Example sentences of "have been [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is interesting to note that other countries are now copying our know-how funds because they have been of such help to the former Soviet Union and other eastern European countries . |
| 32 | Friends have been of paramount importance to her in the last ten years and she has not deserted them . |
| 33 | In any case , if enterprise zones are the model , the overwhelming evidence is that financial incentives have proved the driving force , and that liberalized planning regimes have been of limited significance . |
| 34 | Certainly the solutions to the ‘ black problem ’ of the past 200 years have been of limited vision — hostile , intolerant and frequently brutal . |
| 35 | These two treatises gave classic expression to the opposing arguments about the eucharist , and they have been of great interest to theologians ever since . |
| 36 | Clearly a canal from that small seaport village to the foot of Coniston Water would , in the earlier years at least , have been of considerable benefit to the mine and to other lake users . |
| 37 | Very rightly , Mr. Beloff has presented arguments to the court , which have been of considerable assistance , and which were in favour of the plaintiffs and not of the Bank of England on the main issue of principle . |
| 38 | However , they have been of considerable value in that they have challenged the assumptions of many gerontologists and policy makers and forced a closer examination of our knowledge about health and ageing in later life . |
| 39 | The rich picture should include all the important hard ‘ facts ’ of the organisational situation , and the examples given have been of this nature . |
| 40 | But , whatever their idiosyncrasies and complexities , this highly individual body of printers served the book well and , if they sometimes failed in their human relationships , achieved in print a beauty and harmony that have been of inestimable benefit to us all . |
| 41 | Variations of the theme , e.g. with different boundary conditions or with internal heating replacing heating from below , have been of some interest ; but all the specific results in this chapter will relate to the conditions above . |
| 42 | Strictly speaking , marriage does not contribute directly to population change , but , because of its association with the legitimacy of births in most countries , marriage rates have been of some interest . |
| 43 | On the other hand , such issues of Media Development as ‘ Video for the People ’ ( 4/1989 ) and ‘ Radio — the Sound of the People ’ ( 4/1990 ) have been of direct relevance to communication practitioners . |
| 44 | Though he survived and prospered , there have been times this season when the chances of Mr Stringer lasting as Norwich manager until FA Cup semi-final day seemed remote . |
| 45 | We have been without this issue as she is still receiving the last of her treatment from Charing Cross Hospital . |
| 46 | From the end of the Permo-Carboniferous ice age 250 million years ago to about 20 million years ago , polar regions have been without permanent ice . |
| 47 | Most essential of all for the future assessment of public finance , we must establish a truly independent source of economic statistics to ensure that judgments are not distorted — as they have been under this Government , by political interference in their collection or presentation . |
| 48 | … in recent weeks , Bush and Major have been under some pressure from the families of people who died at Lockerbie . |
| 49 | It is he whose father was rebel Conservative MP Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler standing as a Lib Dem in East Anglia but we have been down that road enough . |
| 50 | WE have been down this road before . |
| 51 | I mean I have been into this window frame business . |
| 52 | House prices will not rise in the same way and consumers who have been through that experience have been hard bitten by it . |
| 53 | People who have been through this experience will describe how angry they feel with the doctor when having asked , ‘ How long ’ , they are told something like , ‘ We ca n't really say . |
| 54 | To date , three cases have been through this process . |
| 55 | Your lads have been over this place with a fine-tooth comb . |
| 56 | In relation to what the hon. Member for Walsall , North ( Mr. Winnick ) said about the letters that I receive , very few of them to date , particularly since we have been televised , have been about bad behaviour in the House — rather the reverse — and I wish it to remain that way . |
| 57 | ‘ Most approaches have been from smaller chemical plants . |
| 58 | ‘ So many runners are depending on this race to qualify for the Olympics , especially the Portuguese , who have been in invincible form in half-marathons , and I would not be surprised if the winner is someone no one has heard of . ’ |
| 59 | The scholarship is open to those aged 21–30 with Wine and Spirit Higher Certificate or equivalent and who have been in full-time employment in the catering industry for at least two years or have experience of direct sales in on-licensed premises . |
| 60 | Young openers Matthew Hayden and Michael Slater have been in sparkling form but the tourists are likely to start with their tried and trusted one-day partnership of Mark Taylor and Mark Waugh . |