Example sentences of "[noun] has [been] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The staple crop has for centuries been rice , and wet-rice agriculture has been of crucial significance in the evolution of Japanese society . |
| 2 | Last month Amnesty International called for all charges against him to be withdrawn and concluded : ‘ At every stage the behaviour of the authorities has been in open defiance of the authority of the courts and the rule of law . ’ |
| 3 | One of the Moths now at Mandevelle has been on static display in a motor museum for years , and is now almost ready to leap into the air again ; an excellent idea . |
| 4 | Golding 's own fictional worlds , unlike Amis 's or Murdoch 's , have tended to be enclosed , which may be natural to one whose early experience has been in naval life and schoolteaching ; and unlike theirs , powerfully concerned with the perils of code-breaking and a sense of shame . |
| 5 | Wilko said : ‘ David has been in tremendous form in the early games and we can only hope the trouble clears up by Saturday . ’ |
| 6 | MIND has been of enormous importance in widening understanding of the social aspects of the problem of mental disorder and stimulating progressive work in this held . |
| 7 | The colt has been in constant demand for the 2,000 Guineas and is a 12–1 chance . |
| 8 | The British Library Research and Development Department , which , along with the National Foundation for Educational Research in England and Wales and the Schools Council , has funded most of this research , is aware of that problem , and using a standing committee called the Discussion Group on User Education in Schools , it is endeavouring to bring the research into general practice , and even to extend the influence of the work into other levels of education , eg primary schools ( the concentration has been on secondary education so far ) . |
| 9 | Ken has been into western styling since he was a child . |
| 10 | Their crushing electoral defeat of 1983 in conjunction with the realisation that their share of the popular vote has been in steady decline since 1951 has , however , forced a reassessment . |
| 11 | However the research has been of variable quality , there are conflicting findings , and the full implications for practice remain unclear . |
| 12 | Despite these difficulties , Foucault 's work has been of considerable influence in recent explorations of sexuality , and there are two areas which seem of particular significance . |
| 13 | The distinction between blending inheritance and particulate inheritance has been of great importance in the history of evolutionary ideas . |
| 14 | This issue has been of particular importance within central government in recent years as the traditional task of the civil service — that of offering objective , impartial advice — has come under scrutiny . |
| 15 | Just how successful the campaign has been in straight money terms ( costs per account opened ) is unclear but the advertising is undoubtedly asking to have a different relationship with the viewer than the more passive tradition of the medium . |
| 16 | Barnes has been in constant contact with England boss Taylor during his rehabilitation . |
| 17 | Contract law has been of major importance in underpinning the market , although other areas of law have also had a bearing . |
| 18 | Indeed , their use of common law has been of especial importance in outlining and protecting certain rights of the individual . |
| 19 | One important application for Markov models has been in automatic speech recognition ( ASR ) in which a speech signal is modelled as a probabilistic function of a ( hidden ) Markov chain . |
| 20 | Massett has been in great form all season , a fact not lost on his boss Joe Gibiliru . |
| 21 | It has opened a preliminary EOS Europe office and its EOS Korea has been in full operation for six months . |
| 22 | It has a preliminary EOS Europe office and EOS Korea has been in full operation for six months . |
| 23 | How texts achieve their effects has been of particular significance in the teaching of literature , including drama . |
| 24 | Mr Steisel says City Hall has been in close contact with it from the start . |
| 25 | The Jamaican born bowler has been in superb form in the Cheltenham Festival … on Wednesday his bowling against Essex could swing the match . |
| 26 | Even in countries where housing standards have improved immeasurably , and the promotion of safety in the home has been of long-standing concern , the problem of accidents is one of some magnitude . |
| 27 | Mary says now : ‘ Accessing my past lives has been of great benefit and I 'm sure that if I 'd gone to an ordinary therapist , nothing would have been sorted out . ’ |
| 28 | The King of the Tipsters has been in unstoppable form since he struck with another 4-1 shot , Pursuit Of Love , at Doncaster last week . |
| 29 | There is , however , a difference between imposing liability where the company has collapsed and it emerges that a director has been in total dereliction of duty or something close to it , and using the law to promote managerial dynamism . |
| 30 | The growth of labour-only sub-contracting has been of mutual benefit to both employers and employees . |