Example sentences of "[verb] been [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for the first time , therefore , a government keen on deregulation has been upset by the results . |
| 2 | The growth and international expansion of the hotel and catering industry has been phenomenal during the past decade , ensuring a constant demand for trained and skilled staff and providing ample opportunity for those who are temperamentally suited to the industry . |
| 3 | For 15 years it has been illegal in the U8A to produce a new car without a three-way catalytic converter . |
| 4 | It is in the field of its own procedures that the Court of Appeal , in the past , has been receptive to the claim of substantive justice . |
| 5 | Lastly , Mr Gandhi has been critical of the decision to let American aircraft refuel in India on their way to the Gulf . |
| 6 | On other occasions committees have been generally in support of government action but have urged that it be undertaken more vigorously : the Defence Committee has been critical of the Ministry of Defence when it has spent less than the sums provided in the annual estimates . |
| 7 | The Thatcher Government has been critical of the growth of quangos . |
| 8 | What is beyond question is that British membership has been good for the EEC ; not only do British taxpayers and consumers bear the cost of the CAP , the CFP , the Common External Tariff and the Cohesion budget , but Britain constitutes an artificial captive market for the exporters of the Eleven . |
| 9 | The continuing strength of the dollar has been good for the group , as many shipbuilding and most shipping contracts are priced in dollars , and both Finland and Norway have gained a competitive edge against both the US and Germany . |
| 10 | Chris Patten has been sworn-in as the new , and probably final , Governor of Hong Kong . |
| 11 | ISOSCELES , the debt-burdened Gateway supermarket group , has appointed Bob Nellist as finance director , a post which has been vacant since the departure of Elizabeth Hignell last September . |
| 12 | It would be impossible to better Paul 's summary of the practical and devotional potential of the Bible : " Your mind has been familiar with the holy scriptures , which can open the mind to the salvation which comes through believing on Christ Jesus . |
| 13 | Yet such sociological explanations for men 's reticence at reporting abnormal symptoms only serves to underline the absence of a national prostate screening campaign , particularly so since a simple blood test has been available over the last four years which can detect the likely presence of prostate cancer . |
| 14 | In reply , Sir Derek said that though he could not speak for other directors , ‘ my resignation has been available to the board from the day all this started . |
| 15 | In the light of what has been available on the market between 1986 and 1989 , it is fascinating to see what was not acquired as well as what has been bought . |
| 16 | Novix has been available in the UK since early 1992 and has reportedly been picked up by Parliament , BP , Amerada Hess , GEC and British Telecom . |
| 17 | Although directors and officers ' liability insurance has been available in the UK since the 1930s , it has only come into wide use in the last few years . |
| 18 | Hitachi Ltd has a new tool for use in building diagnostic and consulting expert systems : called ES-Pormote2/W-DIAG , it is designed to enable the input of knowledge in a tree structure , and it has been available from the beginning of the month at $6,000 ; it runs on the Hitachi 3050 series of Unix workstations and can be used to generate a source code program for Hitachi 's ES/Kernel series of general purpose expert system development tools ; ES-Promote runs under Hitachi 's implementation of Motif and the X Window system . |
| 19 | The 25-year-old Welshman , who had been favourite to take the Olympic title , has been unbeaten since the Games . |
| 20 | D. For a long time South West England has been remote from the main population of England . |
| 21 | But the snow , which has been slight in the past half-hour , suddenly begins to fall fast and furiously again , limiting her vision . |
| 22 | Yesterday , chairman of the council , Phyll Hendy , said : ‘ He has been unswerving in the service he has given to the parish and has been kind and co-operative to everyone . |
| 23 | He has used ‘ other Texels ’ and has been disappointed with the grading results . |
| 24 | It appears to me that the arguments which I have heard involve the consideration of three separate questions , namely : ( 1 ) does the ex turpi causa maxim and its related rules ( which I will refer to as ‘ the ex turpi causa defence ’ ) afford a defence to a claim for contribution under the Act of 1978 ? ( 2 ) If the ex turpi causa defence is capable of so applying , can it be said , with the degree of certainty necessary for a striking out order to be made , that the defence will exclude any contribution from the third party in the circumstances of this case ? ( 3 ) Leaving aside the ex turpi causa defence , can it be said with the necessary degree of certainty that the court will , under section 2(1) and ( 2 ) of the Act of 1978 , exempt the third party from liability to make contribution even if he has been negligent in the performance of some duty of care owed to the plaintiffs ? |
| 25 | This dilemma has been present since the beginnings of institutionalized literary study . |
| 26 | Liver fluke is not and never has been present in the islands . |
| 27 | A positive test result means that antibodies have been found and means that HIV has been present in the body . |
| 28 | Sponsorship forms will then be sent which should be signed by a sponsor who has been present in the Royal Enclosure for at least eight years . |
| 29 | They will require a sponsor who has been present in the Royal Enclosure for eight years . |
| 30 | It has been present from the beginning as a primitive rhythm , that element associated with the ‘ auditory imagination ’ of poetry , and so with the savage in the jungle and his gods , ‘ His rhythm was present in the nursery bedroom … |