Example sentences of "been [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has also been centralization in the public services . |
| 2 | Robert de Niro has always been case as the Invisible Man of Hollywood . |
| 3 | ‘ We have been progress of the Great Britain Education Bill with a view to ensuring that , as far as possible , parents of children with special educational needs in Northern Ireland enjoy the same rights as those in England and Wales . ’ |
| 4 | There will have been progress on the creation of a single European market , especially in financial services . |
| 5 | A further consequence arising from studies of process has paradoxically been progress towards a more integrated approach because investigations of one specific process have often proceeded to encompass other processes in the way that soil process investigations have become involved with hillslope processes and with plant-soil moisture relationships and also with boundary layer climatology . |
| 6 | Knill said that there had been progress in collaboration with HEIs over responsive mode funding and with NERC 's institutes . |
| 7 | There has been progress in the integration of community languages into the mainstream curriculum but the progress is pitifully slow , with a number of factors compounding a lack of confidence amongst those campaigning for greater sensitivity towards and encouragement of the forms of language brought by pupils into British Schools . |
| 8 | If the body had turned out to be Stavanger 's it would have been progress in the case , though we 'd have been no nearer knowing where he had been killed , or who had killed him . |
| 9 | There has been progress in design , but no progress in accomplishment , specifically because there has been equal progress in design on both sides of the arms race . |
| 10 | In the past few years , however , there has been progress in the systematic analysis of qualitative data using a variety of specially written computer programs . |
| 11 | There had also been progress in compiling the common list of exportable products , which had grown from 312 items in 1987 to more than 700 . |
| 12 | But although there is immunocytochemical evidence for NO synthase in hippocampal interneurons , there has been difficulty in obtaining evidence for its expression in pyramidal or granule cells . |
| 13 | A solicitor may not accept instructions in a matter in which to his knowledge another solicitor has been retained without the consent of that other solicitor , nor should a solicitor instructed in a particular matter communicate directly with anyone who has retained a solicitor on the other side , though a direct approach may be justified if there has been difficulty in making contact with that solicitor . |
| 14 | It says there has been difficulty in convincing both presbyteries and congregations of the need for financial planning for the future . |
| 15 | Since July 1400 he had been archdeacon of Dorset , absentee but perhaps not without interest . |
| 16 | There was the dark-eyed , slant-featured look of the ancient lost Royal Houses of Ireland in several of them , the glossy hair that might easily have been fur in others . |
| 17 | There had long been resistance to making him a saint due to his open contempt for Christian domestic morality ( he had lived with concubines after the death of his last wife ) . |
| 18 | On May 19th seven civil servants were fired ( though , in one of many farcical moves , five have now been unfired ) among muttering that there may have been criminality in the office . |
| 19 | In the case of Larbert , there has been support for the application from the Institute of Health Services Management , the Forth Valley college of nursing and midwifery and the National Board for Nursing , Midwifery and Health Visiting . |
| 20 | In the case of South Ayrshire , there has been support from a majority of consultants in general surgery , orthopaedics and radiology . |
| 21 | At least once in their lives , most of these men would have met Thorfinn : more perhaps than had come face to face with King Duncan in the six years of his reign and before , when he had been prince of Cumbria in the shadow of Malcolm his grandfather . |
| 22 | There has been bloodshed in other communities . |
| 23 | Yet Dysart 's expression reminded him of something else she had said : that Dysart and Clare had been arguing immediately before the explosion ; that there had been friction between them for some time . |
| 24 | A CRE spokesman confirmed to The Scotsman that it had begun an official investigation ‘ which arises from our view that there may have been discrimination in some of the things being done by the education department of Strathclyde Regional Council . ’ |
| 25 | A CRE spokesman confirmed to The Scotsman that it had begun an official investigation ‘ which arises from our view that there may have been discrimination in some of the things being done by the education department of Strathclyde Regional Council . ’ |
| 26 | It is difficult for an individual complainant to show that there has been discrimination against him/her on the grounds of race . |
| 27 | There has also been malpractice in the past by officials administering the fund , he claims , in which thousands of pounds were used to foot the bill for regimental social functions . |
| 28 | On the supply side , there had been underinvestment in many areas of primary production for some years . |
| 29 | Analysts such as Anderson ( 1984 ) , Frisby ( 1985 ) and Callinicos ( 1985 ) have thus aggressively disputed Lyotard 's famous pronouncement that the contemporary scepticism before ‘ metanarratives ’ has been midwife to the birth of the postmodern condition . |
| 30 | It may , for example , have been part of a private collection which itself was catalogued , especially if the collector in question was rich . |