Example sentences of "[adj] progress has [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both sides have agreed in principle to a referendum on the future of the territory , and the United Nations has been trying to achieve agreement on its details but , despite concessions by Polisario , little progress has been made . |
| 2 | Of the present pilot sites , relatively little progress has been made in terms of collecting outcome information . |
| 3 | Industry is another area where little progress has been made . |
| 4 | Apart from perhaps the use of story grammars [ Mandler & johnson , 1977 ] and the concept of macrostructure formation [ Kintsch & van Dijk , 1983 ] , very little progress has been made towards the implementation of discourse rules in NLP systems . |
| 5 | Relatively little progress has been made in answering these questions . |
| 6 | As you have not even seen your inheritance yet very little progress has been made . ’ |
| 7 | Although there are some countries where little progress has been made , most African nations now have , or are moving towards , multi-party political systems . |
| 8 | However , very little progress has been made in leading children towards conventionally accepted explanations . |
| 9 | Little progress has been made in terms of developing a theory of the disorder which would provide greater understanding of how and why these factors relate to each other . |
| 10 | Such a way of proceeding has much to recommend it , but scant progress has been made in that direction . |
| 11 | Is he aware that that progress has been made not merely because of the skill of the consultants and of the nursing staff but because of the way they work together as a team ? |
| 12 | The development by the Pythagoreans , for instance , of important mathematical theories out of organisations concerned with mystical cosmologies and shamanistic practices is no more an exception to the way in which scientific progress has been made or to the ‘ spirit of enquiry ’ than the fact that many modern scientific achievements arise out of arcane political interests or commercial ethics . |
| 13 | Bernard Unti , vice president of the American Anti-Vivisection Society , is pessimistic about the chances of rolling back the patent decision , but believes some progress has been made . |
| 14 | This goal is still far from fruition but some progress has been made , particularly by groups and organizations which have had limited but specific objectives ( eg the production of teaching media ) or which have functioned within one educational level ( eg academic libraries ) . |
| 15 | Some progress has been made in reducing negative stereotyping . |
| 16 | ‘ I trust some progress has been made in my absence . ’ |
| 17 | Though some progress has been made towards common accounts , differences are unlikely to be ironed out worldwide for decades . |
| 18 | Some progress has been made in this area , since the input to such systems is typically simpler than the text to be processed in MT or IR systems , and the interactive nature of the application allows the system to resolve certain ambiguities by asking the user to rephrase the question . |
| 19 | However , some progress has been made concerning the knowledge acquisition problem : Amsler [ 1982 ] , Calzolari [ 1984 ] , Chodorow [ 1985 ] and Alshawi [ 1988 ] have all demonstrated the use of a machine-readable dictionary in the automatic construction of semantic relations and networks . |
| 20 | Measuring the costs of outputs and outcomes has more recently received greater attention and succeeding chapters will illustrate those areas of the public sector where some progress has been made . |
| 21 | Some progress has been made in recording data on the Polytechnic 's rooms and buildings , and on the teaching space requirements of individual courses . |
| 22 | It is true also that with respect to free trade in some of the more intractable areas ( which happen also in many cases to be of greatest interest to Britain ) some progress has been made . |
| 23 | This has led to waste and inefficiency since the definition of a good hour of work is one that can be charged to the contract rather than one in which some progress has been made . |
| 24 | Until further progress has been made to facilitate the identification of people at risk of schizophrenia , there is not a firm basis for large-scale intervention programmes . |
| 25 | However there is still no sure preventive treatment , although much progress has been made in acne therapy . |
| 26 | In the past 10 years , LTP in the hippocampus has become the dominant model of activity-dependent synaptic plasticity in the mammalian brain , and much progress has been made in elucidating the mechanisms underlying its induction and expression . |
| 27 | I am happy to say that much progress has been made . |
| 28 | Much progress has been made since the days of the Chicago School in terms of understanding the biological and instinctive bases of individual and social behaviour . |
| 29 | Early television cameras were large and the image of poor quality , but much progress has been made in recent years . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , much progress has been made in recent years . |