Example sentences of "have [been] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That would 've been quite a drive for you all the way to London . |
| 2 | The big push would be diplomatic propaganda screwing the pound sterling on the money markets … mugging the Mother of Parliaments would 've been quite a job . ’ |
| 3 | Yeah , that 's the whole thing , we 've gathered all the information now , we may 've been there an hour , hour an a half , maybe two hours depending upon the appointment so you go back to the office and work on a plan of attack . |
| 4 | Taiwan 's economic growth has been probably the world 's fastest over the past two decades . |
| 5 | Arlington Mill , in this picturesque Cotswold village astride the River Coln , has been both a corn and fulling mill in its time . |
| 6 | Decentralisation has been both a means of controlling public sector growth and a way to make public services more politically attractive , responsive and effective . |
| 7 | Thatcherism has been both a matter of style — combining impatience with much of the status quo and a relentless promotion of new attitudes — and policies . |
| 8 | Sicily has been both the home and haven of the Mafia because politicians throughout Italy have found it convenient to tolerate , rather than prosecute , its activities . |
| 9 | Serge Moscovici , who has been both the Marx and the Lenin of this revolutionary movement , has advocated a fundamental reorientation of social psychology around the concept of social representations . |
| 10 | There has been both an increase in the total number of households and a decrease in the average household size . |
| 11 | Today , however , the cathedral organist is more likely to be one who has been successively an organ scholar , a university graduate and a sub-organist at a cathedral . |
| 12 | Its defence has been largely the concern of other powers since the fall of Singapore in 1942 ; and the British independent nuclear deterrent is no more than a phrase , since it is not independent and , as the Falklands crisis of 1982 showed , it does not deter . |
| 13 | In the past , accommodating such users has been largely the province of a small number of individuals . |
| 14 | This has been largely an enterprise of male youth , asserting their own ‘ body politics ’ of the street through rules and rituals of territoriality . |
| 15 | There has been effectively no involvement on the part of UK funds in index arbitrage . |
| 16 | And that the business has been predominantly the nature of business has been predominantly manufacturing . |
| 17 | Since the beginning of September until this week there has been practically no rain , and the wind has never reached gale force , so the leaves have stayed on the trees far longer than usual , with a constantly changing pattern of glorious colour . |
| 18 | The shift of Amis 's mind , thoughtful and unphilosophical as it is , has been broadly a pattern to others of his age . |
| 19 | This has been partially a result of literate Europe 's historical-mindedness ; one of its first manifestations was the rapid appearance of a number of new historical journals at the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | For centuries the practice of philosophy has been overwhelmingly the prerogative of men but it is only recently that feminist analysis has made it possible to see the distorting effect of this historical fact . |
| 21 | As far as I am concerned , Bergman has been officially a man since the end of the Upper Removes . |
| 22 | ‘ There has been absolutely no discussion going on as to how many Liberal Democrat bottoms will sit in the back of how many government Daimlers , ’ he said . |
| 23 | In the past , and sometimes even in the present , bad environmental management of rivers has been only a part and a symptom of bad man-management . |
| 24 | Although Joanne feels sore at the selectors , there are those who believe that she has been more a victim of circumstance than anything else . |
| 25 | There has been almost no concern expressed , however , about the implications of automated office systems for future research methodologies . |
| 26 | It is astonishing to think that in the forty-odd years after the invention of printing , no fewer than ninety-four editions came off the presses of Europe ; and that for four centuries there has been almost no year in which a new edition has not appeared in England . |
| 27 | Yet there has been almost no research into primary school children 's developing historical competence . |
| 28 | There has been almost a hush about tonight 's event . |
| 29 | Until now Sarajevo airport has been almost a haven from the gunfire . |
| 30 | In some sectors of manufacturing there has been almost a reluctance to change . |