Example sentences of "has [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Valentin has been discreet about his upbringing . |
| 2 | But one of the most lucrative markets , the office , has been untouched . |
| 3 | Not for the first time , therefore , a government keen on deregulation has been upset by the results . |
| 4 | They could go into land without asking permission and farmers would not even say a word , but that has been upset now . |
| 5 | President Mitterrand of France ( and he 's not alone in this ) has been anxious that too swift a move to reunify the two Germanys could destabilise Gorbachev , something that could spell disaster not only for the West but for the balance of world power . |
| 6 | For that reason , abstract art has been anxious to distance itself from decoration . |
| 7 | The DES has been anxious to promote a national system of transferability and , to this long-term end , it set up a working party in June 1977 to examine all aspects of a national credit transfer agency , under the chairmanship of Peter Toyne , formerly of Exeter University and now Deputy Director of the West Sussex Institute of Higher Education . |
| 8 | Er Madam Speaker , I I agree with er the honourable gentleman that it 's extremely important that the various agencies do play a part in working together to ensure effective action with minimum bureaucracy and I know that the honourable gentleman has been anxious to ensure that that happens in his own constituency and his own area where he is dealing with the problems of high unemployment er and the fall out from the closures of pits in his area and if the honourable gentleman has any specific er er measures which he would like us to look at then I 'd be very happy to consider those . |
| 9 | The Government has been anxious to find a slot for such legislation but has not acted yet , partly because of a full parliamentary timetable and because of technical difficulties in defining which types of weapons should be outlawed . |
| 10 | It means the savings expected to follow council reform could be less than suggested — an issue which may become crucial since the Government has been anxious to demonstrate that dismantling the present two-tier council structure would bring meaningful savings . |
| 11 | The UK is only beginning to realise the potential of partnerships ; education has been shy to join hands with business and vice versa , but it has to happen . |
| 12 | A girl who has been shy or awkward can become quite self-possessed as she cares for her new baby . |
| 13 | A recent visitor has been 37418 ‘ Pectinidae ’ on hire from the Petroleum Sector . |
| 14 | The report proposes a new structure for the centre , which it says has been underused as a TNO institute . |
| 15 | ‘ There has been specific targeting of areas like the Shankill and Ballymurphy areas of West Belfast , ’ said one detective . |
| 16 | Such monomania has been useful to warriors since long before the silicon age . |
| 17 | But whilst the concern might , therefore , have been largely misplaced , it has been useful in fostering a re-examination of the way schools and LEAs maintain discipline amongst pupils and in prompting fresh research into the nature of misbehaviour in schools . |
| 18 | FTIR analysis has been useful in identifying the provenance of ceramics , which is usually complicated by their processing from raw clay into the finished artefact . |
| 19 | The work has been useful in 2 ways : firstly , it has yielded demonstrator programmes that can be used to convince more senior officers ; and it has increased the number of people available with some knowledge of expert systems . |
| 20 | Simply noting how often node names occur and looking for repeating patterns has been useful . |
| 21 | For , though there has been useful progress in bringing Co-operation to attention as a credible option , it remains in the United Kingdom , far more than in some western democracies , an exceptional way of undertaking an industrial venture . |
| 22 | This work has been useful in two main areas : analysis of types of content — see Berelson ( 1950 ) and Williams ( 1962 ) — and of the selection and portrayal of certain social figures — see Lowenthal ( 1961 ) . |
| 23 | AEA 's Commercial and Planning Director , James Bretherton , commented that the ‘ MMC Report has been useful external validation of what we are trying to achieve . |
| 24 | Similarly , should you wish to discuss with either of them how BAIE has been useful to them in their university post , why not telephone , Director of PR and Information Services , University of Edinburgh ( ) 31 etc ) or , Director of development , University of Stirling on xxxxx . |
| 25 | Although two thirds of Oxfordshire teachers consider that the scheme has been useful in producing proposals for change in schools , the actual changes claimed are rather nebulous and a quarter of all teachers are unsure as to whether their review has led to any changes at all . |
| 26 | In recent years , however , the canine colon has become a standard model for colonic motility studies and , although it displays some kinds of contractile activity not seen in man , it has been useful for investigating neuropharmacological interactions . |
| 27 | Now I do n't know if you think this has been useful |
| 28 | Er , if the person er is sitting watching the television and er has been awake for several hours then we are at a disadvantage . |
| 29 | One aspect of this discretion relates to the time limit for making an application for judicial review under RSC Order 53 : s. 31(6) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 allows the court to refuse leave or to refuse relief if there has been undue delay in making the application and that the granting of relief would , amongst other things , be ‘ detrimental to good administration ’ . |
| 30 | The allegation that there has been undue secrecy seems untrue . |