Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] been [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last month Amnesty International called for all charges against him to be withdrawn and concluded : ‘ At every stage the behaviour of the authorities has been in open defiance of the authority of the courts and the rule of law . ’ |
| 2 | Most of my contact with other musicians has been with other improvising musicians , and to get to work with one of the major American composers on something like that was fascinating . |
| 3 | Local Management of Schools has been to many of our schools . |
| 4 | One important application for Markov models has been in automatic speech recognition ( ASR ) in which a speech signal is modelled as a probabilistic function of a ( hidden ) Markov chain . |
| 5 | About 90 per cent of development in the zones has been for industrial or warehouse use . |
| 6 | How texts achieve their effects has been of particular significance in the teaching of literature , including drama . |
| 7 | The exercise of these duties has been at all times , and remains , subject to the visitorial jurisdiction of the judges . |
| 8 | Mary says now : ‘ Accessing my past lives has been of great benefit and I 'm sure that if I 'd gone to an ordinary therapist , nothing would have been sorted out . ’ |
| 9 | The application of the spreading technique to oocytes has been of enormous benefit , just as in spermatocytes , in revealing intimate detail of pairing and other configurations at meiotic prophase . |
| 10 | As well as this , the trend over the past few years has been towards greater accountability from business in the form of information about matters other than profit and loss . |
| 11 | However , India produces some very good quality rugs , particularly in Kashmir , and the trend over the last few years has been towards finer and finer items . |
| 12 | At every C&P plant there is concern about energy conservation but emphasis in recent years has been on improving product quality — something which often uses more energy without increasing output . |
| 13 | The most dramatic shift in recent years has been from soft to underwire garments , which provide greater support and ‘ shape ’ . |
| 14 | The ‘ ship ’ is therefore dwarfed by the size of the ocean which is post-school education and training ; moreover it is an ocean which over the last ten or so years has been in unprecedented turmoil culminating in the hurricane represented by the 1988 Education Reform Act . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , governments have come to accept the extravagant version as a taboo , and , like many such myths , its influence over the years has been in inverse proportion to its constitutional validity . |
| 16 | Normal fluorescent tubes are familiar enough , but the main development in recent years has been in compact fluorescent lamps , which take the place of normal light bulbs . |
| 17 | The development of CD-ROM techniques has been of particular significance for students of texts : classics students can search the complete database of ancient literature by using the IBYCUS implementation of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae ; students of English can use the CD-ROM version of the Oxford English Dictionary to conduct searches which would take lifetimes if conducted on the twenty volumes of hard copy . |
| 18 | The development of study skills was implicitly or explicitly part of every proposal made for inclusion in the ESSE/L Project , and as we have seen , the major thrust of recent inservice developments has been in this area . |
| 19 | The best known use of zeolites has been as dehydrating agents — the so called molecular sieves — which can effectively filter out and hold on to water molecules thereby removing them from other liquids . |
| 20 | The improved relationships between the school , the parents , the child guidance service , social work and others has been of immense and profound benefit . |
| 21 | Generally , it seems the response of social services has been at individual crisis level , rather than reaching out to travellers . |
| 22 | The work of SCONUL in improving access to theses has been of considerable benefit in the communication of research results , but some work still remains . |
| 23 | At the same time it should be borne in mind that much of the recent growth in employment in the service industries h-as been in part-time work . |