Sentence examples for has been formal from inspiring English sources

"There has been formal communication," she said.

From the beginning, in 1944, his portraiture has been formal, precise, and unfailingly elegant.

The conservative movement has grown smirking, clannish, quarrelsome; Romney has been formal, chiding, and pained.

But they should know that the surest route to advancement (in what they might contemptuously refer to as the "old paradigm") has been formal training.

Palestinian Authority officials said the kidnappers of Alan Johnston, the BBC correspondent in Gaza who was abducted March 12, have made specific but unacceptable demands, the first time there has been formal contact.

All interested parties must be notified immediately of any changes that have taken place affecting land parcels, for example where there has been formal subdivision.

"I know of the name Fonix, but I cannot say if there have been formal contacts -- we have got a great number of faxes," Mr. Vanstaen said.

"All of the interviews I have been to have been formal - close to a job interview in the real world I would say," he says.

I assumed that meant it had been formal, and now it had changed to casual.

All the authors have contributed to data collection, and they have been formal assessors as well in the relevant modules (Workplace Based Assessments of the Medical Students).

There has been no formal debrief.