Example sentences of "been [adj] [noun] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was confirmed that there had been broad agreement on establishing a ceiling of 6,000 on the overall combined number of nuclear warheads . |
| 2 | With this in mind , the company has been investing money in planting new crops before the threat of a ban becomes reality . |
| 3 | There have been persistent reports of understaffing at Strangeways , is that one of the issues that will be looked into by this Inquiry ? |
| 4 | To hold the parity , high interest rates would have snuffed out any natural upturn , and there would have been continual rounds of spending cuts and damaging tax increases to keep borrowing from exploding into the stratosphere . |
| 5 | The Netherlands , Switzerland and Luxembourg have traditionally been popular locations for holding companies in Europe . |
| 6 | There appeared to have been cross-party complicity in dividing up funds from " commissions " taken by party officials ( and in some cases passed on to national party headquarters ) , amounting to 5-10 per cent of the total cost of projects . |
| 7 | Within this , there has been great emphasis on attaining detailed ( often numerical ) standards . |
| 8 | However , despite a varied programme there has been great difficulty in gathering support for the other functions and indeed the last one had to be cancelled . |
| 9 | For example , there have been long delays in hearing juvenile cases in some youth courts , where numbers of court appearances have doubled . |
| 10 | For , though there has been useful progress in bringing Co-operation to attention as a credible option , it remains in the United Kingdom , far more than in some western democracies , an exceptional way of undertaking an industrial venture . |
| 11 | In Britain there has been considerable development of teaching aids for online education and training . |
| 12 | There has been considerable development in housing since the creation of the LDDC in 1981 . |
| 13 | The hon. Member for Ogmore ( Mr. Powell ) made a good point at the beginning of the debate when he said that there have been considerable difficulties in redesigning the Shops Act 1950 to meet the requirements of the 1990s . |
| 14 | There has , however , been considerable work in developing the concept of ‘ opportunistic ’ case-finding , which for older people means identifying those likely to need help or to develop health care problems . |
| 15 | In the last three decades there has been considerable success for auctioneering , both in terms of money and also in prestige . |
| 16 | During the last ten years there has been considerable progress towards ensuring that thematic work is incremental , that undue repetition is avoided and that the skills , attitudes , concepts and knowledge of the integrated subjects are taught sequentially . |
| 17 | In the years since this book was first written , there has been considerable movement toward recommending , if not requiring , this kind of nonsexist language in business , education and publishing ( especially academic publishing ) . |
| 18 | In recent years there has been considerable interest in assessing the general feasibility of predicting future violence and dangerousness in individuals and families ( see Parton and Parton , 1989 ; Parton and Small , 1989 ) . |
| 19 | There had been inconclusive talk of establishing middle schools , or a peculiar 11–13 school with a chain of upper schools thereafter , but nothing was settled . |
| 20 | One aspect of this discretion relates to the time limit for making an application for judicial review under RSC Order 53 : s. 31(6) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 allows the court to refuse leave or to refuse relief if there has been undue delay in making the application and that the granting of relief would , amongst other things , be ‘ detrimental to good administration ’ . |
| 21 | That claim was denied but TV Licensing conceded that there had been insufficient grounds for obtaining the warrant . |
| 22 | ‘ All religious programmes are now censored , ’ he adds ; ‘ in addition , there has been wholesale destruction of printing presses connected with publications that were critical of the government and that supported the movement for change . ’ |
| 23 | Enrolments for teacher training have dropped off sharply ( see Fig. 9.1 ) and , despite government incentives , there has been increasing difficulty in providing teachers for rural areas where security is poor . |
| 24 | But in terms of service and common purposes between ourselves I do n't think there has been particular resistance to doing what we 've been doing . |
| 25 | It is not concerned with the merits of the instruments but rather with whether the special attention of the House should be drawn to the legislation in that it : ( a ) imposes a tax or fee on the public or a charge on the public revenue ; ( b ) is made pursuant of an enactment containing specific provisions excluding it from challenge in the courts ; ( c ) purports to have retrospective effect when there is no express authority in the enabling statute ; ( d ) has been unduly delayed in publication or laying before Parliament ; ( e ) has come into operation before being laid before Parliament and there has been unjustifiable delay in informing the Speaker ; ( f ) is of doubtful vires or makes some unusual or unexpected use of the powers conferred by the enabling statute ; ( g ) calls for any special reason of form or content , for elucidation ; ( h ) is defective in its drafting . |
| 26 | The anonymity of the studio rather than a Glyndebourne ambience — I realize there would have been huge problems with taking the performances live , but I 'm not sure Henry Wood Hall was the ideal solution . |
| 27 | Judging by the latest letter he had received from New York , care of Isobel Dawson , it was going to go up with a bang — there had been sufficient talk of banning it to make sure that everybody bought it , without any real danger that it would be banned from the bookstores . |