain control of the written word has always been one indication of the autocratic mind . |
| 5 | FO Well , our non-ferrous metals limit has usually been one milligramme per litre , they have recently changed to 0.5 milligrams per litre now . |
| 6 | The Ridgeway on the Berkshire Downs is edged by the traces of thousands of acres of late prehistoric fields and would have merely been one lane among many passing through a totally cultivated landscape . |
| 7 | Yesterday there had only been one dress on display . |
| 8 | There had only been one shot . |
| 9 | With fifty teams present , there had also been one hell of a party the night before . |
| 10 | Right , we , we , we did actually draw , or we not draw , we , we adopted a constitution during the year and the officers that are erm elected are the Chair , the Secretary and the Treasurer , erm and other , together with other such officers , yeah to determine by general meeting , erm , so it 's really only those three , er and we have sometimes had Advice Chair if there 's only been one Chairman have n't we , one Chair person erm so I think people need to say if they do n't wish to carry on the jobs they 're doing and if anybody wishes to nominate anyone in a particular post then slip at the bottom of the minutes could be filled in and either brought to meeting or sent back to the Secretary . |
| 11 | Tommy 's always been one step ahead . |
| 12 | Through all my sentences , and if you add them together , I 've done twenty-one , twenty-two months in all , there 's never been one day when I 've kept my mouth shut , without an argument or something . |
| 13 | Well there 's certainly been one element of the the input to the preparation of the structure plan , but there has also been some independent view on the the capacity and the the environmental problems that individual districts across North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire have in their ability to accommodate development , and on the pressure and the problems that those pressures of development will have on those individual districts , bearing in mind the environmental constraints identified both in National and in the Secretary of State 's previous approval of the structure plan . |