Example sentences of "has [adv] been [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The situation in the Gulf may now dwarf the Palestinian issue , but no Middle East crisis can be seen in isolation ; a thousand days of protest has assured the plight of Palestinians has rarely been off the world agenda .
2 He 's one of the strongest scrummagers in the game yet has rarely been inside a gym in his life , although a few of his international colleagues swear that he must be a closet trainer .
3 Bob Stokes , who was coach of the side when they last won the trophy ( under the guise of Whitburn ) has since been to the final on six occasions ( with Whitburn and Team Scottish Farm ) and lost every time .
4 The province has since been in the forefront of China 's efforts to reassure foreign businessmen that its door will be staying open for ‘ business as usual ’ .
5 The carpet has obviously been in the family for years , too , and the Rembrandt is unrestored and almost completely black .
6 To open up a situation , to broaden thinking which has hitherto been from a limited viewpoint .
7 Recently the big news has all been about the latest electronic machines and computer programs for them .
8 Reform of the rating system has long been on the political agenda .
9 California has long been at the green cutting edge , and had the bill been passed , other states and possibly nations may have followed in its wake .
10 Such initiatives petered out in the decades after the war ; indeed , it has only been since the mid 1980s that new attempts have been made , in Nell 's words , ‘ to regain the higher ground ’ , re-establishing the Underground as an influential patron of public art as well as improving the passenger environment .
11 But this has only been at the ‘ official ’ level ; as Sykes ( 1958 ) and many subsequent studies have shown , loss of a sense of physical security is still one of the major ‘ pains of imprisonment ’ as perceived by inmates .
12 The interesting thing has been that each time we have revised the strategy we have been partially right , but it has only been as a result of a whole series of revisits , reorganizations and reassessments , as well as changing people , perspectives and systems , that we seem to have got enough right to be able to fight our corner .
13 He barely speaks Italian and in fact has only been to the country of his ancestry once — on a school trip .
14 SINBAD has been cleaning the windows in Channel 4 's Brookside since 1984 , although he has only been on a regular contract for the last two years .
15 Due to lack of time , contact with Churches has only been on an informal basis .
16 It has only been in the last year or so that the Government has started to grapple with major areas of social policy like education and housing .
17 Jaromil has discovered that writing can be what reading has familiarly been for the ordinary person : an escape , a shelter , a door to the alternative self .
18 Saunders , who has scored 11 goals in 35 international appearances , has not been on a losing side since August 23 .
19 He added : ‘ I 'm astounded he has not been on the fringe of the Dutch team . ’
20 Mason has not been on the losing side since joining Blyth 16 games ago .
21 An untitled drip painting by Jackson Pollock which has not been on the market since 1949 is estimated at $1–1.5 million ( £666,000–1,000,000 ) and will be the highlight of this sale of contemporary art .
22 High points of the show are large-format charcoal and red chalk drawings from 1898–99 , a number of landscapes of the area around Worpswede , and a horizontal format variation on the theme of ‘ Child Blowing a Horn ’ , which has not been on the market since the 1930s .
23 In profit-oriented organizations this emphasis has not been to the exclusion of performance measures for the simple reason that , because of the existence of the profit measure , the stewardship accounts can be analysed to yield pointers to performance .
24 The intense moments of pain and fear that gripped me were too remote to be understood by anyone who has not been through a similar experience .
25 The extreme range seems to be from 5 to 6.4 or so , but generally it remains between 4.6 and 5.2 ; it has not been through a major minimum since 1949 .
26 Erm I must say I share Peter 's view here that the er location of the new settlement , whether in general terms or by district , has not been through the public consultation process .
27 To be fair , I did n't , I did say we 're talking about parenting and one one could do another programme perhaps , focusing on the child or the needs and rights of the child in specific , but I think I 've been looking at the almost the scariness , I suppose , of being a parent , the challenges facing parents and the whole half hour , really , has not been about the joys of parenthood , so much as the problems of parenthood !
28 The increase has not been at a constant rate .
29 He added : ‘ Whereas in the previous downturn in the 1980s when a lot of cyclical companies were haemorraging cash , this time the pressure on profits has not been at the expense of their financial position . ’
30 However , constitutional theory has not been at the heart of modern social science research .
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