Example sentences of "have been [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been no such softening in the rest of the world , which the west has now taken under its protective tutelage . |
| 2 | However , there has been no such disengagement , let alone direct argument against such texts in general . |
| 3 | State if there has been no such contract . |
| 4 | To the best of my knowledge , there has been no such request by British Rail . |
| 5 | For US T-bonds the situation looked a little more optimistic for a couple of years after the launch , but the volume of contracts traded has fallen steeply since 1988 although there has been no such decline in their home base on the CBoT , and despite the fact that LIFFE invested much effort in internationalising this contract — establishing a fungible link with the Sydney Futures Exchange ( SFE ) in 1986 to allow global trading in US T-bonds for 19 hours a day , and reaching an understanding with the CBoT for fungible contracts in the US T-bond and the UK Long Gilt . |
| 6 | There has been no such rethink for the changes planned in civil legal aid in court , which was granted in more than 23,000 cases in 1991/92 . |
| 7 | The efforts — and prison sentences — of the unofficial peace movement had redeemed the similarly contaminated word peace , but ‘ in my country , for ages now , socialism has been no more than an incantation that should be avoided if one does not wish to appear suspect . ’ |
| 8 | The two year ban which he received has been no more than a minor inconvenience to him . |
| 9 | The ‘ masculine ’ goal of moral autonomy , then , has been no more in woman 's grasp than it was within the grasp of the Stoic slave of ancient times . |
| 10 | The account is and has been no more than a conduit , the defendant holding its funds with a Scottish bank in Glasgow . |
| 11 | Historically , resource allocation has been the prime objective ( eg in relation to fisheries ) and environmental protection has been no more than a secondary objective . |
| 12 | The Czechoslovak Finance Minister Vaclav Klaus declared : " So far the role of the EBRD in our part of the world has been no more than marginal . " |
| 13 | The strongest indication we have had of an MBO here has been no more than vague rumours . ’ |
| 14 | Maybe that 's one reason why this show has been a few years in the making . |
| 15 | This seems to be pitching things a good deal too high , but the current London Film Festival , which continues until Sunday , tends to confirm the impression that 1989 has been a less than vintage year for the movies . |
| 16 | A major feature in UK user education ( particularly in the last five years ) has been the many hundreds of thousands of pounds spent on research and development . |
| 17 | The result has been the same each time . |
| 18 | If the English handicapper appears to have been lenient with Barnbrook Again , the Irish handicapper has been the same with Morley Street . |
| 19 | The sum has been the same since 1983 , when the Government launched its Enterprise Allowance Scheme — better known in some circles as the Enterprise Allowance Scam or Enquiring Artists ' Support . |
| 20 | The theoretical object ‘ profession ’ has been the same as for conservative theorists . |
| 21 | The pattern has been the same for one Big Idea after another . |
| 22 | Some newcomers have been indifferent to the sensibilities of the local population ; others , as we shall see , have been oversensitive to what they believe the needs of the village to be-In each case the effect has been the same : members of the former occupational community , faced with an invasion of ‘ their ’ village by outsiders , have tended to retreat in upon themselves and form a community within a community , cutting themselves off from the separate world of the newcomers . |
| 23 | But since then our calendar year has been the same as the solar year . |
| 24 | I know many of the other tournament professionals will be feeling the same apprehensions and anxieties as myself before the circus begins , but it always has been the same from day one , and believe me it does n't get any easier . |
| 25 | I suppose if I 'd been a few years older , I would have replied , ‘ Is n't that the only way to treat it ? ’ |
| 26 | When we were there Stan was with us and he 'd been a few times to Brussels to with the Labour Party and , and he said oh it 's great ! |
| 27 | He 'd been no more than another face around the yard on the two or three occasions that she 'd been by , no reason that he should have made any lasting impression on her at all . |
| 28 | If there 'd been the least sign of magical activity we 'd know about it . ’ |
| 29 | He 'd covered her over with a coat and taken her few possessions inside , and she 'd slept on ; she 'd been the same way for the last couple of hours of the journey , ever since they 'd made their final stop at a twenty-four hour garage so that he could fill the Zodiac 's tank and buy some tape for a running repair to the headlamp that he 'd broken when , lights doused to escape notice , he 'd clipped the corner of the garage block on their way out of the parking area . |
| 30 | Michael , I 've had to work very , very exact my lad and these things I 'd got the sliding gages and put them on and they 'd been the same at the front as they have at the back and that 's the thickness as well . |