Example sentences of "have been [prep] a " in BNC.

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31 Additional proposals include setting up an emergency fund to save buildings or sites for the nation and another for historic gardens ( two proposals which have met with approval ) , and cutting back on conservation grants , principally repair grants made to local authorities , amounting to £9.5 million annually , half of which has been on a pound-for-pound basis .
32 Although it is less the case now than in the past , the longer a person has been on a particular committee the greater the likelihood that he or she will eventually succeed either to its chair or to the senior minority party position .
33 Funding for research of this kind has been on a scale not approached by any other area of sociological enquiry .
34 Despite the fact that unvented hot water cylinders often come with all the components pre-fitted to the hot water cylinder , the Building Regulations require the use of an ‘ Approved Installer ’ — which means someone who has been on a proper training course .
35 The sales centre has been on a very steep learning curve as to the needs of individual appointed representatives .
36 The HCIMA bibliography has been established over nearly 10 years , and the past seven years has been on a computer database .
37 The current of three million to grow or rights of access er to the and experience to date has suggested that , that has been on a voluntary necessarily popular on , on a .
38 Over the past few weeks , their National Team has been on a British Tour and wherever they play , the house is packed .
39 Mansell has been on a flying visit to the Williams HQ at Didcot in Oxfordshire where he talked about his life and challenges .
40 Lou Macari 's been called … his football life … has been on a roller coaster these past few seasons … hitting the heights at Swindon … crashing into the law courts … running around Wembley with the cup …
41 in Gloucester navigator Ade Jeffries has been on a crash course to lose the fat and get fit …
42 All this about Descartes 's doctrine that mind and matter are two causally-related substances , about the manna → gripings model for talk about the objects of perception , and about the empiricist doctrine about how language is meaningful , has been with a view to understanding why Locke could not acknowledge the existence of the epistemic appearances of objects .
43 Community care has disappointed not just because social work — or other professional time — has been at a premium , but because services have been lacking .
44 Nor was anything said about the fact that federal support of civilian R&D has been at a ground-losing $14 000 million for the past three years — down by $3000 million since Reagan took office .
45 It is a skill I have honed on a host of beautiful staircases and , before tonight 's professional debut , my most singular success has been at a large hotel in Sloane Street where we just chose Miss London.The marble stairs to the entrance hall are just too perfect to ignore , with only a couple of people chatting on the right halfway down.I take the left hand course and soar down and round the gentle curve in nothing short of majestic style , allowing myself the luxury of a smile and a brief wave to the startled pair as I rattle by .
46 ‘ Mine never has been at a Channel port .
47 We 're light years behind some of those areas where the spending has been at a much higher level .
48 The cat , which is only 4 months old has been at a Veterinary Hospital since the attack .
49 103 youths were arrested in the first four weeks , but there are porblems , sometimes in radio communications and it has been at a cost .
50 Shipbuilding work at the Scotstoun yard has been at a standstill for a fortnight since pay negotiations broke down .
51 In distinction to this , morality , for the Victorians and increasingly for the generations that have come after , has been to a significant degree organised around concepts of sexuality , so that even when moral attitudes were authoritarian and restrictive , as the dominant notions were for much of the nineteenth century , sexuality had a vigorous presence .
52 Anyone who has been to a concert by Fine Arts Brass will know the group combines virtuosity with versatility , playing music of all styles with equal flair and placing the emphasis very much on entertainment .
53 French structuralism , applied as it has been to a wide range of intellectual disciplines , is a realization of Saussure 's dream of a general science of signs — semiology .
54 The only " reason " given by Anderson — " I changed my mind " ( p. 87 ) — clearly violates the maxim of quantity in providing too little information , and his excuse , that he " did n't realize it mattered " , violates the maxim of quality because , being a Cambridge don who has been to a number of overseas conferences , he will be well aware of the procedures involved .
55 Erm really this has been to a large extent I think a parish council initiative and I 'm sure all the members of this council are enthusiastic supporters of grassroots democracy in the role of parish councils .
56 And glory in the 1,000 Guineas may well be a lot more than just a warming winter thought because Dead Certain beat as competitive a field as there has been for a juvenile filly 's race for many years .
57 I 'm not one to do double somersaults — I 'm not that acrobatic — but he 's one of the best in the country and has been for a long time .
58 One of the important trends in recent years initiated in this country by John Hodgson ( 1972 , 1973 , 1975 ) has been for a number of drama specialists to undertake an editorial role in an attempt to raise the standard of literature on our subject .
59 No , the fact remains that malaria is on the increase and has been for a number of years now .
60 It expects a loss for the first quarter and the loss will be substantially larger than analyst estimates — the average forecast has been for a loss of two cents a share on turnover of $565m — a figure the company says is way too high .
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