Example sentences of "[num] has [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one responsible for putting together the JP233 since July 1985 has been Royal Ordnance 's Glascoed site : 1,000 acres of low-lying ground , with an obliging screen of hills on every side , deep in the countryside of mid-Gwent . |
| 2 | Meeting so many of you at our super readers ' events is also a terrific plus and 1991 has been hectic from beginning to end , thanks to Frances Barnes and her team , who , together with the hard-working Good Housekeeping Institute , arrange all our special reader occasions . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The sums involved are enormous : 70 per cent of the total growth in the nation 's wealth since 1979 has been due to the rise in value of the housing stock . |
| 5 | The cultural and ideological influence of the Conservative government since 1979 has been considerable , articulated most clearly in the utterances of Mrs Thatcher . |
| 6 | Despite the recession , support for the Top 100 has been heartening . |
| 7 | Evolution of public transport and traffic planning policies in West German cities since 1960 has been subject to continuing scrutiny . |
| 8 | Ball , who joined the club in 1960 has been involved with coaching duties since 1983 . |
| 9 | A more significant change has been the separation of sales of ITV1 and Channel 4 : Channel 4 has been responsible for its own sales from January 1993 , and this has introduced the first genuinely competitive element into national commercial TV . |
| 10 | The effect of publishing a complete catalogue at the end of 1992 has been dramatic , with December 1992 sales up by 65% ; January 1993 up by 10% and February up by 33% . |
| 11 | 1992 has been tough . |
| 12 | The British policy stance since 1962 has been sceptical of space in general , and of its economic viability in particular . |
| 13 | Of the ten copies sold at auction in the last eighty years , only one has been perfect . |
| 14 | My career since 1982 has been remarkable for the number of men who have harboured exactly those prejudices that Smith speaks of — that is , that you ca n't do science and medicine and have children . |
| 15 | Dr Helen Muir has since 1977 been Director ofthe Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology and since 1982 has been Scientific Trustee of the Wellcome Trust . |
| 16 | Althusser 's rereading of Marx can thus be as usefully considered in the context of theories of the history of science as of structuralism ; a certain conflation between the two has been possible because both were opposed to humanistic and phenomenological theories of knowledge in general and to historicism in particular . |
| 17 | The M-Forty has been open for nearly three years , yet its first service area will not open until nineteen ninety four . |
| 18 | Penelope Lord ( Mrs Baines ) since 1988 has been Principal Clinical Psychologist with the North Devon Health Authority , based in Barnstaple . |
| 19 | Christmas Day 1988 has been delightful if unremarkable and we snuggle down after pigging out on room service and a floor picnic of the remaining Marks and Spencer goodies . |
| 20 | The weakening of trade union power in the 1980s has been due to the interaction of government legislation , the rise in unemployment , and technological change . |
| 21 | Quite unexpectedly , the 1980s has been different . |
| 22 | As in previous years the response to the ‘ prisoners of Conscience ’ programmes shown on the BBC in November/December 1990 has been tremendous and effective , and we are still answering 10 enquiries a week about prisoners . |
| 23 | The shift in winds as the international economy moved from the extravagant eighties to the uncharted nineties has been evident for sometime but only the master helmsman could have kept afloat until now . |