The phrase "a text has been" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the state or condition of a text that has undergone some action or process.
Example: "A text has been revised multiple times to ensure clarity and coherence."
Alternatives: "a text is" or "a text was".
A text has been released in advance.
An electronic edition can display all versions in ways not possible in books and walk readers through the paths of revision a writer may have taken, or show the way a text has been censored, bowdlerized or adapted.
"We have been told by the COP chair that a text has been prepared by the COP presidency.
Ever since Erasmus, if not before, the favored approach to reconstructing a text has been first to reconstruct the "family tree" (stemma) of manuscripts based on the occurrence of major "mutations" (characteristic errors) [4].
Creating Simple Cloze Exercises Any New York Times article can be converted into a cloze exercise (that is, an exercise in which several words in a text have been removed and replaced with blanks).
Amazon's Kindle platform lets readers see which sections of a text have been underlined most frequently: a frustratingly vacuous feature given what the Kindle platform could achieve, but one that networks its millions of readers.
Mr Chidambaram, like a student taking a highlighter to the quotable bits of a set text, has been picking out the CMP's juicy bits.
The BBC's Kim Ghattas reports that the agreement between the US and Russia on a draft text has been seen as a historic breakthrough, but there are more obstacles before the resolution is passed.
A draft text has been put forward with a final version of the deal expected to be decided upon next week.
A revised text has been reprinted several times.
A proposed text has been published, and it will now be debated and amended by the European Parliament and European Council.
