Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There has been specific targeting of areas like the Shankill and Ballymurphy areas of West Belfast , ’ said one detective . |
| 2 | For , though there has been useful progress in bringing Co-operation to attention as a credible option , it remains in the United Kingdom , far more than in some western democracies , an exceptional way of undertaking an industrial venture . |
| 3 | One aspect of this discretion relates to the time limit for making an application for judicial review under RSC Order 53 : s. 31(6) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 allows the court to refuse leave or to refuse relief if there has been undue delay in making the application and that the granting of relief would , amongst other things , be ‘ detrimental to good administration ’ . |
| 4 | The allegation that there has been undue secrecy seems untrue . |
| 5 | The membership of an executive , has been one member from each county . |
| 6 | Since this paper was written , however , there has been one case in English law worth noting . |
| 7 | There has been one crash at Crowfield , it was on Anglia News . |
| 8 | The highest priced work is the leaf from the Arenberg Psalter with illuminations on both sides , for which he paid about $520,000 in 1990 , admitting that he has been one factor in the rise in prices in single sheet miniatures at auction : ‘ Prices have climbed enormously because museum directors realise more and more that the history of painting before 1450 , and even into the sixteenth-century is to a very large extent found in illuminated manuscripts ’ . |
| 9 | In Britain there has been a notable tension between the demands of law and order ideology and the practical impossibility of increasing prison populations exponentially , and this tension has been one factor encouraging the phenomenon of ‘ bifurcation ’ ( see Chapter 1 ) . |
| 10 | Security has been tight at the court , but there has been one threat against a juror , a bomb threat against the judge and now the firebombing directed at a key witness . |
| 11 | There has been one miracle already and that has been the hand put back on . ’ |
| 12 | This has been one reason for the increasing prominence of work groups at local level often demanding greater autonomy and a more active role in policy formulation than that provided by the official union structure . |
| 13 | Excessive schedule length has been one reason for the use of the faceted approach in updating major schemes . |
| 14 | Lack of public awareness has been one reason for the spread of the killer disease . |
| 15 | ‘ Autumn is my season , twilight is my hour and all my life has been one chain of related twilights ’ , he has written . |
| 16 | Despite appointing a succession of managers his only return has been one League Cup triumph . |
| 17 | For year two , there has been one death so far . |
| 18 | Reducing prices to under £10 has been one method . |
| 19 | The Urban Programme has been one policy instrument through which the government has been able , if only at the margins , to influence the position of black people in the major conurbations . |
| 20 | Spink , who has been first choice since regaining the No 1 spot from Les Sealey in March , said : ‘ There was a time when my future seemed in jeopardy but things have turned my way again . ’ |
| 21 | All are back with Parramatta and their father Les has been first grade manager . |
| 22 | There has been new legislation introduced in the form of the European six pack and the cost regulations but this legislation will only be effective if it is enforced . |
| 23 | Where there has been new investment it has been financed largely from income generated in Africa and re-invested locally . |
| 24 | My preparations are well advanced ; but there has been other business to attend to here . ’ |
| 25 | IT HAS been two years since sultry singer Sade was last in the spotlight . |
| 26 | Though there has been good response in the first two areas , it is in the third that the brief hints in the text have been totally transcended through the amazing growth of lay groups meeting for prayer or study , representing various degrees of organization or none , some purely Catholic but most of them ecumenically open . |
| 27 | There has been good response from advertisers resulting in relatively small expenses being incurred . |
| 28 | The court will look to its own law to determine whether there has been good service , sufficient in a common law system to found jurisdiction ; the same law will identify the steps required to set running the time which must elapse before a default judgment can be entered ; and the same law will , in some countries , apply to determine whether service was so defective that a default judgment must be set aside . |
| 29 | THE STRIKE at Britain 's waterworks has been good news for a sheltered workshop in Watford . |
| 30 | The competitive procurement policy of the Ministry of Defence has been good news not only for the Ministry and the taxpayer but for the yards . |