Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That has been successful Chair , during the course of the year , we 're three quarters of the way through , but our monitoring information shows that we 've easily reached that ten percent target , and that does fit in equally with the work we 'll be describing a bit later on , the Enterprise Agency is , is working on . |
| 2 | That has been monumental help , but it has not been just practical help . |
| 3 | Paralleling this has been increasing acceptance of artificial insemination by donor although little is known of how the private citizen and the community at large view this , in vitro fertilisation and other similar medical techniques . |
| 4 | One result of this has been that theology itself has become ecumenical in a fashion undreamt of a century ago , and many of the main fronts in theological debate and controversy now run across rather than along denominational boundaries . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Winter wheats are slightly backward because of cold weather , but the benefit of this has been disease-free crops with good root development . |
| 7 | After the trial Det Chief Supt Cooper said : ‘ I am entirely satisfied with the prosecution case and the trial ; this has been English justice at its best . ’ |
| 8 | Coupled to this has been careful control over costs . |
| 9 | The one responsible for putting together the JP233 since July 1985 has been Royal Ordnance 's Glascoed site : 1,000 acres of low-lying ground , with an obliging screen of hills on every side , deep in the countryside of mid-Gwent . |
| 10 | This had been good fortune , as they had not been aware that it was a ‘ protected ’ aircraft , but Carrington arranged in any case for the record of their flight to be blotted from the squadron 's sortie book . |
| 11 | The effects of this have been massive job losses , the casualization of the labour force , a profound erosion of trade union power , and the virtual cessation of training to replace human capital in the form of skilled labour . |
| 12 | I 'm the first to admit the English have been utter bastards . |
| 13 | For too long , the British have been reluctant Europeans — for understandable reasons , because our strong sense of national identity has been shaped by our exceptional history . |
| 14 | Well out of order , the thing is if that 'd been , if that 'd been another troop trying to do it to him , there would of been , there would of been shit |
| 15 | To celebrate Britain 's rich heritage of mazes , 1991 has been designated Year of the Maze — a venture backed by the English Tourist Board and the Maze Society . |
| 16 | The total in 1991 had been 256,112 asylum applicants , chiefly from Yugoslavia , Romania and Turkey ( an increase of over 30 per cent on the 1990 figure of 193,063 ) , and 221,995 ethnic Germans . |
| 17 | The GCC six had been interested parties from the very beginning . |
| 18 | This is nowhere more so than in West Germany , where some 800 pedestrianised areas exist with a mean size of 2,500 metres.So widespread has been this conversion of former car streets that the city centres of large German cities are effectively completely given over to foot traffic.36 Britain has been very much slower to recognise the benefits that pedestrianisation can bring . |
| 19 | Totalling fewer than twenty and confined to a minority of townships , they can hardly have represented more than a fraction of the real number of demises , most of which were likely to have been annual tenancies anyway . |
| 20 | Furthermore , an additional factor is likely to have been British support for Bridei , king of the Picts , as the son of Bili , former king of Strathclyde . |
| 21 | However , current research shows that early humans did not generally rely on a meat diet , but that plant foods were at least as important : far from being mighty hunters , early humans are more likely to have been opportunist scavengers . |
| 22 | I remember once we was called out on the actual called out for actual sighting of s there was supposed to have been some activity over er Bentley so we was all called out and the assembly point was at Tolbertstead 's works in Green Lane and we assembled er in the , at Tolberstead 's and then we was sent out as search groups er from there right across Bentley . |
| 23 | All three had been prominent opposition figures in the period before November 1989 . |
| 24 | These had been regular church-goers in the Caribbean but had not felt at home in the more restrained worship of the British churches , and some had felt cold-shouldered by the white members . |
| 25 | If these had been real Tag Heuer watches they 'd have been worth thousands , but in fact at around 25 pounds each they 're a rip-off . |
| 26 | These have been possible questions to ask for some time . |
| 27 | Although planning has a number of wider social implications for rural areas , many of these have been unintentional side-effects of physical planning policies . |
| 28 | The best installations have demonstrated what is already known — that gasifiers can be made to work ; the worst have been total failures . |
| 29 | 1992 has been another year in which we have had to work hard to live within our means . |
| 30 | 1992 has been another year of fruitful cooperation with TRANSAID . |