Example sentences of "[verb] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Reducing prices to under £10 has been one method . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | Spink , who has been first choice since regaining the No 1 spot from Les Sealey in March , said : ‘ There was a time when my future seemed in jeopardy but things have turned my way again . ’ |
| 34 | All are back with Parramatta and their father Les has been first grade manager . |
| 35 | There has been new legislation introduced in the form of the European six pack and the cost regulations but this legislation will only be effective if it is enforced . |
| 36 | Where there has been new investment it has been financed largely from income generated in Africa and re-invested locally . |
| 37 | My preparations are well advanced ; but there has been other business to attend to here . ’ |
| 38 | Though there has been good response in the first two areas , it is in the third that the brief hints in the text have been totally transcended through the amazing growth of lay groups meeting for prayer or study , representing various degrees of organization or none , some purely Catholic but most of them ecumenically open . |
| 39 | There has been good response from advertisers resulting in relatively small expenses being incurred . |
| 40 | The court will look to its own law to determine whether there has been good service , sufficient in a common law system to found jurisdiction ; the same law will identify the steps required to set running the time which must elapse before a default judgment can be entered ; and the same law will , in some countries , apply to determine whether service was so defective that a default judgment must be set aside . |
| 41 | THE STRIKE at Britain 's waterworks has been good news for a sheltered workshop in Watford . |
| 42 | The competitive procurement policy of the Ministry of Defence has been good news not only for the Ministry and the taxpayer but for the yards . |
| 43 | It is not surprising that there has been such growth in the south-east . |
| 44 | THINKING , talking and working along European lines has been second nature to Mike Ward for many years now . |
| 45 | By the time you realize your accountant has been second rate , your career may be over . |
| 46 | However , at Rickstones Road there has been extensive vandalism . |
| 47 | There has been extensive coverage of select committees ( especially in the Thursday programme as many committees meet on Wednesdays ) and some coverage of standing committees ( perhaps not surprisingly , the committee on the Broadcasting Bill seems to have had particular appeal for the broadcasters and 16 of its sittings were televised ) . |
| 48 | For example , there has been extensive coverage of the controversial actions of a few local councils in London , and of the campaign for black sections in the Labour party . |
| 49 | There has been extensive work on the psychology of language ( Campbell and Smith , 1976 ; Gerver and Sinaiko , 1978 ) , but with a greater emphasis on language as an interpersonal communication vehicle rather than language as a supporter of thinking . |
| 50 | First , there has been extensive discussion as to what is or should be meant by " marginal cost " . |
| 51 | In the United Kingdom there has been extensive discussion of the ‘ quango ’ phenomenon , but not always in the context of corporatist theory . |
| 52 | ( 1982 ) have used old Ordnance Survey maps to show that there has been extensive reclamation of moorland on the plateau uplands of the North York Moors , Exmoor , Dartmoor and the Brecon Beacons . |
| 53 | Another change has been extensive draining of moorland ( Stewart and Lance , 1983 ) and this allied to increased sheep numbers and other factors ( Anderson and Yalden , 1981 ) has led not only to a decrease in moorland vegetation but to a reduction in wildlife , notably grouse . |
| 54 | The bones come from the remains of small mammals apparently trapped in a pitfall cut into chalk , and there has been extensive alteration on both the enamel and the bone , with surface flaking on the vole molars ( Fig. 1.13 A , B ) and incisors ( Fig. 1.13 C , D ) . |
| 55 | In view of the universality and range of the interview situation it is not surprising that there has been extensive research , but for the same reasons the research is of little operational consequence . |
| 56 | There has been extensive remodelling and refurbishing of suites in the Garden Wing , the River Wing , and the Authors ' Wing of the Oriental Hotel , Bangkok . |
| 57 | There has been extensive imitation , for example , of the vocabulary and style of the critic F.R. Leavis ( e.g. in use of such words as " equipoise " and " maturity " to describe writers ' qualities , or of such phrases as " it seems to me that … |
| 58 | He became an MP in 1974 , joined the Cabinet as Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 1985 , and since then has been agricultural minister ( surviving the Edwina Currie salmonella in eggs scare ) , Education Secretary , Leader of the House and now transport . |
| 59 | What is missed is that alongside an increase in centralized control has been persistent dissent ; domination — social , economic and ideological — has been maintained only through struggle . |
| 60 | The chief headache for publishers to date has been perpetual change in syllabuses , which can seriously affect or disrupt the publishing process . |