Example sentences of "has [prep] [art] [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This stance was not new but has for a while been taken by Nationalism Today . |
| 2 | Each spurt in investment has for a time been halfway successful in boosting harvests and production , but policy to date has failed to grasp the nettles of productivity , variety , distribution and responsible land use . |
| 3 | The problem of bridging the gap between early experience and later personality has for the time being been shelved , and questions are being asked instead about what is indeed the logically prior problem : whether and in what way infants of various ages are affected by specified environmental happenings . |
| 4 | Indeed , support for Salman Rushdie and all that his situation stands for has from the start been more vociferous and active abroad than in his own country , something he feels understandably bitter about . |
| 5 | Because the countryside involves working the land , and that land has in a sense been here forever , there appears to be something eternal about rural life , its rhythms and patterns , that city life can never reproduce . |
| 6 | Their society has in a word been bowdlerised . |
| 7 | It was upon that stage that the United Kingdom entered ; and the view of European law in this regard has in no wise been modified to accommodate traditional United Kingdom notions of sovereignty . |
| 8 | In fact , he believes that the formation of C&P has in the event been a powerful factor in enabling research to be rationalized throughout the whole ICI Group . |
| 9 | Since normal practice is for a member to be issued with paid-up shares , the member 's liability is limited to the extent that the shares which he or she has in the company are rendered valueless . |
| 10 | The implication is that , to solve some kinds of problem , an animal must know that something is the case , and not merely that a given action or sequence of actions has in the past been reinforced . |
| 11 | Attention has in the past been drawn to Attali 's use of private planes and £280,000 outlay on office chairs , including over 100 white leather ones for the London top brass . |
| 12 | This is not just legal nicety — Highlander has in the past been the victim of terrorist attacks , a fact which had led to difficulty in enabling Highlander to obtain a satisfactory insurance cover on the property . |
| 13 | Under LMS it is theoretically possible for primary schools to improve PTR by diverting money which has in the past been used for building maintenance and classroom materials to employing additional teachers . |
| 14 | It has often been pointed out , and in my view with justice , that the school curriculum has in the past been overwhelmingly in the power of the universities . |
| 15 | It has in the past been notorious that a pupil in an English school , having learned French for seven years , and having even passed at grade A at A level , may yet be unable to utter more than a few halting sentences , and be hardly able to follow a simple conversation with a native speaker . |
| 16 | In science , for example , the earth science component ( attainment targets 9 and 16 , with aspects of attainment targets 5 , 6 , 7 and 8 ) includes much that has in the past been described as geography , while the materials component ( ATs 6–8 ) includes a great deal that has conventionally been regarded as technology . |
| 17 | The range was designed in the USA under the watchful eye of Chris Kelley , the director of Artist Relations for Hoshino and who has in the past been responsible for such marriages as Joe Satriani and Steve Vai with their custom Ibanez guitars . |
| 18 | With over 250 photos , some of which are extremely rare , backed up with meticulous research based on official war records and eye-witness accounts , this book is a fitting tribute to an area of World War Two that has in the past been overlooked in terms of its importance . |
| 19 | Rabbit admits that its support of Accent has in the past been minimal — now the firm will put all its strength behind its partner , and has appointed a Mr Helmut Weissenbach in Munich to co-ordinate the various European distribution outlets . |
| 20 | And the new structure erm moves towards erm team working across the advice centre composes of three teams er and also , takes on the critical self managing team so that erm in terms of the this work and technical support that er , has in the past been offered by a team leader , er , team leader and advice centre manager that will be , in the future will be offered by a senior member of staff erm , for each other and for less experienced staff . |
| 21 | But there is another 7 million tonnes , of equivalent calorific value , in the straw of the wheat and barley which has in the past been burnt in the fields after harvest . |
| 22 | There is evidence too that ice near the coast has in the past been thicker , for many coastal islands and mountains carry the scars of glacial movement on their exposed surfaces . |
| 23 | More demonstrably , however , there has in the past been evidence of some feeling in Parliament that the Comptroller and Auditor General should be given the power to audit all public money voted by Parliament , including that voted to nationalized industries . |
| 24 | Conversely , if public ownership has in the past been tried and found wanting , should the government now return these public sector corporations to private ownership ? |
| 25 | The economic history of Byzantium has in the past been examined too much in isolation from the general course of medieval economic history . |
| 26 | Indeed the EC has in the past been more concerned with the question of whether national aid programmes contravened its competition policy rather than whether its competition policy might have any adverse consequences for the regions of member nations . |
| 27 | The best that a practitioner can do is to have regard to the sort of multiplier which has in the past been adopted by judges in similar circumstances to those with which he is concerned . |
| 28 | The greater part of the grant has in the past been to help finance our teacher training . |
| 29 | 274 has in reality occurred , the position of insurers in that field has in the result been prejudiced by legislation the effect of which was far from clear . |
| 30 | In some companies this role has to a degree been formalised through the creation of audit committees made up of non-executives , their function being to review the effectiveness of the company 's auditing procedures and to liaise with the auditors . |