Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun] has be " in BNC.

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1 In 1992/93 the maximum loan was £715 and this can be expected to increase in real terms in coming years ; at the same time , the level of the maximum maintenance grant and parental contribution has been frozen at 1990/91 levels .
2 South Africa 's social and political structure has been based on the policy of racial segregation ( apartheid ) ; under the Constitution of 1984 , there is a tricameral Parliament , with a House of Assembly ( 178 members ) elected by whites , a House of Representatives ( 85 members ) elected by people of mixed race ( " Coloureds " ) , and a House of Delegates ( 45 members ) elected by Indians , but no representation for the majority black population .
3 Unlike most European countries where a close association between unions and political parties has been a longstanding phenomenon , US unions have little close and direct connection with political parties and have relied very heavily on collective bargaining rather than political activity as the means of achieving their ends .
4 Prime amongst these , at the present historical juncture , is the European Community ( EC ) , whose progress towards economic and political integration has been slow , a fact which does not dismay its competitors in world trade .
5 However , the organization of rural workers has been crucial to the formation of the Salvadorean opposition movement and political repression has been most savage in the countryside .
6 Not too surprisingly , this kind of perspective on Britain 's economic and political troubles has been best expressed by third parties outside of the established adversarial two-party system .
7 Company says it can not rule out more job losses after a review of technical and administrative staff has been completed .
8 The general topic of education and rural development has been divided into four main themes :
9 Environmental standards have improved in some of the older zones , and local physical and economic development has been improved .
10 So far the political and economic aspect has been emphasised , but there is also a spatial one .
11 Another consequence of the war and economic crisis has been an increasing dependence on external aid .
12 Although conservation measures are understood to have been rigorously applied and economic growth has been sluggish or negative over the past few years , neither energy consumption nor oil consumption has fallen in any significant way in Eastern Europe .
13 SAVE 's MOST CELEBRATED and prolonged battle has been to stop the demolition of the important triangle of Victorian buildings in the heart of the City of London that includes Mappin and Webb , Mansion House and the Bank of England .
14 This will be used to test the hypothesis that the relationship between state policy and private capital has been crucial to the development of the mineral-energy complex and has been an important factor in the successful capital goods sectors ; this will be supplemented through comparative analysis with other mineral and energy producers in developing economies .
15 This project focusses on the extent to which the transferral of industrial ownership between public and private sector has been justified , ex ante and ex post , by political considerations on the one hand an economic considerations on the other .
16 Protocols for permitting access should be drawn up ( E and K Chief Librarians are working on this ) , and technical advice has been obtained from Edinburgh University Computing Services and other sources .
17 Strong in the air , alert and mobile Rogan has been outstanding .
18 Indeed , one of the most disgraceful things that we have seen in the Chamber this week was the Maastricht agreement which , in terms of social policy , means that the opportunity to do so much to support the family , children and working mothers has been lost .
19 A genuine and pleasant surprise has been the development of Motherwell , previously forced to carry the banner of the most boring team in the League .
20 A team of around 30 detectives and uniformed officers has been working on the inquiry .
21 Consulting that people gave , basic traffic mentioning survey work which has been carried out and public consultation has been undertaken in the town , focus upon an exhibition of possible adoptions held in July this year at the Brandon Community Centre .
22 This book is not , therefore , divided on traditional lines and a mixture of analytical and narrative chapters has been adopted in order to bring out , whenever possible , the general rather than the local and particular , characteristics of European history in this period .
23 Also , a bed containing heathers and low-growing conifers has been established .
24 The debate aimed at winning more control over policy , staff and top appointments has been fuelled by the row over the party 's policy on water privatisation and the question-mark over the shadow Scottish secretary , Tom Clarke .
25 The relationship between syntactic and semantic processing has been a central concern of psycholinguistics for the last two decades .
26 That 's true , er the market , and I think , the general public must be aware that so far , the supply is kept at a reasonable level , the erm difficulty coming out of the erm interruption of Iraqi and Kuwaiti field has been replaced .
27 Inside is comfortable seating and adequate space has been left for the positioning of wheelchairs .
28 YET ANOTHER expensive , colourful and glossy document has been sent to parents by the Department of Education ( DENI ) .
29 Fanon 's apparent ignorance and misrepresentation of women and feminine sexuality has been remarked before ; less so his equally problematic representation of homosexuality , and the way he slides from the one to the other : ‘ the Negrophobic woman is in tact nothing but a putative sexual partner — just as the Negrophobic man is a repressed homosexual . ’
30 Saudi Arabia has stockpiled close to 30m barrels of the stuff during the first quarter of 1989 ; Iran has been busy filling European storage tanks ; Saudi , Kuwaiti and Iraqi oil has been pouring into America almost as fast as it did in December .
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