Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] been [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paralleling this has been increasing acceptance of artificial insemination by donor although little is known of how the private citizen and the community at large view this , in vitro fertilisation and other similar medical techniques . |
| 2 | This has been one reason for the increasing prominence of work groups at local level often demanding greater autonomy and a more active role in policy formulation than that provided by the official union structure . |
| 3 | Winter wheats are slightly backward because of cold weather , but the benefit of this has been disease-free crops with good root development . |
| 4 | After the trial Det Chief Supt Cooper said : ‘ I am entirely satisfied with the prosecution case and the trial ; this has been English justice at its best . ’ |
| 5 | Coupled to this has been careful control over costs . |
| 6 | To celebrate Britain 's rich heritage of mazes , 1991 has been designated Year of the Maze — a venture backed by the English Tourist Board and the Maze Society . |
| 7 | The GCC six had been interested parties from the very beginning . |
| 8 | This is nowhere more so than in West Germany , where some 800 pedestrianised areas exist with a mean size of 2,500 metres.So widespread has been this conversion of former car streets that the city centres of large German cities are effectively completely given over to foot traffic.36 Britain has been very much slower to recognise the benefits that pedestrianisation can bring . |
| 9 | Furthermore , an additional factor is likely to have been British support for Bridei , king of the Picts , as the son of Bili , former king of Strathclyde . |
| 10 | I remember once we was called out on the actual called out for actual sighting of s there was supposed to have been some activity over er Bentley so we was all called out and the assembly point was at Tolbertstead 's works in Green Lane and we assembled er in the , at Tolberstead 's and then we was sent out as search groups er from there right across Bentley . |
| 11 | These had been regular church-goers in the Caribbean but had not felt at home in the more restrained worship of the British churches , and some had felt cold-shouldered by the white members . |
| 12 | Although planning has a number of wider social implications for rural areas , many of these have been unintentional side-effects of physical planning policies . |
| 13 | 1992 has been another year of fruitful cooperation with TRANSAID . |
| 14 | 1992 has been another year in which we have had to work hard to live within our means . |
| 15 | Judging from the ensembles in which their names appear , the instruments they are listed as playing in other ballet livrets , and the inventories of instruments that some of the royal wind players had in their possession at their deaths , they must all have been versatile performers on several instruments . |
| 16 | The company preferred to invest in well trained staff rather than cut overheads to the bone , and many have been 20 years in the trade . |
| 17 | Dr Helen Muir has since 1977 been Director ofthe Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology and since 1982 has been Scientific Trustee of the Wellcome Trust . |
| 18 | Now that had been one hell of a scrap . |
| 19 | And the Princess Joanna 's marriage to David Stewart was to be declared null and void , since both had been mere infants at its celebration , and the princess free to marry whomsoever her royal brother selected , Balliol himself being glad and privileged to wed her if this was his Lord Edward 's will and choice . |
| 20 | Both had been presidential bodyguards with the Reagan administration but neither of them had ever had to draw his gun in anger . |
| 21 | The 1980s have been bad years for lone mothers , as for so many others . |