Example sentences of "have [adv] been [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Defence and foreign policy have long been bedrock attributes of the nation state , and each European nation has entrenched national attitudes and distinct national interests . |
| 2 | This view is not based on logic but is greatly influenced by the programming to which we have all been subject from day one of our lives . |
| 3 | Murder , drugs , a bombing and shootings have all been part of a saga directly involving members of the family . |
| 4 | ‘ And Rhoda Brocklebank and Roxie Farmer and Shirley Place have all been spending money , ’ said Coffin . |
| 5 | Between 1979 and 1989 the reduction in public-sector employment , extension of private home-ownership ( up from 55 per cent to 65 per cent ) and share-ownership ( up from 7 per cent to 22 per cent ) , increasing scope for private provision of services , and run-down of trade union membership ( down from 54 per cent to 46 per cent of the workforce ) have all been government objectives . |
| 6 | While World Cup matters have only been part of the Board 's committee business this week , the speculation as to whether Welsh reservations would carry weight has been immense . |
| 7 | Independent readers , with their heroic sponsorship of The Garden Venture , have already been part of the quest for a new operatic voice . |
| 8 | One source of recruitment has always been the armed services , not only because their staff have already been security vetted , but also because they are used to carrying out dull repetitive chores and filling out the endless paperwork that forms the major part of any intelligence operation . |
| 9 | They have that particular one because the two little girls wanted to be bridesmaid 's , have just been bridesmaid 's and have these dresses and Anna thought the colour was so pretty , cos she went into Laura Ashley and got one in the sale of last years stock . |
| 10 | Since unguarded and uncensored words have usually been anathema in Russia , he mostly limited his performances to select private gatherings . |
| 11 | The handle of crudely carved oak was about eighteen inches long and might , he thought , have once been part of a heavy walking stick . |
| 12 | That summary of early Texan history is included , not just for general interest , but to illustrate several factors which have always been characteristic of Texan culture , and so have influenced the history of prisons in the state . |
| 13 | It is therefore most unlikely that present-day stigmatized forms have always been stigmatized , or that present-day elite forms have always been elite . |
| 14 | However , such regulatory mechanisms have always been anathema to the newspaper industry . |
| 15 | He says : ‘ There have always been mail orders firms and telephone shopping and , at one stage , we were supposed to be on the verge of TV shopping . |
| 16 | Aston 's Newport Pagnell works is like a room at the Science Museum : on a given day in any given corner , two men will be shaping a bonnet-lid by rocking it through a hand-press ; in another , a third-generation Astonian will be hand-beating an aluminium ( Astons have always been aluminium ) wing . |
| 17 | this season we 'll be cheering louder than ever for our three teams … in the new first division we 've got Oxford United … they 've new owners and new heart after escaping relegation … we 've first division football at the County ground as well … where style and skill have always been swindon town 's hallmarks … this time around they 're hoping for strength too … in division three Hereford United have been rebuilding … they 're going continental with a player-coach instead of a manager … so for the best season ticket sit down for Central South … . |
| 18 | Here , productive base includes some aspects of services , if they have traditionally been part of the reason for an area as opposed to a consequence of the accumulation of population in some area with a pre-existing rationale . |
| 19 | There have also been pilot programmes in Iowa , USA , New Zealand , and Edinburgh . |
| 20 | There have also been software problems . |
| 21 | There have also been poliomyelitis outbreaks despite high vaccine uptake , which suggests that strategies that rely exclusively on routine administration of OPV are inadequate to achieve global eradication of poliomyelitis by the year 2000 . |
| 22 | This has been a major problem in Kent , Essex , Suffolk , and Norfolk , and most notoriously at Halvergate , where there have also been acidity problems , causing some farmers to have to jet their drains every year . |
| 23 | This may , however , have simply been part of his lifelong preoccupation with correct dress : one friend remarked that his clothes were English , his underclothes American . " |
| 24 | As a consequence , there have been occasions when reports produced at the central point have either been suspect in content or alternatively have failed to meet their deadline . |
| 25 | In practice , most of them have previously been deputy lieutenants . |
| 26 | There have certainly been sea level changes since then , leaving raised beaches at many points along the exposed coasts of both continent and islands . |
| 27 | I have certainly been party to one or two discussions amongst friends , and as part of my work I take groups of young people away on climbing trips , most to very white-dominated areas where the mere appearance of a black face in a pub or at a crag is enough to cause stares and whispers . |
| 28 | But micrometeorites often have a loose texture , which suggests that they have never been part of anything big , heavy and hot . |
| 29 | Most ordinary shareholders have never had a total remuneration package and have never been part of a performance-related bonus scheme . |
| 30 | These lakes have never been landlord lakes — the fishing has always been free for the people . |