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

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1 I told him it must 've been about the Royal Garden Party .
2 In recent years , the major underlying conflict , stoked up by personality clashes between union leaders , has been between the industrial union ethos of the NUR and the continuing craft aspirations of ASLEF .
3 The struggle has been between the Czech people and the security apparatus behind the Communist party .
4 The struggle has been between the Czech people and the security apparatus behind the Communist party .
5 The latest trend has been towards the darker types , still usually sedimented , and today wheat beer has a good 25 per cent of the Bavarian market .
6 Wade Dooley is by no means the only player who was apt to be more profitable under the old laws than he has been under the new .
7 From January 1993 , the Land Assessment business has been under the operational control of Iain Ferrier , supported by Nigel Board and Peter Constantine in the South .
8 It seems that the whole force has been under the direct comd of General Loehr , until contact with him was lost many days ago . "
9 ‘ This case has been through the due process of law , has been carefully considered at every stage and reviewed at frequent intervals .
10 Unlike North America the involvement of government in economic life has been through the increased regulation of the private sector ; in the U K it has resulted in the public ownership of the industries or utilities concerned .
11 This programme has been through the first round of application approvals which saw the Regional Council gain around £17,000 to capital and around £600,000 to revenue .
12 Littlewoods has been through the classic problems of succession for a company built by a single man .
13 Pat in EastEnders and Bet in Coronation Street who were both , I think , wonderful before they got married have really become very boring now that they 've got husbands , and Rita , of course , has been through the terrible chastening and disempowering experience of a ‘ film noir ’ femme fatale .
14 While Data General Corp made a net loss of $63 million for fiscal 1992 , the company maintains that it has been through the worst in its transition from proprietary to open systems , and is now seeing considerable growth in demand for its high-end multiprocessor AViiON servers .
15 Food which has been through the steaming mode has an appetizing colour , is cooked al dente ( still firm when bitten ) , and retains all the important nutrients , vitamins and minerals .
16 The Company Securities ( Insider Dealing Act 1985 ) provides that a person ( ‘ the buyer ’ ) who knowingly obtains information , directly or indirectly , from an individual ( ‘ the insider ’ ) who is or has been during the preceding six months ‘ knowingly connected ’ with the company commits a criminal offence if the buyer deals on a recognised Stock Exchange in securities of that company when the buyer : —
17 Sec. in his report remarked on the high level of activity there has been during the past year .
18 However , with all these reservations and qualifications noted there is a city called Tyneside and in 1989 North Shields is part of it as it always has been and Cramlington is as it has been since the early 1970s .
19 In Ivory Coast the transfer of ownership has been essentially from the foreign private investor to the local private investor : government remains the owner of 50 per cent of corporate capital ( as it has been since the 1960s ) and the foreign investors ' share has been reduced to 30 per cent , with the local private sector taking the remainder .
20 Romero is a provincial film-maker by choice and has been since the 1960s , long before this was common — if indeed it is even now , despite the growth of independent film-making and its important contribution to the artistically enfeebled Hollywood mainstream .
21 And a lot of psychological research is devoted , as it has been since the 1950s , to disproving unfounded suppositions of black subjects ' inferiority in these areas .
22 It is a short-stay winner , however ; the most interesting growth area in recent years has been outside the big cities and the theme parks : we are following the President 's advice to ‘ Discover America . ’
23 Quorum , which says some of the blame for Equal 's delay has been on the legal hassle it had last year with Apple Computer Inc , which held up financing and staffing , will position the product as a Mac application adaptor rather than an emulator .
24 Quorum , who says some of the blame for Equal 's delay has been on the legal hassle it had last year with Apple ( UX No 393 ) which held up financing and staffing , will position Equal as a Mac application adapter rather than an emulator .
25 Since the mid 1950s , the Office of Communication has been on the front line in the battle to give minorities and women a greater voice in the broadcast industry .
26 It is inevitable that much of the debate has been on the European Community and on what my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary said in his opening speech .
27 Ever since then , Labour has been on the defensive , both ideologically and demographically .
28 The 1980s have seen a public debate about the effects upon the economy of the growing proportion of old people in Britain ; and the stress has been on the increasing burden of costs that will result ( Department of Health and Social Security ( DHSS ) , 1985 ) .
29 In fact a more limited regime of this kind has been on the Soviet agenda for the Mediterranean for many years .
30 WHILE our attention has been on the General Election and its aftermath , the Serbs have been up to their old tricks .
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