Example sentences of "have been an [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Collis , ( 70 ) , a former captain at Holywood , has been an officer with the branch for 25 years . |
| 2 | Recently in the Department there has been an instance of a telephone order which has been brought to my attention by the County Council auditors . |
| 3 | New , high-technology industries have prospered ( especially during the late 1980s ) and there has been an expansion of small businesses . |
| 4 | The result has been an expansion in diesel motoring at a time when other sales have been down . |
| 5 | Central to the programme has been an awareness of the following criteria : |
| 6 | Although microbial polyesters were discovered in the 1920s , it is only in the past decade that there has been an explosion of international research interest in all aspects of their production , formulation and use . |
| 7 | The consequence has been an explosion of FDI flows among the developed countries , as we noted in chapter 1 . |
| 8 | There has been an explosion of night visiting . |
| 9 | The result has been an explosion in direct sales . |
| 10 | In recent years there has been an explosion in the growth of business travel . |
| 11 | There has been an explosion in the number of seminaries in Brazil . |
| 12 | First , there has been an explosion in the quantity of information , but no corresponding useful measure of quality . |
| 13 | In my judgment there is no question but that there has been a source of income in the deposit of money , and at any rate there has been an addition to a source of income here . |
| 14 | ‘ There has been an escalation of recorded Darkfalls in the past decade , ’ continued Gilbert . |
| 15 | Where has been an escalation of aggression or at any time , having regard to these Guidelines , a member of staff considers it appropriate , there should be an internal review of a resident 's progress . |
| 16 | ‘ There has been an escalation in the number of complaints against staff recently . |
| 17 | There has been an overestimation of property prices in the Government 's thinking . |
| 18 | Mr McDonald no longer drinks but has been an alcoholic for more than a decade . |
| 19 | There has been an attack on organised trade-union resistance , on marginalised groups , on young people , especially young black people in the name of a pragmatic economic programme . |
| 20 | This has been done by an emphasis on individualism , self-help , hard work and thrift , whilst at the same time there has been an attack on collectivism and socialism as repressive and unworldly values . |
| 21 | Too often in the past there has been an over-reliance on the traditional overdraft facilities in preference to term loans and equity finance , even though the latter may be more appropriate . |
| 22 | ‘ He has been an inspiration to us . |
| 23 | Family support : ‘ Thomas has been an inspiration to us , ’ says Beverley |
| 24 | He has always been a source of inspiration to me and I hope that he will take it as a compliment when I say that , from the days when I was a student , he has been an inspiration to me . |
| 25 | There has been an upturn in demand on the east coast of the US , but in the UK , bulk building materials and plant hire remain moribund . |
| 26 | In practical politics corporatism has been an ideology of social integration , espoused especially by non-elected political elites trying to manage increasingly complex societies without introducing liberal representative government . |
| 27 | ‘ It has been an act of faith to keep going . |
| 28 | Her father has been an elder of the kirk for the last twenty years . |
| 29 | It has been an axiom of historical interpretation to attribute the failure of reform , in its eighteenth- and nineteenth-century forms , to the absence of a Spanish ‘ middle class ’ . |
| 30 | Tintas International has been an affiliate of International Paint since 1926 , while Supertintas was a more recent acquisition , in 1984 . |