Example sentences of "have [been] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police think it could 've been just a dirty night out . |
| 2 | Er you saw the er saw him five years ago in the navy , now it could 've been just a regular check which every seaman gets or it could be , it could 've been something of a serious nature . |
| 3 | The big push would be diplomatic propaganda screwing the pound sterling on the money markets … mugging the Mother of Parliaments would 've been quite a job . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ That would 've been quite a drive for you all the way to London . |
| 5 | Yeah , that 's the whole thing , we 've gathered all the information now , we may 've been there an hour , hour an a half , maybe two hours depending upon the appointment so you go back to the office and work on a plan of attack . |
| 6 | The reason for the neglect of climatic consideration has been partly the relative youthfulness of the science of urban climatology , and partly the relatively weak communication links that presently exist between climatology and planning . |
| 7 | Our fund-raising has been just a little slower during the current year after the bumper total achieved in 1985 , but nevertheless it has been most gratifying that we continue to receive contributions from so many classes over a very wide area . |
| 8 | Similarly , the evidence of the London Clearing Banks to the same committee stated : ‘ There is certainly no evidence to suggest that the availability of bank finance has been even a remotely significant factor holding investment back . ’ |
| 9 | Taiwan 's economic growth has been probably the world 's fastest over the past two decades . |
| 10 | ‘ She has been here a long time and will be here for even longer , ’ Felipe answered smoothly . |
| 11 | This siter has been here a long time and is part of the area . |
| 12 | The central issue has been why the ‘ magic of plurality ’ should make something unlawful if it is not unlawful when done by one person alone . |
| 13 | Traditionally , he has been rather a mysterious figure with most of the audience seeing only his back . |
| 14 | The upshot of the erm the year of course has been rather a healthy lot of financial ratios . |
| 15 | However , the American evidence suggests that this growing familiarity with APRs has been rather an abstract affair . |
| 16 | Thatcherism has been both a matter of style — combining impatience with much of the status quo and a relentless promotion of new attitudes — and policies . |
| 17 | Firstly , I hope to clarify what spiritual direction is — and what it is not — for it represents a tremendously rich tradition in the church 's history which , by its very nature , has been both a hidden and profound influence in the lives of many . |
| 18 | Arlington Mill , in this picturesque Cotswold village astride the River Coln , has been both a corn and fulling mill in its time . |
| 19 | Decentralisation has been both a means of controlling public sector growth and a way to make public services more politically attractive , responsive and effective . |
| 20 | The ‘ displacement ’ has been both a demographic and a cognitive recentring , a ‘ displacement from cause to effect ’ ( 117/119,118/120,172/174 ) . |
| 21 | Sicily has been both the home and haven of the Mafia because politicians throughout Italy have found it convenient to tolerate , rather than prosecute , its activities . |
| 22 | Serge Moscovici , who has been both the Marx and the Lenin of this revolutionary movement , has advocated a fundamental reorientation of social psychology around the concept of social representations . |
| 23 | There has been both an increase in the total number of households and a decrease in the average household size . |
| 24 | Today , however , the cathedral organist is more likely to be one who has been successively an organ scholar , a university graduate and a sub-organist at a cathedral . |
| 25 | Previously the finance function within the FPCs has been largely a ‘ pay and rations ’ operation of paying to the doctors , dentists , pharmacists and opticians the allowances to which they are entitled in the ‘ Red Book ’ ( DHSS , 1989 ) . |
| 26 | For him this convenience has been largely a negative factor for he thought of America as offering no other comparable diversion ; there were ‘ no beer gardens — no public concerts ’ and the question he asked was ‘ Who wants to sit at home and play bridge every night ? ’ |
| 27 | Its defence has been largely the concern of other powers since the fall of Singapore in 1942 ; and the British independent nuclear deterrent is no more than a phrase , since it is not independent and , as the Falklands crisis of 1982 showed , it does not deter . |
| 28 | In the past , accommodating such users has been largely the province of a small number of individuals . |
| 29 | This has been largely an enterprise of male youth , asserting their own ‘ body politics ’ of the street through rules and rituals of territoriality . |
| 30 | In most other matters , since 1945 , Britain has been effectively a dependent state , whether in peace or in war , and the dominance of British fiction across the world is unmatched by almost everything else , though some might hopefully seek exceptions in education , broadcasting and financial services like marine insurance . |