Example sentences of "has [be] slow " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we have a government which has been slow to worry whether the people there die of Aids . |
| 2 | The corporate identity image has been slow to disappear , with the old standard liveries lingering even on Intercity services . |
| 3 | Industry , at least in America and Europe , has been slow to show interest . |
| 4 | It is unsure of its policies , and has been slow to recruit members and persuade them that the time for talks has come . |
| 5 | BR has been slow to exploit the opportunities now opening up . |
| 6 | Dill has been slow to win its place in the English kitchen . |
| 7 | However , the task of setting EC wide standards remains daunting and progress has been slow . |
| 8 | Progress since then has been slow but the principle has remained the same . |
| 9 | There have been few attempts to portray mental handicap in the theatre , and despite its progressive nature , the theatre has been slow to respond to the challenge on offer . |
| 10 | Whereas the bulk of America has been slow to latch on to new British acts , the more European attitudes of New York welcomed anything English and wielding a guitar . |
| 11 | The vogue for advocacy and self-advocacy has been slow to develop for older people . |
| 12 | Shelduck first bred in Sussex in 1904 but , although numbers established themselves round Chichester and Pagham Harbours fairly quickly , colonisation of the rest of the county has been slow and the breeding population is still mainly concentrated around these two harbours . |
| 13 | Taken in conjunction with what follows they show the development of UK practice , although they also illustrate that progress has been slow and uncertain , and that user education is still generally a peripheral service in most libraries . |
| 14 | Recognition of the need to invest in both types of research has been slow to materialise possibly because other pressures tended to shut it out , but also because of the remarkably esoteric image which University research workers have given themselves . |
| 15 | So far , Britain has been slow to implement a nationwide recycling programme which will take into account all possible methods of re-using raw materials . |
| 16 | The idea of using this matter-of-fact item as a matter of fashion has been slow to catch on in this country . |
| 17 | If the industry has been slow to embrace some commercial technological advances , there are publishers who see electronic publishing as the future . |
| 18 | While recovery in the US economy has been slow , it has been a recovery nonetheless . |
| 19 | Church growth thinking has been slow to come to terms with the problem of nominality within existing churches , and has consequently given the impression that mission is simply making more and more people to become like ourselves . |
| 20 | Gough has been slow to respond to a groin injury which has plagued him since September and has been sidelined since the win over Celtic on November 7 . |
| 21 | This latter aspect has developed without knowledge of BSL and has led to an uninflected form of signing which has been slow to change . |
| 22 | The evidence is that since the thirties women have begun to stand for political positions in their own right but progress has been slow . |
| 23 | Although a number of surveys have shown that practice has been slow to change , the ground has at least been prepared for change . |
| 24 | Such lack of fundamental change is perhaps understandable because , since the eighteenth century , the rate of economic growth in Britain has been slow , a rate which influenced and was influenced by the nature of the institutional and social system . |
| 25 | Last Thursday , the paper says , Pierre-Francois Couture , the Postal Ministry 's representative on the France Telecom board , asked the operator 's managers to think about a spin-off , reminding them of the ‘ increasingly aggressive competitive telecommunications environment , ’ pointing out that the French digital cellular market has been slow to take off . |
| 26 | The West , Ukrainians feel , has been slow — just like Russia — to realise that they are serious about independence . |
| 27 | America , despite ( or perhaps because of ) its smaller state sector , has been slow to see the point of it . |
| 28 | The growth of such radios has been slow throughout Africa because of government control of communication networks . |
| 29 | But the President has been slow to name even an acting director . |
| 30 | Hence , though change was taking place its pace has been slow , and it is unlikely there will be any fundamentally new pattern of population distribution in the urban hierarchy in the foreseeable future . |