Example sentences of "has [adv] been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the Town and Country Planning Act of 1947 the granting of planning permission for rural housing has arguably been concerned with the visual quality of the countryside rather than with alleviating problems of housing need . |
| 2 | When ivy is seen growing throughout the crown of a dying tree it has rarely been responsible for the tree 's decline but has taken advantage of the crown which now lets through enough light for the ivy to grow away . |
| 3 | Having successfully struck out on his own in 1962 , he has since been involved with the South East London Society , and has been its treasurer for the past two years . |
| 4 | Lorraine did her doctorate work in the Department of Geography and has since been involved in the Department of Environmental Health and Housing on designing a hazard index for litter ( sponsored by the Tidy Britain Group ) . |
| 5 | The result was that they received both a big two-year increase and a pay review body which has since been responsible for a further substantial increase in their salaries . |
| 6 | As an electronic medium using the airwaves , TV has necessarily been subject to governmental and inter-governmental controls on the frequencies that may be used and the coverage allowed to each transmitter . |
| 7 | The example pictured has obviously been successful in its spore dispersal — there 's no black jelly left , so all the spores have gone . |
| 8 | You have the score in your mind — you once said you do n't need a tape or a score to oversee in your mind the whole of Tristan — and this has obviously been true of other great conductors . |
| 9 | Thus , it has hitherto been appropriate for the professional partnership where limited liability is forbidden . |
| 10 | Due to the preoccupation of investigators with the issue of hemispheric asymmetry this most important problem has hitherto been immune from serious experimental attack . |
| 11 | The Cabinet , appointed by the President , has hitherto been subordinate to the UNIP central committee . |
| 12 | It has long been one of the curiosities of our political history that the previous all-time record was set by a party that actually lost the election , Clement Attlee 's Labour Party in 1951 . |
| 13 | This has long been one of my favourite Schnittke pieces , for its Russian-accented dodecaphony-on-stilts , for the post-Holocaust numbness of its third movement , and most of all for the unholy alliances of its finale , where Webern seems to be jiving to West Side Story and Shostakovich meets Vivaldi for a deadly serious jam session . |
| 14 | Edinburgh has long been one of the pre-eminent centres of linguistics in Britain . |
| 15 | Alan Hingston , Executive Director of IDB 's Marketing Development Division , said : ‘ Scandinavia has long been one of IDB 's target regions and business for Northern Ireland companies has developed steadily over the past decade . |
| 16 | Ambonnay has long been famous for its production of still red wines . |
| 17 | Having come to the village with certain expectations they may only see what they expect to find and , since the local working population has long been used to avoiding overt conflict in the face of those who have the capacity to create trouble for them , the superficial calm of village life may remain . |
| 18 | Wall Street has long been bored with the US budget deficit . |
| 19 | He has long been involved in teaching but how does he feel about music education in schools today ? |
| 20 | As a result of investigating unsolved problems in biology , including how a seed or egg can contain the essence which grows into the new individual member of the same species , he postulated ( something which has long been familiar to those with a spiritual or esoteric background ) the existence of what must , by implication , be a non-physical mould or pattern , what he calls a ‘ morphogenetic field ’ , which survives the death of the physical form , and which shapes the individual tree , animal and flower of each species , just as the individual field around a magnet can create a pattern in a scatter of iron filings . |
| 21 | The South African economy has long been dependent on minerals , especially gold . |
| 22 | NCR Corp has long been interested in offering a high degree of fault-tolerance on its computers , and its final line of mainframes , the 9800s , were claimed to be fault-tolerant . |
| 23 | Job evaluation has long been popular in the private sector as a way of formally assessing the relative value of different jobs — and it is frequently used as a basis for deciding pay . |
| 24 | Gairloch has long been renowned as a holiday resort of rare distinction , Victorian visitors regularly patronising the large hotel overlooking the bay and enjoying the quiet seclusion of this favoured backwater . |
| 25 | A small , mountainous country with a population of under three million people , it has long been free from colonial domination . |
| 26 | Prof Wynne Godley , of Cambridge University , who has long been pessimistic about the economy 's future , expects 3.4 million unemployed by the end of this year and 3.6 million by the end of 1994 . |
| 27 | Prof Wynne Godley , of Cambridge University , who has long been pessimistic about the economy 's future , expects 3.4 million unemployed by the end of this year and 3.6 million by the end of 1994 . |
| 28 | But in fairness to Bunce , who plays for Auckland , he has long been resident in New Zealand and had no thoughts of international rugby until approached by Western Samoa , whose 26-strong World Cup squad included only one player still living in the country . |
| 29 | The McofS has only been involved with two developments so far ( The Kelvin Hall in Glasgow and the Leisure Centre in Dundee — currently being built ) . |
| 30 | This has only been possible with the help of Bressingham Steam Museum and Cumbria 's Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway . |