Example sentences of "has [adv] been [conj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IN THE recent report of the Church of England 's Doctrine Commission , We Believe in God , the doctrine of divine impassibility , that God can not suffer , is described as ‘ the most venerable theological position ’ and so it has generally been when Christians have endeavoured to think or speak about the nature of their God . |
| 2 | The standard answer to that has always been that submarines are growing more vulnerable to detection and bombers to preemptive strike . |
| 3 | My opinion has always been that fishermen , at least those who fish to catch and return , are on a par with the hunting fraternity . |
| 4 | Even though Darwinian evolution is represented as a competitive process , the outcome has often been that animals ended up working with each other . |
| 5 | It is n't and has n't been since players first received silver for kicking a ball more than a century ago . |