Example sentences of "has [been] [adj] in [adj] [noun] " 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 | Photographic recording of naevi and use of these photographs to detect change suggesting development of melanoma has been essential in this study . |
| 3 | The attack on a dichotomy of form and content has been persistent in modern criticism ; to change so much as a word , the argument runs , is to change the meaning as well . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Alcohol has been available in various pubs and discos in Edinburgh from 7am until 5am the following morning . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A statement issued by Glaxo says : ’ The company has consistently denied it has been negligent in any way in relation to the supply of Myodil , it voluntarily withdrew the product in 1987 , as it had been superceded by new products and technology . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But , despite the potential , Britain has been tentative in expanding hospital services into the home , although the distress caused to children who spend long periods in hospital has led to some developments in acute paediatric care at home . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | To conclude , in order to examine an area which is rarely focused upon in itself , it has been necessary in this chapter artificially to abstract the object , considering it in rather universalistic terms , and in relation to a perhaps overdrawn dichotomy with language . |
| 12 | Its impact has been greatest in personal injuries litigation and matrimonial proceedings and in the defence of those charged with serious criminal offences . |
| 13 | Recently it has been well-aired in this country through broadcasts and festivals ; enough to form an initial overall view . |
| 14 | The idea that teachers should adopt a research perspective in their teaching has been current in educational thinking ( in Britain at least ) for a good number of years , associated in particular with the work of Stenhouse and Elliott ( for example , Stenhouse 1975 ; Elliott 1981 ) . |
| 15 | The decision in Morgan has been influential in related areas of law and in some other jurisdictions . |
| 16 | Johnson 's work merits this special position both because it has been influential in this country — Bankowski and Mungham ( 1976 ) use it , for example , and it routinely appears on ‘ English Legal System ’ booklists — and also because he explicitly takes issue with ideologically determined empiricist and common sense definitions of professionals in terms of the ‘ traits ’ which they possess . |
| 17 | Business at Texas has been disappointing in recent weeks after a good start to the year , chairman Cyril Stein said . |
| 18 | The take-up has been disappointing in some respects , with the most highly motivated members attending several courses . |
| 19 | This , in theory , saves lives on the other side — a concern that has been rare in recent wars , but seems to carry some weight in this one . |
| 20 | And some of the buildup play has been tremendous in this period of time . |
| 21 | The whole instrument has been edge-bound in attractive ivoroid , which is destined to turn slightly yellow with the passing of time . |
| 22 | Despite the conclusion of a Comprehensive Programme of Integration in 1971 , progress on this front has been pitiful in many respects compared with that achieved within the EEC . |
| 23 | Chief Buthelezi , one of the few black leaders inside South Africa who has been consistent in opposing sanctions , will address a fringe meeting at the Conservative conference in Blackpool next Tuesday . |
| 24 | Although I deeply regret the closures of pits for mainly economic reasons as that creates problems , the increase in productivity has been helpful in that respect . |
| 25 | Mrs Thatcher has been fortunate in that retirements of several senior personnel in the early 1980s gave her the opportunity to influence promotions ; there were thirteen appointments as Permanent Secretary in 1982 alone and she has had a hand in appointing the great majority of Permanent and Assistant Permanent Secretaries since 1979 . |
| 26 | The critic as advocate has been fortunate in twentieth-century France , where a climate of culture has brought art and literature together ; also art and philosophy , in the case of Jean-Paul Sartre 's advocacy of Giacometti , in whose emaciated figure sculptures the philosopher saw a metaphor of human struggle , even , as he wrote in an article in Les Temps modernes in 1948 , ‘ the fleshless martyrs of Buchenwald ’ . |
| 27 | Morne Du Plessis has been involved in private work in this area . |
| 28 | His group has been involved in parallel computing since the early 1980s ; software produced at CalTech has become a de facto standard for the various ‘ hypercube ’ machines manufactured in the United States . |
| 29 | Ever since his election as ARFU president in 1988 , French has been involved in many discussions with South African rugby officials assisting and advising them in their aim once again to be welcomed back into the international playing fraternity . |
| 30 | He has attended numerous meetings and social events , and has been involved in many projects . |