Example sentences of "been [adj] development " in BNC.
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| 1 | There have been scientific developments , of course , in chemistry , but perhaps it 's seen now as being more important in the context of the contribution it 's making to other important areas such as biology , environmental science and so forth . |
| 2 | However , although there have been tremendous developments in this field there remain many unanswered questions . |
| 3 | There have been serious developments . |
| 4 | 1421–2 finds him once more using a dialogue convention to describe his woes , and it is now evident that there have been serious developments in the interim . |
| 5 | Recently there have been serious developments pertaining to the activities of the group known as the Mandela Football Club which have raised great concern within the mass democratic movement and struggling people as a whole . |
| 6 | In spite of this , there has been serious developments and in this year , and they 'll be fully in place next year . |
| 7 | Interestingly , there have been rapid developments in the recognition of oriental languages ( e.g. Japanese , Chinese and Korean ) . |
| 8 | There have been rapid developments in techniques for the storage , manipulation , and retrieval of data , using new technology . |
| 9 | ‘ There have been major developments in the NHS in the three years since the advisory council was set up and new avenues for discussing possible changes have been developed , ’ said Lord Fraser . |
| 10 | In the process area , there have been major developments in catalysts for polypropylene manufacture and in the technology for making chlorine and also ammonia — both very mature products indeed on the face of it but where the story has by no means ended , even after a century . |
| 11 | There has also been considerable development in sail design in recent years with the result that sails are now far more controllable than the earlier types which resembled blown-out bedsheets . |
| 12 | There has been considerable development in housing since the creation of the LDDC in 1981 . |
| 13 | In Britain there has been considerable development of teaching aids for online education and training . |
| 14 | Secondly , since Rookes v. Barnard there has been considerable development in the contractual context of the doctrine of ‘ economic duress , ’ and in this context it is clear that although a threat to break a contract is ‘ illegitimate ’ it will not amount to duress unless it goes beyond commercial pressure and amounts to ‘ coercion of the will . ’ |
| 15 | Although all of us are deeply concerned to know precisely what happened in East Timor , will she bear it in mind that , since Indonesia took over East Timor a few years ago , there has been considerable development of the infrastructure in that country , and that , although no one condones that massacre , we must know what has been going on before we adopt the language that we heard from the Labour party ? |
| 16 | There have been important developments in social research in the 1980s , one of which is the growth of feminist research ( Roberts 1981 ) . |
| 17 | In the last decade there have been dramatic developments in the treatment of infertility and artificial reproductive techniques . |
| 18 | There have been impressive developments of audio-visual aids recently and you might consider some of them if you 're staging an ambitious project . |
| 19 | Over recent years , there have been various developments in health care planning with the aim of better meeting the needs of particular populations . |
| 20 | However in the mid 1970 's a position detection scheme which used the motor windings as sensors was proposed ( Frus and Kuo , 1976 ; Jufer , 1976 ) , and since that time there has been steady development of the basic idea . |
| 21 | There will of course have been new developments but I am confident that little will have changed in the fundamental agenda of those truly concerned about the health of their nation . |
| 22 | There have been other developments which point to an overlap between civil and military use or nuclear power . |
| 23 | who has been Senior Development Officer responsible for the Central Support Unit and co-ordinating the Advanced Courses Development Programme , is undertaking an evaluation of the programme and will be in contact with selected centres in due course . |
| 24 | However , there have been significant developments to strengthen the accountability of administrative agencies to society 's representatives , some more revolutionary than others . |