Example sentences of "substantial progress have [be] " in BNC.

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1 Yet by 1988 substantial progress had been made on all but items ( 2 ) and ( 4 ) of the agenda .
2 In respect of its legislative task , the EC Commission 's report of November 1988 indicated that , whilst substantial progress had been made , only a third of the required measures had been adopted .
3 The main stumbling block continued to be the Irish government 's insistence on involvement in talks from the start , whereas Ulster Unionists were reluctant to allow Ireland to take part until substantial progress had been made on negotiating a new form of devolved government for Northern Ireland .
4 At their joint press conference on July 31 the two leaders agreed that substantial progress had been made in developing closer US-Soviet relations .
5 On February 24 , company borrowings under the credit agreement totalled $4.3m and the chip designer says that as a result of getting this new credit agreement , restructuring of key equipment leases , and the company 's return to profitability in the first fiscal quarter to December 31 , it believes substantial progress has been made toward killing doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern .
6 To summarise this section on education : substantial progress has been made in the last twenty years in relation to the reduction of sex inequalities in education .
7 As was pointed out in the previous chapter , substantial progress has been made in reducing overcrowding , as of facially defined .
8 Substantial progress has been reported in understanding the molecular pathology of presenile Alzheimer 's disease but this can not be extrapolated to senile forms before the epidemiology of presenile disease is known .
9 Our producing operations were enhanced in 1992 with first production from the Panuke field , offshore Nova Scotia , Canada and substantial progress has been made towards development of the Kadanwari gas field in Pakistan with gas sales contracts signed in February 1993 .
10 Substantial progress has been made on , for example , the Northampton line and the Thames and Chiltern lines and will shortly be made on the Kent link lines .
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