Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adj] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite appointing a succession of managers his only return has been one League Cup triumph . |
| 2 | The Urban Programme has been one policy instrument through which the government has been able , if only at the margins , to influence the position of black people in the major conurbations . |
| 3 | All are back with Parramatta and their father Les has been first grade manager . |
| 4 | has responded to those by , for example , over this year there has been closed circuit television at one of the Park and Rides — I think it 's Thornhill — in consultation with the Police , and the Police have told us that that has reduced the number of crimes that have occurred and we have put |
| 5 | IN THE Collectair office there has been much back correspondence to catch up on . |
| 6 | Amidst such massive coverage there has been little television interest in what ordinary people get out of sport . |
| 7 | Allan Victor Jones , 51 , of Bangor , who has been chief fire officer of Gwynedd since 1989 is awarded the Queen 's Fire Service Medal . |
| 8 | Richard , who started work at the University in 1969 as assistant cook in the halls of residence , has been Assistant Catering Manager since 1973 , based at the Revis Barber and Dennis Bellamy Halls , where his deputy , head cook Ian Wade has been ruling the kitchens for 24 years . |
| 9 | Much of the general comment has been that quality improvement is just common sense and that we have been doing it all of the time anyway . |
| 10 | Similarly , Byers 's ( 1987 ) work in the Mount Everest National Park indicates that there has been less forest removal than envisaged and that shrubs/grassland and forested slopes below 4000 m OD are stable . |
| 11 | In the studies with gastrin and its analogues an often uncontrolled variable has been gastric acid secretion , although the presence of gastric acid is not essential for a colonic response as it is not abolished by total gastrectomy . |
| 12 | Children from Primary 3 upwards do have diaries to keep parents informed if there has been any homework set — but is rarely any until Primary 7 age . |
| 13 | In many cases the consequence has been large scale redundancy , and a reduction in size , or contraction , of the organisation . |
| 14 | Indeed it has been proposed thatany increase in permeability in patients with inflammatory bowel disease results from polymorphonuclear transmigration through the intestinal mucosa . |
| 15 | These centres may attract finance from a variety of sources , mainly local authorities , and there has been some government funding . |
| 16 | Author Salmon Rushdie has been busy Christmas shopping . |
| 17 | Novell has been busy writing application programming interfaces to accommodate object-oriented applications , which , it says , will read and distribute objects as packets ( or images ) across the network . |
| 18 | It has been French State policy over the last twelve years to foster its provincial museums , and in particular to increase the number of contemporary art museums outside Paris ( see The Art Newspaper No. 26 , March 1993 , pp. 8–9 ) . |
| 19 | For over 25 years the department has been pioneering AI teaching . |
| 20 | We must study the gap closely and we must realise that , in many of the homes that have come on to the market , on which there has been significant capital outlay by people moving into the private sector , the costs have escalated because of the massive increase in interest rates . |
| 21 | There is an approximation to this for all of these samples , but clearly there has been considerable bone loss from even the most complete bone assemblages . |
| 22 | Latterly he has been Fast Reactor Director . |
| 23 | At the same time , there has been ready consumer acceptance of two types of credit which have tended to be seen as quite different . |
| 24 | Even in the urban core where there has been massive population loss associated with slum clearance , there were almost as many dwellings in 1981 as there had been in 1961 and , as Table 3.4 shows , the area now has a far higher standard of amenity . |
| 25 | And a key man involved in all these developments has been Australian Rugby Football Union president and chairman , Joe French , who has worked actively , but without recognition , behind the scenes for several years . |
| 26 | who has been Senior Development Officer responsible for the Central Support Unit and co-ordinating the Advanced Courses Development Programme , is undertaking an evaluation of the programme and will be in contact with selected centres in due course . |
| 27 | Physiological measures which have been equated with subjective risk when driving are galvanic skin response ( GSR ) ( e.g. Helander & Söderberg , 1973 — described in Summala , 1976 ; Hulbert , 1957 ; Preston , 1969 ; Taylor , 1964 ) and heart rate ( Rutley & Mace , 1972 ) , both of which are often used as measures of physiological arousal . |
| 28 | Among the issues which they pursued were proposed NIHT rent increases , resettlement grants , poor soundproofing and finishing in their accommodation and the refusal of the NIHT to provide a communal television aerial for Rossville Flats which would enable the tenants to receive Radio Telefis Eireann ( the Irish television network ) . |
| 29 | A third effect which could be added is that business experience would be gained by the local merchant , and thus the society begins to develop a pool of people with such business experience . |
| 30 | What you want is that sugar stuff what they 'll take back to nest . |