Sentence examples for a thing has been from inspiring English sources

The word Gestalt is used in modern German to mean the way a thing has been "placed," or "put together".

If a thing has been practised for two hundred years by common consent, it will need a strong case for the Fourteenth Amendment to affect it...

[i]f a thing has been practised for two hundred years by common consent, it will need a strong case for the Fourteenth Amendment to affect it...

If a thing has been practised for two hundred years by common consent, it will need a strong case for the Fourteenth Amendment to affect it, * * *.' Jackman v. Rosenbaum Co., 260 U.S. 22, 31, 43 S.Ct. 9, 67 L.Ed. 107.

THE novelist Anatole France once ingenuously offered this advice to fellow writers: "When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple: take it and copy it".

Amazon chided Orwell for his shortsightedness: "[W]hen a thing has been done a certain way for a long time, resisting change can be a reflexive instinct, and the powerful interests of the status quo are hard to move.

Last year, Sarafian obtained permission from Diyarbakir's leadership to commemorate the genocide there — the first time such a thing had been achieved.

The assumption that high oil prices were a transitory thing has been widespread in the economy.

"Such a big thing has been made of the story that [the FA] go further.

In recent years, however, a strange thing has been happening in Nordic countries: they've been getting more unequal.

A strange thing has been happening to the anti-choice movement.