Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] has been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result there has been bitter criticism of the local authorities and much disappointment among the disabled and their families . |
| 2 | However , despite a varied programme there has been great difficulty in gathering support for the other functions and indeed the last one had to be cancelled . |
| 3 | Though recent instruments like the new SZ zoom stereos are designed to be readily fitted to a range of different equipment there has been increasing demand in recent years for custom equipment and his has led to customer specific modular configurations for individual projects . |
| 4 | This unprincipled position was sharply attacked by the Irish News , the nationalist newspaper which has been standard reading for the Catholic community in the North for the best part of a century . |
| 5 | The policewoman who has been comforting James 's parents said his mother Denise was still ‘ shellshocked ’ by the loss . |
| 6 | Resident at Balbirnie House from day one has been managing director Eric Brown , who initiated the project . |
| 7 | Over the past decade there has been enormous progress in our understanding of how cells use calcium to regulate their activity . |
| 8 | In the Galloway there has been strong discrimination against red , to the extent that red animals have been falsely maligned as ‘ poor doers ’ , and today the red varieties probably have Devon , South Devon , Red Poll or Shorthorn blood . |
| 9 | Notwithstanding problems of this kind there has been undoubted improvement in VDU design and it has been speculated that trade union pressure for high design standards has been a major stimulus to companies marketing their products on the basis of user acceptability . " |
| 10 | In the area of assessment there has been considerable debate in recent years among Catholic teachers . |
| 11 | Amidst such massive coverage there has been little television interest in what ordinary people get out of sport . |
| 12 | I do not think that in either case there has been any failure in interpretation of the ideas proposed , but rather that accommodation has been too readily accorded . |
| 13 | Unfortunately Chairman there has been some polarization of opinion between the Norfolk and the Suffolk interests . |
| 14 | With the development of the NACAB policy of equal opportunities in recruitment there has been more awareness of this issue and considerable developments in recruitment practices have resulted . |
| 15 | Since early morning there has been intermittent drumming in different parts of the village and the echo rolls round the valley like the stifled rumblings of a caged lion . |
| 16 | In the past there has been considerable dispute between teachers and their employers over the teachers ' role in the collecting of dinner money and the supervision of children during the mid-day break . |
| 17 | Within generative phonology there has been much debate about whether one can put tonic ( ‘ primary ’ ) stress in the right place without referring to the non-linguistic context in which the speaker says something . |
| 18 | It is part of the explosion of interest in music there has been this century . |
| 19 | 21 In the past it has been standard practice to have exhibitions open only during normal office hours . |
| 20 | In the past it has been common wisdom that a major party will not suggest extreme policies , for to do so is to invite electoral defeat . |
| 21 | This is one reason there has been rampant speculation about foreign involvement in the bombings . |
| 22 | Mary Shirley , a new teacher in the Kent area , is another trail-blazer who has been stirring interest with her special classes for the elderly and their carers . |
| 23 | has responded to those by , for example , over this year there has been closed circuit television at one of the Park and Rides — I think it 's Thornhill — in consultation with the Police , and the Police have told us that that has reduced the number of crimes that have occurred and we have put |
| 24 | Mark Clayton 's cooking has progressed in the year he has been head chef at Eastwell Manor , near Ashford , Kent . |
| 25 | , Scientists at the Dutch Central Veterinary Institute claim to have isolated the cause of the Mystery Reproductive Syndrome ( MRS ) disease which has been sweeping pig herds across much of western Europe over the past few months , leading to the loss of up to 10 per cent of offspring in some herds . |
| 26 | For some time she has been head dancer of a troupe and has travelled extensively abroad , taking part in cabaret on land and aboard cruise ships . |
| 27 | Apart from these four principal strategies , there is one further experiment in Buxtehude over whose implementation there has been considerable controversy . |
| 28 | At the same time there has been strong pressure from MPs to allow the House of Commons to play a more effective role in these matters . |
| 29 | Since that time there has been active US lobbying among other Western nations against signature . |
| 30 | Widespread complaints of poor management and excessive service charges led to the establishment … [ of ] the " Nugee Committee " … at the same time there has been ever-increasing concern with the difficulties which confront leaseholders in selling leases whose outstanding periods have decreased significantly since their grant . |