Example sentences of "have been [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such monomania has been useful to warriors since long before the silicon age . |
| 2 | The ETB has been critical of hotel telephone call charges for many years . |
| 3 | ‘ Arthritis has been good to Arthur ’ |
| 4 | Furthermore , it has been good for morale to have an ongoing project , the success of which has not been tied to the everyday ups and downs in the hurly-burly of school life . |
| 5 | On balance , I believe that Britain 's membership of the EEC has been of some benefit in terms of the home market which she has gained and will continue to gain as and when her partners honour their commitments to complete the Single Market ; however , as should be clear from the figures quoted in Chapter 5 , the assertion that EEC membership has been good for Britain is open to question . |
| 6 | ‘ The positive image has been good for business , ’ Norton says . |
| 7 | He said : ’ I 'm aware that what we 're saying may be used but we do believe it is the most energising thing that has happened in my 21 years as a GP It has been good for care , public health and management . ’ |
| 8 | The year has been good for programme sales , particularly overseas where sales increased more than a half to £18.8m . |
| 9 | when a partner has been guilty of misconduct likely to be harmful to the firm 's business ; |
| 10 | Section 40 , like section 23 of the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 ( paragraph 16–26 above ) , deals with the situation where A commits an offence because of the fault of B. It enables B to be convicted where A has been guilty of conduct which either was an offence under the Consumer Protection Act or would have been one but for one of the statutory defences . |
| 11 | Part of the blame for that has to be accepted by the industry , which has been guilty of complacency . |
| 12 | Wimbledon has been dull without McEnroe from the gossip point of view . |
| 13 | ‘ Secondly , the post of organiser at the Whyte House , is ACE-funded and has been vacant since December 1992 and all attempts to fill it have proved unsuccessful . |
| 14 | The post has been vacant for months and the lack of suitable candidates puzzled officials as the job proved the starting point for such politicians as Mr Chris Patten , Mr Iain Macleod and Mr Reginald Maudling . |
| 15 | The post has been vacant for months and the lack of suitable candidates puzzled officials as the job proved the starting point for such politicians as Mr Chris Patten , Mr Iain Macleod and Mr Reginald Maudling . |
| 16 | ‘ The course has been invaluable in terms of awareness and spotting hazards . ’ |
| 17 | It has been available since September 1987 , with the first examinations in summer 1989 . |
| 18 | Any management training that has been available for ryokan has been almost entirely ‘ in house ’ up to now , although the whole area of hotel management training is being rethought in Japan . |
| 19 | Here , too , the cassava variety is the result of breeding work at IITA which has been available to farmers since 1978 . |
| 20 | Although its standard Informix SE relational database engine has been available on DOS since 1984 , Informix Corp appears to have made little impact on the lower end of the market , concentrating instead on its core Unix business . |
| 21 | This type of index is used in the Indexed Sequential Access Method ( ISAM ) that has been available on IBM mainframe computer systems since the late sixties , and is now available on some microcomputers . |
| 22 | The full code has been available on InterNet for the last two months and was to go on CompuServe last week , according to Dr Dobbs ' editor Jonathan Erickson . |
| 23 | A new cure has been available in Europe for two or three years , he says coldly . |
| 24 | Chameleon , for example , has been available in English , German , Danish , Portuguese and Spanish for some time , and has recently added Czech and Polish language versions . |
| 25 | Foreign Extra Stout has been available in Indonesia for many years and local production began in 1974 . |
| 26 | This policy has been international in scope , as was presaged by LIFFE 's early attempt to use its niche in the European time zone to create a market in US T-bond futures , for which the CBoT had established the world 's most successful futures contract in the US time zone . |
| 27 | Boyd , a 6ft 5in American in his first English season , has been top-scorer for Brixton in every game — although on Saturday he shared the honour with his team-mate , Jody John , each scoring 33 points . |
| 28 | The AIDS Support Grant has been beneficial to Buckinghamshire SSD and its close relationship with the health authority . |
| 29 | He says some overseas players are disasters but Courtney has been great for Gloucestershire . |
| 30 | Vision moves to and fro between the vessels , setting up a visual and , if one has been long at sea , an emotional tension between them . |