Example sentences of "[verb] been [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite appointing a succession of managers his only return has been one League Cup triumph . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | All are back with Parramatta and their father Les has been first grade manager . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | The average turnround for a passport application in the last year has been six working days . |
| 6 | IN THE Collectair office there has been much back correspondence to catch up on . |
| 7 | Amidst such massive coverage there has been little television interest in what ordinary people get out of sport . |
| 8 | For years the result has been frequent power blackouts for Orcadians as the birds ' elaborate home-making habits — incorporating everything from barbed wire and steel mesh to tin cans and nails — caused the electricity supply to short-circuit . |
| 9 | Middlesbrough-born Alf has been chief personnel officer with Middlesbrough council since 1974 and before that he worked for Teesside county borough council . |
| 10 | Allan Victor Jones , 51 , of Bangor , who has been chief fire officer of Gwynedd since 1989 is awarded the Queen 's Fire Service Medal . |
| 11 | That prospect has been worrying bond investors . |
| 12 | In recent years this department has been busier repaying savings to the public than attracting them . |
| 13 | Cramming in the goodies but keeping the price below the £19,250 tax barrier has been occupying car makers , Saab among them . |
| 14 | Resident at Balbirnie House from day one has been managing director Eric Brown , who initiated the project . |
| 15 | Since then the only world motorcycling champion to show promise on four wheels has been Venezuelan Johnny Cecetto . |
| 16 | Richard , who started work at the University in 1969 as assistant cook in the halls of residence , has been Assistant Catering Manager since 1973 , based at the Revis Barber and Dennis Bellamy Halls , where his deputy , head cook Ian Wade has been ruling the kitchens for 24 years . |
| 17 | The result has been that discount deals have proliferated . |
| 18 | The result has been that sea walls have had to take the brunt of the power of waves and currents at high tide , which erodes them and requires rebuilding on an ever larger scale . |
| 19 | A significant milestone has been that product revenues for the AViiON line finally surpassed those of the proprietary Eclipse MV products . |
| 20 | Much of the general comment has been that quality improvement is just common sense and that we have been doing it all of the time anyway . |
| 21 | A recurring complaint from industry has been that pension funds are too short-term orientated , to the detriment of the companies in whose shares they deal . |
| 22 | Most influential absentee has been top scorer Brett Angell . |
| 23 | Most influential absentee has been top scorer Brett Angell . |
| 24 | Similarly , Byers 's ( 1987 ) work in the Mount Everest National Park indicates that there has been less forest removal than envisaged and that shrubs/grassland and forested slopes below 4000 m OD are stable . |
| 25 | In the studies with gastrin and its analogues an often uncontrolled variable has been gastric acid secretion , although the presence of gastric acid is not essential for a colonic response as it is not abolished by total gastrectomy . |
| 26 | Children from Primary 3 upwards do have diaries to keep parents informed if there has been any homework set — but is rarely any until Primary 7 age . |
| 27 | In many cases the consequence has been large scale redundancy , and a reduction in size , or contraction , of the organisation . |
| 28 | , 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 . |
| 29 | The cost has been high interest rates — above German rates and 6 p.c. or 7 p.c. above our own inflation rate — at a time of deep recession . |
| 30 | Since that time there has been active US lobbying among other Western nations against signature . |