Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Controlling current spending by local authorities has been central government 's major headache ever since it decided in 1961 that local government expenditure was part of public expenditure and therefore should be controlled by the Treasury . |
| 2 | Since last November the average settlements recorded by Rewards ' clients has been 5 p.c . |
| 3 | One of the world 's greatest classical violinists has been surprising audiences at a top JAZZ club . |
| 4 | The biggest event in recent months has been full sectorisation and the change of name from Provincial to Regional Railways . |
| 5 | The running of multiple sessions has been another means of saving which , though not always a problem , has led to truncated teaching sessions , late-coming and absenteeism on the part of teachers and pupils . |
| 6 | In his biography of the earl of Pembroke , however , Dr Phillips has effectively disproved this notion and shown the baronial conciliators to have been royal supporters , rather than independents . |
| 7 | This was because those steps had been reasonable ones to take even though they had in the event aggravated the losses . |
| 8 | By any normal standards , the Al Fayed brothers had been rich men for perhaps a decade or even two . |
| 9 | The first few months had been sheer bliss . |
| 10 | Then the doctrine common to all ages and nations had been that insolvency was a crime , and that the debtor might be properly made to pay in person the penalty for his offence . |
| 11 | My words have been grubby confetti , faded , tacky , blown far |
| 12 | Oxfords and brogue styles have been standard office issue for most of this century , but in the last 30 years the loafer has — thanks to its American and Italian perfectors — become a relaxed and stylish alternative to lace-ups , but there are purists who still harbour doubts about its suitability for the boardroom . |
| 13 | But England 's recent games against both nations have been full Tests and the squad will include those available England players not selected by the Lions . |
| 14 | The Greeks and the Jews have been such peoples and produced such thinkers . |
| 15 | But some are also saying , it 's been a missed opportunity to make a more radical shake up to a shadow cabinet where some members performances have been notable lack lustre . |
| 16 | Up to now , most borders have been French imports , but this year a company has come into being which designs and manufactures borders in this country . |
| 17 | Thereafter , their books have been follow-up studies of this second group of children . |
| 18 | ‘ The argument for the reformers has been that punishment simply does not work . |
| 19 | The effect of falling school rolls and DES cuts in teacher-training quotas has been some reduction in the numbers of students on courses ; however , recruitment in 1981 was still considerable and , in 1981 , the polytechnics had 1,300 students enrolled on to teacher-training courses . |
| 20 | THINKING , talking and working along European lines has been second nature to Mike Ward for many years now . |
| 21 | This image of a pion transmuting was as important to particle physics as Rutherford 's discovery of the transmutation of the elements had been 40 years earlier . |
| 22 | " This would have been a much larger sum if the salesmen had been any good . " |
| 23 | Since the use of unit trusts as a way of paying bonuses to employees came to an end , vouchers have been attracting attention . |
| 24 | The main producing areas have been Central Wales , north-west Wales ( Llanwrst ) , the Lake District , the Isle of Man ( Lamplugh , 1903 ) and the Southern Uplands of Scotland ( Leadhills ) . |
| 25 | The contractors have been clearing earth back there for landscaping . |
| 26 | In a world where few computer companies have been good computer users , IBM 's increasing tendency to practise what it preaches has helped maintain its advantage . |
| 27 | The companies have been arch rivals ever since and it 's only fitting now that the two main rivals in the so-called ‘ old school trainers ’ wars are Adidas and Puma . |
| 28 | If history is any guide , the average length of a recession in the past 60 years has been 18 months , with the average bear market wiping out about half the gain made during the bull market it succeeded . |
| 29 | The dominant linguistic school over the last thirty years has been generative linguistics which has its foundation in Chomsky 's revolutionary Syntactic Structures ( Chomsky , 1957 ) . |
| 30 | What she has known most intimately these last years has been intense pain . |