Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [adv] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strangely , nobody said anything , but the culprit has been notably absent from subsequent holidays . |
| 2 | For a man who was leading the campaign for sanctions against South Africa , when that was still a hopeless liberal cause , he has been notably diffident about such things as collective punishment and detention without trial in the Israeli-occupied territories . |
| 3 | BILL CLINTON has been painfully slow with most appointments , but he has moved faster than George Bush did in 1989 to find a chairman for the Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) . |
| 4 | It must also be said of Poland that its society has been most resistant to Communist influence and , that of all East European countries , the gap between the state and its society has been greatest The LWP has not gone out of its way to act as the arbiter of events ; rather , it has had this role thrust upon it by Party factionalism and weakness . |
| 5 | According to their analysis of American industrial confrontations from the 1870s to the 1960s , violence has been most severe on those occasions when employers have tried to ‘ break ’ existing unions , or deny recognition to newly forming ones . |
| 6 | Such management has been particularly subject to political pressure in support of localism , both from central government and from regional and district governments . |
| 7 | In those in whom this failed to identify flow within the stent , transoesophageal duplex ultrasound was performed and has been particularly useful in obese patients . |
| 8 | Although this has been particularly influential for many forms of Western Marxism , it also represents a deviation from Marx 's original claim that history is the effect of material conditions rather than of human consciousness . |
| 9 | MIND has continued to play a strong public role in defending the civil liberties and rights to treatment and care of all mentally disordered people , and it has been particularly successful in supporting individuals who have been maltreated and neglected by the mental health service system . |
| 10 | He has been particularly keen on educational pursuits . |
| 11 | The growth has been particularly strong in traditional manufacturing regions , such as the northwest of England and the east Midlands , as well as the high-technology areas of Scotland and East Anglia . |
| 12 | In that context , what has been particularly difficult for all of us in Scotland to deal with has been the Government 's secrecy . |
| 13 | This has been particularly true of recent years , in , say the 15-year office building boom which succeeded the sudden end to the penultimate property crash of 1973/4 . |
| 14 | Fleischmann has been particularly worried about possible strategic implications of their research , believing that much of the negative reactions to it are prejudiced by this and that national security interests have orchestrated attempts to suppress or trash their work . |
| 15 | Family size at longer durations of marriage has been rather stable in recent years ; the similarity of family building of people born in the 1960s to that of the 1920s does not imply much reduction in family size . |
| 16 | Implementation of directives has been hopelessly inadequate in some countries , notably Greece and Italy . |
| 17 | So far this chapter has been largely relevant to social work both within the community and in the residential area . |
| 18 | If , as seems likely , the Czechoslovak economy has been largely stagnant for 15 years then it is hard to see how domestic resources could be enough . |
| 19 | Internal migration within Britain has been largely responsible for these trends , with the level of net immigration to the South rising from 24 000 a year in 1971/73 to 45–50 000 a year by the end of the 1970s and rising steadily since 1981 to reach 69 000 in 1985/6 ( figure 8.2 ) . |
| 20 | The pub has been largely unchanged for 100 years but owners Bass took advantage of development planned in the next door antiques market to announce a drastic redevelopment . |
| 21 | Obviously we do n't deal with incoming , but holidays for the U K residents , yes that 's a fairly major part of our business , and certainly has been pretty successful in recent weeks . |
| 22 | It is evident — and I have emphasized the fact — that new political ideas have very often been formulated in direct response to the situations confronted by movements , parties and political leaders ; and the political thought of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has been exceptionally fertile in this respect . |
| 23 | But as a master of the ‘ sound bite ’ quote he has been surprisingly unconvincing in this campaign . |
| 24 | Robson Rhodes has been equally uncompromising with some of its former clients . |
| 25 | Since these are being funded from new money ( the National Science Foundation will continue to fund basic research from its existing money ) , the reaction of the Swiss research community has been broadly favourable to these plans for oriented research . |
| 26 | But in any case it has been clearly apparent to all fieldworking anthropologists for at least sixty years that the various kinds of performance which have , in the past , been assigned to the categories " magic " , " religion " , " magico-religious " , are expressions of artistic creativity rather than misguided attempts to control the material world by mechanical means . |
| 27 | He has been similarly evasive in answering questions about his marital fidelity and marijuana use . |
| 28 | This does not imply that there has been fierce opposition — indeed , the vote in favour of the merger has been nearly unanimous at each meeting . |
| 29 | And the Labour Party has been remarkably silent about this lack of trade union affiliation . |
| 30 | It is also true that the religious practice of those who attend vocational schools has been significantly inferior to those who attended catholic secondary schools , at least in the 1970s ( Nic Ghiolla Phadraig 1980 ) . |