Example sentences of "has been [adv] [adj] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a man who was leading the campaign for sanctions against South Africa , when that was still a hopeless liberal cause , he has been notably diffident about such things as collective punishment and detention without trial in the Israeli-occupied territories . |
| 2 | BILL CLINTON has been painfully slow with most appointments , but he has moved faster than George Bush did in 1989 to find a chairman for the Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) . |
| 3 | According to their analysis of American industrial confrontations from the 1870s to the 1960s , violence has been most severe on those occasions when employers have tried to ‘ break ’ existing unions , or deny recognition to newly forming ones . |
| 4 | Although this has been particularly influential for many forms of Western Marxism , it also represents a deviation from Marx 's original claim that history is the effect of material conditions rather than of human consciousness . |
| 5 | In that context , what has been particularly difficult for all of us in Scotland to deal with has been the Government 's secrecy . |
| 6 | Implementation of directives has been hopelessly inadequate in some countries , notably Greece and Italy . |
| 7 | Internal migration within Britain has been largely responsible for these trends , with the level of net immigration to the South rising from 24 000 a year in 1971/73 to 45–50 000 a year by the end of the 1970s and rising steadily since 1981 to reach 69 000 in 1985/6 ( figure 8.2 ) . |
| 8 | It is evident — and I have emphasized the fact — that new political ideas have very often been formulated in direct response to the situations confronted by movements , parties and political leaders ; and the political thought of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has been exceptionally fertile in this respect . |
| 9 | But as a master of the ‘ sound bite ’ quote he has been surprisingly unconvincing in this campaign . |
| 10 | Robson Rhodes has been equally uncompromising with some of its former clients . |
| 11 | Since these are being funded from new money ( the National Science Foundation will continue to fund basic research from its existing money ) , the reaction of the Swiss research community has been broadly favourable to these plans for oriented research . |
| 12 | But in any case it has been clearly apparent to all fieldworking anthropologists for at least sixty years that the various kinds of performance which have , in the past , been assigned to the categories " magic " , " religion " , " magico-religious " , are expressions of artistic creativity rather than misguided attempts to control the material world by mechanical means . |
| 13 | This does not imply that there has been fierce opposition — indeed , the vote in favour of the merger has been nearly unanimous at each meeting . |
| 14 | And the Labour Party has been remarkably silent about this lack of trade union affiliation . |
| 15 | It is also true that the religious practice of those who attend vocational schools has been significantly inferior to those who attended catholic secondary schools , at least in the 1970s ( Nic Ghiolla Phadraig 1980 ) . |
| 16 | The hon. Gentleman has been noticeably reticent in this respect in the past . |
| 17 | A pilot scale rig dedicated to the exploration and development of the silver bullet process has been fully operational for some months . |
| 18 | the transport secretary John Macgregor has been totally opposed to that because it would mean nothing changing in effect . |
| 19 | The newly-appointed C E O , Gary who took over at the end of the year when Gill retired has been very involved in these restructuring efforts and has been working very effectively and is on top of the situation , and although three swallows may not make a summer , I can at least tell you that Camco has traded profitably in each of the first three months of nineteen ninety three and now I 'd like to hand you over to Frank , who will talk about the rest of our business . |
| 20 | Now there 's no doubt that groining on the beaches has been very successful in many cases . |
| 21 | The work of the Association of Women of El Salvador ( AMES ) and other women 's organizations in the controlled zones and with refugees has been very impressive in this sense . |
| 22 | Since the war the CIA has been very alarmed at some of the left-wing British governments , many of whose politicians it regards as friends of Moscow . |
| 23 | New Guinea has both such features , whereas Africa has been very stable in this regard , while contact with Laurasian floras has been restricted by desert barriers and this contrasts with the intermingling in other tropical regions . |
| 24 | That argument has been very forceful in some countries for the last three or four decades at least . |
| 25 | The effect on the Sussex landscape of the disappearance of the elm has been very severe in some areas , notably the coastal plain , but the significance for birds is unclear . |
| 26 | The judge has been very forthright in this er saying that er both sides er should er get round the table and try and find some speedy solution to it . |
| 27 | Wife Marguerita said : ‘ This has been very upsetting for both of us . |
| 28 | The economists ' approach to bureaucracy has been very different to that of conventional public administration , with its emphasis on constitutional principles , institutions of control and review , and structural features of public agencies . |
| 29 | The condition of the Northern catholic — nationalist minority has been very different from that of the majority in the South . |
| 30 | ‘ They spent all last winter getting the horse to switch off and he has been more relaxed with each race this season . ’ |