Example sentences of "has be a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been a parallel argument about the lax stock-taking procedures for plutonium . |
| 2 | Rather it points to the fact that there has been a subtle change in the composition of the teaching force . |
| 3 | Self taught , Albert , who is a relative of George Barron , of BBC TV 's Beechgrove Garden fame , has been tending the gardens for 16 years and has been a consistent winner in the gardens competition over the years . |
| 4 | More generally , MITI has been a consistent promoter of recession cartels which would facilitate an ‘ orderly ’ reduction in excess capacity . |
| 5 | Late-night scheduling has been a consistent feature of lesbian and gay programming , exploiting the gay audience 's motivation to watch these programmes while keeping them on the edges of broadcasting . |
| 6 | The Leader of the Opposition claims that he has been a consistent supporter of the Common Market for years , but everyone knows that he was a consistent and bitter opponent of it for many years . |
| 7 | Since then ‘ Charity Golf ’ has been a consistent element in the Ladies ' calendar . |
| 8 | There has been a consistent increase in the number of well qualified applicants of about 30% to the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine , and we are able to admit only one in 18 applicants . |
| 9 | The regular CBI surveys and the regular Department of Employment labour force survey show that over the 1980s — this is the answer to the hon. Member for Newport , East ( Mr. Hughes ) — there has been a consistent increase in employers ' commitment to training , even in this current recession . |
| 10 | He has been a consistent advocate of ensuring that the law of the land is adhered to . |
| 11 | There has been a consistent pattern of uninvestigated deaths in custody in Malawi , usually resulting from torture , harsh conditions or denial of medical treatment . |
| 12 | As Table 8 shows , there has been a consistent gap between the earnings of the two groups . |
| 13 | Having said that , his aerial ability has been a consistent source of goals . |
| 14 | That there has been a consistent theme to British economic policy over many years is clear ; how successfully it has been implemented within the EEC is more obscure . |
| 15 | This link between the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf regions has been a consistent theme in Soviet statements . |
| 16 | That has been a consistent record of the Government since 1979 . |
| 17 | The background to these concerns has been a deepening crisis in the capitalist economic system — to which some argue the growth and behaviour of the state sector has itself contributed . |
| 18 | The fact that many prisoners have routinely had to spend long periods in their cells without access to a toilet , having to use chamber pots and queue up to ‘ slop out ’ , has been a potent symbol of the squalor of British prisons . |
| 19 | There has been a political revolution in Paddock Wood in Kent , though it has got marginally less press coverage than the fall of the Berlin Wall or the failed Russian coup . |
| 20 | The chap there said , ‘ I really should n't tell you this , but there has been a political dispute over the spelling of ecu . ’ |
| 21 | From 1958 there was a steady improvement in the quality of Britain 's rivers , but since 1980 there has been a net deterioration of 6 per cent . |
| 22 | Thus there has been a net gain in jobs from the small-firm sector , in the USA at least . |
| 23 | It is clear that despite the package of protective designations and institutions created since 1945 , there has been a net decline in the quality of the Welsh countryside and the wider environment for the reasons given . |
| 24 | There has been a long-term decline in the number of private shareholders since the Second World War , matched by a rise in the importance of the institutional investor ( eg insurance companies and pension funds ) . |
| 25 | A feature of most high density areas is that there has been a long-term decline in population and density since before the Second World War ( Craig 1986 ) . |
| 26 | There has been a serious decline in the number of people qualifying as teachers , down from 25,000 in 1980 to 18,500 in 1988 . |
| 27 | Yet elsewhere in the country there has been a serious decline in the amount of sport in schools . |
| 28 | These data show that there has been a posterior transformation of the trigeminal territory to a facial/vestibuloacoustic identity , and illustrates that retinoic acid induces changes in Hox-B1 expression that lead to the duplication of the r4/5 patterns in r2/3 without changing the normal r4/5 domains . |
| 29 | But his work has been a spectacular casualty of the realignment of the contemporary art market , aggravated by disputes about the ownership of his estate ( see The Art Newspaper No.19 , June 1992 , p.20 ) and concern over forgeries . |
| 30 | Boon 's run-gathering in this series — he is only the fifth Australian after Don Bradman , Kim Hughes , Bob Simpson and Border to score more than 500 in a series against India — has been a spectacular highlight in a summer of relatively poor returns from a supposedly top-flight batting line-up . |