Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [adj] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been extensive work on the psychology of language ( Campbell and Smith , 1976 ; Gerver and Sinaiko , 1978 ) , but with a greater emphasis on language as an interpersonal communication vehicle rather than language as a supporter of thinking . |
| 2 | The bones come from the remains of small mammals apparently trapped in a pitfall cut into chalk , and there has been extensive alteration on both the enamel and the bone , with surface flaking on the vole molars ( Fig. 1.13 A , B ) and incisors ( Fig. 1.13 C , D ) . |
| 3 | Where the reference was automatic ( £1,000 or less only being involved ) Ord 19 , r 6 provides that no solicitors ' charges or litigant in person costs may be awarded except the costs which were stated on the summons or which would have been stated on the summons if the claim had been for a liquidated sum , the costs of enforcing the award , and such further costs as the arbitrator may direct where there has been unreasonable conduct on the part of the opposite party in relation to the proceedings or the claim therein . |
| 4 | ( 9 ) A licensing board may refuse to renew a licence provisionally granted under subsection ( 1 ) or ( 2 ) above if the board considers that there has been unreasonable delay on the part of the applicant in completing the premises . |
| 5 | In recent years there has been increasing emphasis on the importance of training for staff at all levels in libraries of all kinds but apart from a circular letter sent out by The Library Association in 1976 , and two publications on the subject , one in 1977 and another in 1978 , there have been no systematic attempts to assess overall provision of training in the UK . |
| 6 | There is no presumption that monopoly is necessarily bad , and the Commission is charged to investigate whether or not the monopoly acts against the public interest , a brief that may be widely interpreted though in recent years there has been increasing emphasis on the ‘ maintenance and promotion of effective competition ’ . |
| 7 | In Scotland , the lack of development of Elderly Mentally Infirm Homes and the failure to implement the recommendations of the Timbury Report has meant that there has been increasing pressure on local authorities to care for " the mentally confused " ( the SWSG term ) and problems getting people into psychiatric care as they deteriorate . |
| 8 | Over the years there has been much debate on the fusion of the two branches of the profession . |
| 9 | There has been much debate on the imbalance in food and drink . |
| 10 | While there has been much research on the short term memory system of the type used to , eg , remember telephone numbers , relatively little is known about the nature of temporary memory for information which is held in the focus of attention during reading and conversation ( ‘ foregrounded' information ) . |
| 11 | During the last decade , there has been much research on the effect on economic performance in Western industrialised countries of the structure of and the relations between the main economic institutions . |
| 12 | Although there has been much research on the determination of asset prices , there has been little research on what determines the volume of turnover in asset markets . |
| 13 | There has been real rudeness on the part of poll tax Patten , if I may use that unparliamentary way of describing him , but everybody knows who I mean . |
| 14 | There has been little work on the pathogenesis of migrating larvae of S. equinus . |
| 15 | There has been little discussion on the necessary degree of probability of a kind of damage occurring . |
| 16 | The biggest daily peak comes around 5.00 pm , as homes switch on before industry switches off : There has been little research on the way consumers would respond to the various kinds of incentive that could be built into the electricity price structure . |
| 17 | Although there has been much research on the determination of asset prices , there has been little research on what determines the volume of turnover in asset markets . |
| 18 | Within this , there has been great emphasis on attaining detailed ( often numerical ) standards . |
| 19 | It is incontrovertible that there has been long-continued subsidence on many oceanic atolls . |
| 20 | It has been typical weather on Britain 's south coast this August . |
| 21 | The other generating company , PowerGen , has been burning orimulsion on an experimental basis under less strict control regulations in force at the time of licensing . |
| 22 | One of the sad side-effects of industrial action during the early years of the implementation of ISS has been that work on improving the teacher-parent partnership has been more neglected by teachers than anyone initially expected . |
| 23 | There has been less debate on those here , and I guess that over the two days of the debate there will still be less . |
| 24 | Recently there has been more emphasis on shore-based facilities , and a fishing pier , fish drying factory and ice plant have been established at Breasclete on Loch Roag in Lewis as one of the Board 's biggest strategic projects . |
| 25 | In recent years there has been more emphasis on the objectives of library services , and less upon quantitative measures . |
| 26 | ‘ There has been enormous pressure on this , and it has all come from California . |
| 27 | There has been some standardisation on input pulse widths and in general , pulse widths of 0.75mS to 2.2mS will produce an output shaft rotation of about 180 degrees . |
| 28 | There has been some progress on the Museum . |
| 29 | While there has been some work on aspects of constitutions — particularly voting rules — only very recently has there been a return to the constitutional perspective associated with the classical constitutional theory associated with Montesquieu and Madison . |
| 30 | In recent years there has been some awareness on the part of planners of the role of rural planning policies in exaggerating the scarcity of rural housing and achieving comparatively little for those in greatest housing need . |