Example sentences of "this have [been] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This has been mostly in agricultural chemicals where tonnages have proved a good fit with Hickson 's type of batch equipment .
2 This has been so for centuries , and afflicts all nations .
3 This has been so for the Cape Verdians for close on 300 years , from the time when the original emigrants first found jobs on the North American whaling fleet .
4 This has been so for decades and there is little on the horizon that threatens to curtail it .
5 This has been so in the MDC , although efforts were made to foster links with the now-defunct metropolitan county ( Boaden , 1982 ) .
6 This has been more like Labour conferences of old , with dust ups and cliff hanging votes , unlike last year 's sanitised affair .
7 One of its themes will have to be the confusion in our morality that the epidemic has exposed , and this has been much in evidence in the past few days in response to the ludicrous concert in commemoration of Freddie Mercury , and then the renewal of the controversial theory that Aids may not be linked to HIV at all , but instead , to cite one example , to promiscuous sexual activity that reputedly attacks the immune system .
8 This had been so in Emma 's day , and was so still , for once or twice Ruth had asked Rachaela some arithmetical question which Rachaela also found impossible to answer .
9 This had been there for thousands of years and had defeated the British Raj 's efforts to move it .
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