Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] been very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SMALL businesses do not seem to know about the industrial building allowances introduced last November , and the uptake has been very disappointing , David Wilson , chairman of Wilson Bowden , the Midlands house-builder and developer , said yesterday . |
| 2 | He concludes that although developed during 25 years , progress has been very rapid , but in many fields there is still considerable scope for further empirical work . |
| 3 | ‘ The response has been very good , ’ he says . |
| 4 | We have been using these for only a number of weeks now , but the response has been very encouraging . |
| 5 | Over two thousand organisations receive it , your initial response has been very encouraging , and many people saying within the sector , that it is essential reading . |
| 6 | More than 20,000 copies have been distributed throughout the country and Langbaurgh Council 's chief tourism and leisure officer Paddy Corcoran said : ‘ Response has been very encouraging so far . ’ |
| 7 | But as Valerie Bransfield , personnel adviser , reports : ‘ The initial response has been very positive . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The recession has been very bad for our customers . |
| 9 | and Euston , I believe all those parish councils have written to the county surveyor , erm , wilfully the er H G V ban and saying how successful they think it is , now the proposals in this paper do n't have any particular effect on them , but I would want to pass on to the officers here in case it has n't erm quite registered , but this ban has been very much welcomed on the northern section of the A ten eighty eight where although it 's not a formal ban the affect on villages particular such as |
| 10 | No the experience has been very good you know , going through life all that time . |
| 11 | But the past year waiting for the auction has been very difficult . |
| 12 | The pound has been very strong recently , particularly in the United States , where they 've got a weak dollar , and we have to put over the message that there are tremendous deals to be had erm both in air fares and when you get here in terms of hotel rates erm and in terms of prices of food and so forth . |
| 13 | The effect of such trends on British manufacturing industry has been very serious . |
| 14 | The British car manufacturing industry has been very reluctant to catch up with the clean technology being offered and vehemently resisted pressure to adopt catalytic converters for many years , advocating instead an alternative technology known as the ‘ lean burn engine ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ The deal has been very good for football , ’ he says , ‘ and I believe that television is going to be accepted as a very important tool in the game 's administration . |
| 16 | Since 1976 , the flow of new investment has been very modest , and in some years negative . |
| 17 | Once his parents were able to reassure him that his mummy had been very ill for a while but now she was better but had to take medicine he became a much easier boy to handle and stopped urinating on the carpet . |
| 18 | Although other American sociologists such as Zurcher and Kirkpatrick have ( not uncritically ) applied Gusfield 's theory to contemporary anti-pornography movements , the most recent attempts at explaining the rise of groups such as the NVALA and the NFoL have been very critical of the theory of status defence . |
| 19 | specific points in the development of people , whilst that we recognise that the partners in practice was going to go into a quiet spell er something but we would run the risk if that happened on losing the expertise , the skill base that we 've got there and the undoubted qualities of the people within , we had to find a way in which we could use that skill base and other practice er of the practice and in fact that 's been quite successfully achieved in in recent months er with due diligence work for example er with legal support work is another example , when people in the insolvency practice have been very active on special science weeks ago tree . |
| 20 | The weather this winter has been very harsh with a lot of snow and wind . |
| 21 | Avedis Donabedian , an American pioneer of quality assurance in health care in the United States whose work has been very influential in the United Kingdom , modelled quality as a dynamic relationship between structure , process and outcomes . |
| 22 | Her work has been very much as ‘ back-room ’ for her husband in his political career , and jointly with him in their shared interests — two books on the church architecture of London and one on Northern Lazio in Italy . |
| 23 | ‘ This work has been very flexible and has fitted in very easily with holidays ’ . |
| 24 | Since 1860 , as far as we can tell , three items that were formerly alternants have been reclassified as categorical [ u ] items ( Patterson , 1860 ) ; thus , the speed of transfer has been very slow , and the set as a whole has been quite resistant to change . |
| 25 | The kind of supervision suggested by the college could be achieved by guardianship ; yet guardianship under the Act has been very little used . |
| 26 | The issue has been very much on the minds of some of the current councillors after the South Eastern Education and Library Board decided to place Lisburn above Bangor in the priority list for new library premises . |
| 27 | ‘ The VAT issue has been very important and that is why we have spent nearly five years on it . |
| 28 | We can conclude that the advertising campaign has been very successful : |
| 29 | A SAFETY training campaign has been very successful in driving down accidents at Taubmans ' coatings plants in Australia and New Zealand . |
| 30 | I think that attitude has been very bad for the industry as a whole . |