Example sentences of "[verb] been [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AEA 's Commercial and Planning Director , James Bretherton , commented that the ‘ MMC Report has been useful external validation of what we are trying to achieve . |
| 2 | There has been extensive theoretical discussion about how this affects the Kolmogorov result , suggesting that with n a little larger than 5/3 but not exactly known . |
| 3 | Penelope Lord ( Mrs Baines ) since 1988 has been Principal Clinical Psychologist with the North Devon Health Authority , based in Barnstaple . |
| 4 | Cardinal Johannes Willebrands , head of the Vatican Secretariat for Christian Unity , said : ‘ There has been real ecclesial community . |
| 5 | Although promotion slipped from our grasp early on , our fight for survival over the last seven months has been real nail-biting stuff . |
| 6 | ‘ It is not just for a blow to be struck against Iraq when Saddam 's main victim has been innocent Iraqi people , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Mayrhofen is one of the most popular of the Tyrolean resorts and has been welcoming British guests for many years . |
| 8 | This very friendly family-owned hotel has been welcoming British guests for over 30 years . |
| 9 | There has been regular live coverage of the House on Westminster Live from 3.05 pm till about 3.50 pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays ( including Prime Minister 's Questions ) and occasional other live coverage of both the Chamber and select committees . |
| 10 | For as long as I can remember , it has been standard medical teaching that teething of babies causes no symptoms . |
| 11 | Where there has been serious political conflict , schoolgirls have often been involved in protests and boycotts . |
| 12 | Outside the EC there has been direct scientific collaboration with scientists in California , in Memphis , Tennessee , and in Moscow . |
| 13 | But the main focus has been networked distributed computing , which does n't provide the same levels of performance or fault-resilience — and it 's in this aspect that the Sequent customers are most interested . |
| 14 | So great is the slaughter that there has been enormous public concern and since 1978 my colleagues and I have studied the effect of road casualties on the toads that breed in the lake at Llandrindod Wells , in mid-Wales . |
| 15 | In recent years , however , there has been rapid economic development in parts of the South , notably in South-East Asia , while core economies , including those of the United States and Great Britain , have suffered recession . |
| 16 | Probably anticipating the enhancing of the already considerable temperature that might ensue from a stretch of proven hell-raising , Pukwana called for a blues , and set about declaring his intent with that impassioned alto cry ( the instrument in his hands displaying the weight of the tenor as well as the wild , wayward quality of the higher horn ) that has been thrilling British audiences since the Sixties . |
| 17 | The Pentagon is particulary worried that Iraqi anti-aircraft radar has been tracking allied planes . |
| 18 | However , the key factor has been domestic agricultural policies which protect indigenous agriculture for security or political reasons . |
| 19 | In recent years , there has been considerable private sector intervention in secondary level education and vocational and technical training , mainly by the large mining companies . |
| 20 | For , roughly , the following utterance will be true ( 10 ) There is a man on Mars just in case at the time of speaking there is a man on Mars , whereas ( 11 ) will be true just in case at some time prior to the time of speaking ( 10 ) would have been true : ( 11 ) There was a man on Mars There has been considerable philosophical interest in expressions that have this context-dependent property , like demonstratives , first and second person pronouns , and morphemes indicating tense . |
| 21 | Recently , there has been considerable national publicity and extensive media coverage demonstrating increasing public concern about self-medication , and about the adverse effects of ‘ multi-prescription ’ . |
| 22 | Yet as we shall see in chapters 4 and 5 , there has been considerable theoretical work ( e. g. by Finsinger and Vogelsang , 1981 ) on socially efficient bonus structures , relating pay to social surplus created . |
| 23 | Whilst there has been considerable theoretical work in the area , there has been little empirical study of either state , or colleague control of professional practice . |
| 24 | In addition there has been considerable cultural experimentation , with the result that what is considered desirable in some places is not in others , where its consumption may indeed be taboo . |
| 25 | There has been considerable public concern about reduced hypoglycaemia awareness in patients taking human insulin . |
| 26 | Claire has been Scottish Open champion three times , National Champion seven times and is the only person to have won the under 16s and under 19s in the same season . |
| 27 | Ottakars ' growth has been exceptional Managing director James Heneage said that , following a 17% rise in sales on a like-for-like basis last year , the group was poised for expansion . |
| 28 | Many of us will find skiing an irresistible lure in the coming season — all of the big operators and many of the small ones are honouring no-surcharge guarantees ; and there has been heavy early season snow . |
| 29 | I liked to think it was because they thought he 'd failed , that our survival in the mountains had been his humiliation , but I would have to admit this might have been mere wishful thinking . |
| 30 | Thus what would once have been typical neurotic conflicts between the ego and the id are much more likely to present themselves today as delinquency and compulsive acting-out . |