Example sentences of "[adj] progress have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a way of proceeding has much to recommend it , but scant progress has been made in that direction . |
| 2 | Ministers ostensibly believed that economic progress had been limited by control , regulation and over-taxation . |
| 3 | The development by the Pythagoreans , for instance , of important mathematical theories out of organisations concerned with mystical cosmologies and shamanistic practices is no more an exception to the way in which scientific progress has been made or to the ‘ spirit of enquiry ’ than the fact that many modern scientific achievements arise out of arcane political interests or commercial ethics . |
| 4 | We have all sorts of remaining problems but by and large , if we look back over the past three four years , tremendous progress has been made . |
| 5 | The first Plan identified a number of initiatives and the following progress has been made : |
| 6 | Some limited progress has been made relatively recently in linking up the analysis of corporate strategy and some of the behavioural insights of strategy formulation and implementation ( see Quinn , Mintzberg and James , 1988 , for a text which refers to many of these ideas but which presents little in the way of synthesis ) , but not much has yet been done to tie that in with financial management . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , while some impact has been made , overall progress has been limited . |
| 8 | Wilson recognised the problems , admitting that though the list might be impressive , very little real progress had been made . |
| 9 | I say real progress has been made but today I am asking you to think about the next step a step that I am sure we all feel is at the heart of the matter a transforming step perhaps the critical step that will guarantee ultimate success in fulfilling god 's loving will for his church . |
| 10 | From these early imports , rapid progress has been made , although large ears and weak heads are the most common faults to be found in New Zealand stock . |
| 11 | In the thirty years between the publication of Mendel 's results and their rediscovery , great progress had been made in describing the structure and behaviour of cells . |
| 12 | Instead , great progress has been made with the pair of Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah X 375hp seven cylinder radials . |
| 13 | Yet by 1988 substantial progress had been made on all but items ( 2 ) and ( 4 ) of the agenda . |
| 14 | In respect of its legislative task , the EC Commission 's report of November 1988 indicated that , whilst substantial progress had been made , only a third of the required measures had been adopted . |
| 15 | The main stumbling block continued to be the Irish government 's insistence on involvement in talks from the start , whereas Ulster Unionists were reluctant to allow Ireland to take part until substantial progress had been made on negotiating a new form of devolved government for Northern Ireland . |
| 16 | At their joint press conference on July 31 the two leaders agreed that substantial progress had been made in developing closer US-Soviet relations . |
| 17 | On February 24 , company borrowings under the credit agreement totalled $4.3m and the chip designer says that as a result of getting this new credit agreement , restructuring of key equipment leases , and the company 's return to profitability in the first fiscal quarter to December 31 , it believes substantial progress has been made toward killing doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern . |
| 18 | To summarise this section on education : substantial progress has been made in the last twenty years in relation to the reduction of sex inequalities in education . |
| 19 | As was pointed out in the previous chapter , substantial progress has been made in reducing overcrowding , as of facially defined . |
| 20 | Substantial progress has been reported in understanding the molecular pathology of presenile Alzheimer 's disease but this can not be extrapolated to senile forms before the epidemiology of presenile disease is known . |
| 21 | Our producing operations were enhanced in 1992 with first production from the Panuke field , offshore Nova Scotia , Canada and substantial progress has been made towards development of the Kadanwari gas field in Pakistan with gas sales contracts signed in February 1993 . |
| 22 | Substantial progress has been made on , for example , the Northampton line and the Thames and Chiltern lines and will shortly be made on the Kent link lines . |
| 23 | Perhaps ‘ end of term ’ reports on individual authorities and schools after their first two and a half years or so of implementing the 1981 Act ( when the research data were finally gathered ) would range from commenting , ‘ Encouraging progress has been made ’ , through the ubiquitous ‘ Could do better ’ to ‘ Disappointing work . |
| 24 | Good progress has been made recently towards the establishment of chairmen and regional fundraising committees . |
| 25 | The company was also selected to undertake the Group 's Total Quality Management initiative and good progress has been recorded both in improved cost efficiency and service to customers . |
| 26 | Good progress has been made in Duty Free , the UK , France and Italy . |
| 27 | He is looking into the possibility of grant aid and members will be informed when firm progress has been made . |
| 28 | Fortunately , enormous progress has been made in the understanding and treatment of the disorder as a result of research on animals . |
| 29 | That is an as yet unfulfilled hope , but the recent pace of experimental progress has been so great that there is every reason for optimism . |
| 30 | It is in regard to erosion rates that perhaps the most dramatic progress has been made and in addition to world patterns of discharge , Walling and Webb ( 1983 ) have now reviewed earlier attempts to portray world patterns of sediment yield , some of which conflicted quite significantly , and have provided a revised map of global sediment yields based upon data from nearly 1500 measuring stations and pertinent to sediment yields from basins of 1000 to 10,000 km 2 in area . |