Example sentences of "[verb] been [art] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Land is important in Cramlington but there has been no recent radical change in its ownership or development pattern . |
| 2 | A problem that arises in the Timor Gap case is that , although the circumstances of Indonesia 's invasion of East Timor in December 1975 are well known , there has been no authoritative judicial determination of its illegality , or of the legitimacy of Portugal 's claim to be the continuing administering authority . |
| 3 | However , as the National Old People 's Welfare Committee noted ( 1963:6 ) , ‘ Since then there has been no apparent official action to promote the employment of elderly people ’ . |
| 4 | If there has been no solid social formation there in the first place , it follows that the child can very easily be completely out of control at an early age and almost impossible to reclaim . |
| 5 | There has been no systematic nationwide study of the style and effectiveness of constituency-level campaigning in general elections in Britain . |
| 6 | In the past ten years there has been no major new investment in Kenya , a country previously regarded as an oasis of economic success in east Africa . |
| 7 | There are several theories of where and when this occurred , but there has been no direct archaeological evidence . |
| 8 | There has been no significant biological evolution , or change in human DNA , in the last ten thousand years . |
| 9 | To do so , it is necessary to demonstrate that there has been no subsequent inconsistent amendment to the Bill and that the statement has not been subsequently withdrawn or varied . |
| 10 | Its main conclusion is that there has been no measurable radiological effects on the health of local people , and that the only significant problems resulted from psychological factors , notably stress . |
| 11 | The progress , status and success of these tools and methodologies are little known , because there has been no independent comparative evaluation . |
| 12 | Since that date there has been no demonstrable genetic progress in the British Friesian , maintains Prof King , whereas a lot of progress has been made in Norway . |
| 13 | Yet there still remains Peter Golding 's interesting finding : in the past ten years ( through such surveys as have been carried out , which are not many and with no great scientific basis ) , there has been a consistent public appreciation of social work , even though the public has equally consistently held social workers in low esteem , below teachers , doctors , and nurses . |
| 14 | In the USA , in national opinion polls conducted since Chernobyl , there has been a consistent two-to-one margin of opposition over support for new construction of nuclear power stations . |
| 15 | Some observers went further and criticised him for seemingly assuming that progress from civil through political to social rights has been a painless historical process . |
| 16 | One obstacle has been the obsessive discretion of their methods of operation , so appropriately reflecting the imperial mystique which inspired them ; another has been a certain scholarly reluctance to welcome the suggestion that this informal study group composed of intellectuals and men of affairs , who almost never held elective office , and who indeed generally despised it , exercised any significant influence at all . |
| 17 | We can not go so far as that ; and I lay it down as fact that there never has been a real complete sceptic . |
| 18 | Milton has suggested then that the extreme diversity of plant foods in tropical forests and the way in which they are distributed there in space and time has been a major selective force in the development of advanced cerebral complexity in certain higher primates . |
| 19 | In particular , while the broad move towards smaller , more powerful pocket-sized computing has continued , there has been a major new entrant into the field of handheld information devices . |
| 20 | The high cost of capital in Britain has been a major contributory cause over many years to relatively poor investment levels and low productivity in comparison to many of her competitors . |
| 21 | Over the past few decades , in particular , in structuralist anthropology , psychoanalysis , and Marxist theory , there has been a major theoretical effort to challenge the naturalness of the ‘ unitary subject ’ in social theory , to see the individual as a product of social forces , an ‘ ensemble of social relations ’ , rather than as a simple natural unity . |
| 22 | It 's absolutely massive , yes , it 's a national er campaign , so we 've been recruiting people from all kinds of ways ; direct mail , er getting in touch with people who 've done it for us before , er through magazines and so on and the whole thing has been a major logistical undertaking . |
| 23 | This riles the anthropologists because theorizing about the rules governing mating between close kin has been a major anthropological preoccupation for well over a century . |
| 24 | It is now clear to Earth scientists that the extent of ocean water and its depth and shallowness , and the way it periodically invades the land and then retreats , has been a major climatic determinant . |
| 25 | ‘ The quality initiative has been a major driving force , ’ John added . |
| 26 | Melrose comes from a strong rugby family with his elder brother Gregg a member of past Parramatta premiership winning teams while younger brother Brian has been a regular first-grade player with both Parramatta and Western Suburbs . |
| 27 | United States defence spending has been a key driving force behind much of the electronics , telecommunications and computer industries . |
| 28 | Although no official statistics are ever provided , there has been a general downward trend in sales from the peak in 1989 to 1991 when potential buyers were uneasy about the economy and the Gulf War . |
| 29 | This type of relief is of great benefit to the retiring director upon the disposal of his shares in the company , providing he has kept a sufficient percentage holding of shares and has been a full-time working director until this point in time . |
| 30 | Indeed , it is the only occasion on which there has been a substantial national strike in support of any industrial group of workers in Britain . |