Example sentences of "[verb] been [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Er , if the person er is sitting watching the television and er has been awake for several hours then we are at a disadvantage . |
| 3 | Interest has been phenomenal with all Areas represented by ladies 7s and gents 11s . |
| 4 | In a sustained way ( meaning in more than sporadic decisions ) , it can be argued that the court has been critical to national questions only twice . |
| 5 | Rowlands has been critical of Welsh officials who went to the SA Rugby Board celebrations . |
| 6 | That schools differ widely in outlook , expertise and resources , and that such differences help to influence the degree to which individual pupils may find it difficult to progress has been one of seminal emphases of the Warnock Report ( DES 1978 ) . |
| 7 | The Republic of El Salvador was ruled by Spain until 1821 and gained separate independence in 1839 , since which time the country 's history has been one of frequent coups and political violence . |
| 8 | But the discharge may be refused or postponed if he has been guilty of certain offences or misconduct in connection with the bankruptcy , or if his assets are insufficient for the payment of 50p in the £ , unless this is shown not to be due to the debtor 's fault . |
| 9 | And in looking at the experience not merely of Asia , but also of Africa , what becomes increasingly apparent is that most development strategies have tended _ particularly when we look at technical change — erm have tended to bypass women , or in many cases one also notes that the impact of technical change has been detrimental to poor women , and examples of this can be found , for instance , in terms of adoption of certain kinds of technique , like mechanisation of rice processing in parts of Asia , where one finds that there has been a large scale displacement of landless women . |
| 10 | ‘ There had been a good relationship on the whole between the management and myself and it has been supportive on both sides . ’ |
| 11 | This has been invaluable in challenging simplicities about , say , the ‘ repression ’ of sexuality in nineteenth-century Europe , and in questioning the teleological view which sees a gradual climb towards permissiveness from Victorian darkness . |
| 12 | IBIsys has been available for four years and has around 15,000 customers scattered across Italy , Europe , Canada , South Africa and Australia . |
| 13 | Thus a verdict at an inquest of natural causes aggravated by lack of care has been available for many years . |
| 14 | Groups of bed-sitters with communal lounge facilities have been tried , and in some places the shared lounge has been available for social facilities for the old people of the neighbourhood . |
| 15 | Rubella ( German measles ) can cause devastating damage to the fetus in early pregnancy and girls who have not had an attack of this disease by the age of puberty are offered immunisation against this virus so that any baby conceived would be protected , although this should soon be rare in the UK because from 1988 , MMR ( measles , mumps , rubella ) protection has been available to all infants . |
| 16 | Alcohol has been available in various pubs and discos in Edinburgh from 7am until 5am the following morning . |
| 17 | With this in view the consensus among the agencies is that there will be some discounting , because nobody can ever get it exactly right , but nothing like what has been available in recent years . |
| 18 | Oxygen itself has been present in significant amounts in the atmosphere for only about two and a half billion years — just over half the total life of our planet ; and there had already been a billion years of evolution before that . |
| 19 | Reciprocity The concept of reciprocity has been central to academic studies of kinship , especially in anthropology . |
| 20 | The role of bureaucracy in politics has been central to Marxist debates about the state in capitalist societies , though the details of bureaucratic structures and processes have not received the attention they deserve . |
| 21 | Adult worm burdens are typically in excess of 40,000 , although lower numbers are often found in animals which has been diarrhoeic for several days prior to necropsy . |
| 22 | The change of status , too , from ‘ wife , to ‘ widow ’ is felt very keenly by most women as a loss of considerable significance , which indeed it is ; for without a partner , a woman who has been married for some years may , unless she already has well developed interests outside her home , find that her social life is suddenly transformed in a very disturbing way . |
| 23 | Maitre Lelièpvre has been married for 60 years , and has a son . |
| 24 | Political culture is a vague abstract concept that has been subject to various definitions . |
| 25 | This can be appreciated by considering how , in different countries and at different times , the provision of health care , housing , education and other ‘ essential ’ services such as electricity and transport , has been subject to varying degrees of public ownership and control . |
| 26 | Over the past 2 years it has been subject to extensive repairs and its site to archaeological investigation . |
| 27 | So our support has been subject to redefined guidelines , as you 'd expect from any efficient organisation . |
| 28 | The ratio of locals to newcomers in the village today depends not only on the accessibility to nearby urban centres , but , now that most of lowland England has been subject to these changes , by the mixture of housing which each village contains . |
| 29 | In many respects the management of GEAR has been ineffective : goals have been defined too broadly , simply to ensure consensus ; organizations have been assimilated within GEAR for purely cosmetic purposes ; power has been too diffuse ; and too much has been made of environmental improvements when the local economy has been subject to dramatic changes and unemployment has risen substantially . |
| 30 | Pouch excision or a persistent proximal stoma has been necessary in six patients with possible Crohn 's disease ( 30% ) ( Crohn 's disease 3 cases 30% , indeterminate colitis 3 cases 30% ) compared with nine ( 15% ) of the remainder . |