Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [adj] in [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Photographic recording of naevi and use of these photographs to detect change suggesting development of melanoma has been essential in this study . |
| 2 | A statement issued by Glaxo says : ’ The company has consistently denied it has been negligent in any way in relation to the supply of Myodil , it voluntarily withdrew the product in 1987 , as it had been superceded by new products and technology . ’ |
| 3 | To conclude , in order to examine an area which is rarely focused upon in itself , it has been necessary in this chapter artificially to abstract the object , considering it in rather universalistic terms , and in relation to a perhaps overdrawn dichotomy with language . |
| 4 | Recently it has been well-aired in this country through broadcasts and festivals ; enough to form an initial overall view . |
| 5 | Johnson 's work merits this special position both because it has been influential in this country — Bankowski and Mungham ( 1976 ) use it , for example , and it routinely appears on ‘ English Legal System ’ booklists — and also because he explicitly takes issue with ideologically determined empiricist and common sense definitions of professionals in terms of the ‘ traits ’ which they possess . |
| 6 | The take-up has been disappointing in some respects , with the most highly motivated members attending several courses . |
| 7 | And some of the buildup play has been tremendous in this period of time . |
| 8 | Despite the conclusion of a Comprehensive Programme of Integration in 1971 , progress on this front has been pitiful in many respects compared with that achieved within the EEC . |
| 9 | Although I deeply regret the closures of pits for mainly economic reasons as that creates problems , the increase in productivity has been helpful in that respect . |
| 10 | Mrs Thatcher has been fortunate in that retirements of several senior personnel in the early 1980s gave her the opportunity to influence promotions ; there were thirteen appointments as Permanent Secretary in 1982 alone and she has had a hand in appointing the great majority of Permanent and Assistant Permanent Secretaries since 1979 . |
| 11 | Ever since his election as ARFU president in 1988 , French has been involved in many discussions with South African rugby officials assisting and advising them in their aim once again to be welcomed back into the international playing fraternity . |
| 12 | He has attended numerous meetings and social events , and has been involved in many projects . |
| 13 | As will later become clear , Mrs Whitehouse has been involved in many campaigns in this area but there are two in particular which are of immediate relevance to this discussion . |
| 14 | Warren , 61 , has been involved in all aspects of reprocessing research and development . |
| 15 | During the years has been involved in all aspects of malt production , holding management posts at Bath , Salisbury , Abingdon and Gloucester . |
| 16 | He has been involved in several research projects relating to the spatial impacts of industrial organisation and change within the UK and EC . |
| 17 | Catholic Caring Services is an approved adoption agency for the Diocese of Lancaster and has been involved in this work for 60 years . |
| 18 | There is no space here to examine this issue in detail , but it is at least a little odd that the work of such pragmatic theorists as Grice , Horn , Levinson and Sperber and Wilson , which has been successful in many areas and which has also cast serious doubt on speech-act-based approaches , is never mentioned in a book which explicitly claims the superiority of Austinian approaches . |
| 19 | Medau work has been popular in this part of Paris for the past eighteen years . |
| 20 | ‘ This season has been different in many respects . |
| 21 | The work of Dr Fines and colleagues has been important in this field ( see Box 7 ) . |
| 22 | In the case of Japan , writers such as Fox ( 1980 ) stress that long-term planning based on market research has been vital in those areas where innovation , and not just importation , of technology has occurred in Japan , such as the consumer electronics industry . |
| 23 | What is documented in the book is what everyone in sport has known for years — that the use of steroids has been widespread in many sports since the sixties . |
| 24 | Water is committed to the development of effective competition and has been instrumental in many changes . |
| 25 | Anyone who has been instrumental in this transformation of another person 's life through the impact of the Word of God and the Spirit of God will know that it is not his own doing . |
| 26 | Bill Chandler , of the Batelle Memorial Institute 's Pacific Northwest Laboratory in Washington DC , has been instrumental in this initiative . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd been involved in that plane near miss on the way to York which would have frightened anyone and it was hard to concentrate properly . |
| 28 | I 'd been welcome in that house for as long as you had-longer , because you were away and I just about lived there . |
| 29 | I did not use a tape recorder for these interviews , though one might have been helpful in some ways , though perhaps inhibiting to my informants in other ways . |
| 30 | This book has been written from the US Army 's court-martial records , something which would not have been possible in this country , where such records are closed to the public for 100 years . |