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

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1 So our National Anthem has been about a bit , particularly when you think that it came , probably came from , or was used in , erm a piece of music simply by Haydn .
2 So as I say , ours has been about a bit , it 's been borrowed by various people .
3 He has been under a lot of pressure and he came out and played superbly . ’
4 Professor Brighouse has no idea why Mr Patten singled him out for attack , but says the Secretary of State has been under a lot of pressure
5 I 'm very hopeful because er , Vietnam since nineteen eighty six has been under a process of economic and political reform , and they have released er a large amount of prisoners over this time , and there are still a number of prisoners , such as poets er religious people that are still in prison , who are hoping that , with their renewed effort and attention from the media , this 'll er be changed .
6 She has been through a marriage , a divorce , and a serious love affair ; learnt Russian , written regularly for a local paper and taught a young child disabled by a stroke to read again .
7 Mr Whinnett said : ‘ I am not a psychiatrist , but if someone has been through a traumatic experience I have to consider that it could happen .
8 He added : ‘ If anyone has been through a traumatic experience , it takes a long time to unwind .
9 A spokeswoman there said last night : ‘ She has been through a terrible ordeal .
10 Another means of keeping contemporary teachers better informed and less parochial in outlook has been through a range of central and local government books and reports .
11 Rather hoary for a start-up , Mentalix has been through a couple of iterations beginning as a consultant and going on to develop scanner interfaces for the old Apollo workstation .
12 Next Computer Inc , which has been through a tidy sum already , has gotten further financing : this time a $55m credit line from Canon Inc and another $10m from Steve Jobs himself — both are former investors already .
13 A 32 year old manager may be full of vigour , enthusiasm and malleable but a 52 year old manager has been through a couple of recessions , knows the ropes and cap pull a few more rabbits out of the hat .
14 That poor girl has been through a terrible ordeal , and if I know anything of gipsies , it 's not over for her yet . ’
15 Everyone in the Administration Centre has been through a very steep learning curve .
16 Ian Gilmour , deputy social work director , said : ‘ He has been through a very bewildering experience in the past 36 hours , and he is not aware of all that has happened , including the tragedy of his mother 's death . ’
17 John has been without a father for one year ( line 3 ) .
18 Since late 1989 , when Steinlager 's three-year contract was not renewed , U.S. rugby has been without a principal sponsor .
19 The CFTC has been without a chairman since January , when Wendy Gramm left .
20 Dataquest Corp , which has been without a president for some months , has recruited Judith Hamilton for the job : she was formerly a senior vice president and general manager at Locus Computing Corp .
21 Middleton-St-George , near Darlington , has been without a rector since Martin King left last summer to become rural dean of Sedgefield .
22 The class has been without a regular teacher for eight weeks and now parents are demanding extra help .
23 Typically the means of issuing commands using this system has been via a window-icon-mouse-pop-up menu ( WIMP ) display , where the mouse is used to point at icons or menus in windows ( which are subsets of the screen working area ) .
24 While human evolution has oriented around the use of hand and eye , and developed down a highly visual and linear path , the dolphin mind has been on a very different track — acoustic , non-linear and non-manipulative .
25 In twenty-four hours she has been on a whistle-stop tour of three countries .
26 However , the emphasis in LMS training has been on a whole-school approach , with governors , teachers , office staff , cleaners , caretakers , technicians , ancillary staff and LEA representatives working together for a full day in a particular school .
27 But since that time British manufacturing has been on a strengthening long-term trend . ’
28 The 23-year-old has been on a weekly contract since last season , but emerged as a leading figure following the injury to Paul Elliott .
29 The 59-year-old , who has been on a hectic 10,000-mile round trip to Buenos Aires , said : ‘ I 've only just woken up and my only plans now are to go to bed . ’
30 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 .
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