Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [been] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chief way out of this difficulty has been for empirical studies to focus on surrogates for power , rather than directly on the exercise of power itself . |
| 2 | March has been in financial difficulties for some time and does n't have a sponsor for this season . |
| 3 | Norfolk has been for many years one of our Medau strongholds and it is for this reason that the Society decided to select this prestigious location . |
| 4 | The census has been for many years now an important instrument , among a range of such instruments , in the administration of the welfare state . |
| 5 | Our Regional Association has been through difficult times , mainly due to isolation and communication problems . |
| 6 | The car has been through several variations of engine size , but now like an ageing but still beautiful dowager , repeated facelifts can no longer wholly hide the ravages of time and progress . ’ |
| 7 | Our talk has been of non-commuting observables or the Fourier analysis of wavepackets . |
| 8 | The major thrust of this recent research has been in four directions . |
| 9 | ‘ The North has been through hard times but things are changing , ’ he said . |
| 10 | It is certainly not true of Arab public opinion which has long ago accepted the ‘ linkage ’ that Washington has been at such pains to discount . |
| 11 | The exercise of these duties has been at all times , and remains , subject to the visitorial jurisdiction of the judges . |
| 12 | The standard model of local government since the war has been of multi-functional authorities with an elected council supervising the direct provision of services . |
| 13 | Gary Needham , general manager , said MCP has been in preliminary talks with Thompson but remained tight lipped on the nature of any agreement . |
| 14 | The most marked shift has been between different sectors : the percentage of output ( Gross Domestic product , or GDP ) accounted for by manufacturing has decreased while the proportion attributable to service industries has increased . |
| 15 | Since the Federal Court in the Eastern District of Texas , and subsequently the Fifth Circuit Federal Appellate Court seated in New Orleans intervened , the pendulum has swung and the emphasis has been on detailed rules to cover all contingencies , the implementation of which is far less dependent on the quality of individual personnel . |
| 16 | Indeed , in most examples , the emphasis has been on social systems in which males sporting the elaborate character are polygamous and have little to do with other aspects of reproduction . |
| 17 | This may indicate that the conflict has been over peripheral matters , that a core belief in a transcendent power could retain its plausibility , untouched by changing conceptions of the physical world . |
| 18 | The United Kingdom has been through 13 years in which unemployment has more than doubled , irreplaceable assets have been wasted , markets at home and abroad have been lost , manufacturing investment has fallen , poverty has increased , the crime rate has rocketed , and talents have been neglected . |
| 19 | They say that until now paclitaxel for human drug use has been from felled trees , but in 1993 sources other than Pacific yew bark will be used on a commercial scale , and by 1995 they hope actual trees will no longer be needed to produce the drug . |
| 20 | Indeed , the trend in the recent past has been for such experiments to get simpler and simpler ( more and more transparent ) in terms of the decision-problems given to the subjects . |
| 21 | As noted earlier , most of the newly created jobs in the service sector are occupied by women on a part-time basis , whereas most of the labour expelled from manufacturing has been in full-time jobs occupied by men . |
| 22 | The firm 's been in financial difficulties and moved out of its premises in the Brunel Centre last month . |
| 23 | The most dramatic improvement has been among arctic terns , which are breeding on the islands for the first time in seven years . |
| 24 | Much of the recent growth in service sector employment has been in private services . |
| 25 | The fastest growth has been in other kinds of paper , and particularly paper packaging , which now takes up 19% of the space in landfills . |
| 26 | The best known use of zeolites has been as dehydrating agents — the so called molecular sieves — which can effectively filter out and hold on to water molecules thereby removing them from other liquids . |
| 27 | Beryl Davies has been to several meetings of the Shropshire A. S. M. group . |
| 28 | My experience over this past year has been of closed doors . |
| 29 | That came as no surprise to us , as we know how good the business climate in this country has been in recent years with the success of deregulation and low taxation and the attractiveness of Britain as a home of inward investment . |
| 30 | Basically , the tradition has been for financial landowners to pursue the investment route by building shopping centres as a long-term project , e.g. the Coal Industry Pension fund in North Shields . |