Example sentences of "been [adj] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a tenable hypothesis that Bayezid II did indeed set a pattern and that many of the later foundations involving a joint muderris/muftilik were made simply in imitation of his precedent , though their effect might have been to create an official muftilik where none had existed before or to upgrade an existing muftilik ( which latter may well have been Bayezid II's intention in Amasya and Istanbul ) . |
| 2 | There had been strong anti-JNA feeling in Slovenia since the notorious 1988 trial of journalists and a warrant officer accused of illegally disclosing secret plans for a military clampdown against Slovene liberals [ see pp. 36374 ; 36663 ] . |
| 3 | There have been distinct evolutionary changes in the focus , style and methodology of evaluation . |
| 4 | Slavery and imperial domination have been crucial social forces in the emergence of a modern world order , characterized by the striking inequalities which provide the essential backdrop to an understanding of the post-Second World War migrations of black communities to Britain , and which continue to generate migratory pressures on peoples from the Third World . |
| 5 | In recent years , however , there has been rapid economic development in parts of the South , notably in South-East Asia , while core economies , including those of the United States and Great Britain , have suffered recession . |
| 6 | He said that there had been unprecedented civilian involvement in the coup attempt and that the government did not want its opponents to exploit the situation through the media . |
| 7 | There have recently been encouraging medical advances in treating people with HIV who show no signs of being ill . |
| 8 | As these examples indicate , there have been great environmental gains in traffic restraint areas , quite apart from the traffic improvements . |
| 9 | Second , there may have been severe emotional damage in the past : broken or spoiled relationships with loved ones or with church leaders that have led to unbelief and lack of expectation that God would pour his Spirit into our lives . |
| 10 | These could have been gross bawdy parodies in the arena to the great delight of the multitude . |
| 11 | The most substantive changes have been considerable upward adjustments in prices paid to farmers , which have had a positive effect on output . |
| 12 | For , roughly , the following utterance will be true ( 10 ) There is a man on Mars just in case at the time of speaking there is a man on Mars , whereas ( 11 ) will be true just in case at some time prior to the time of speaking ( 10 ) would have been true : ( 11 ) There was a man on Mars There has been considerable philosophical interest in expressions that have this context-dependent property , like demonstratives , first and second person pronouns , and morphemes indicating tense . |
| 13 | Although there had been considerable Russian settlement in Asia before the railway age , it was not until the building of the Central Asian and Trans-Siberian lines that settlement , and with it the exploitation of minerals and other natural resources , really took off . |
| 14 | Whilst there has been considerable theoretical work in the area , there has been little empirical study of either state , or colleague control of professional practice . |
| 15 | The extension of assured tenancies and the deregulation of rents have been important contributory factors in the increased use of the Business Expansion Scheme ( BES ) in the private rented sector . |
| 16 | Throughout our recent evolutionary history , particularly since the rise of a hunting way of life , there must have been extreme selective pressures in favour of our ability to co-operate as a group : organized food gathering and hunts are successful only if each member of the band knows his task and joins in with the activity of his fellows ; a good deal of restraint on natural impulses during the stalk and capture of the prey is likewise essential . |
| 17 | There had , nonetheless , been open public disturbances in 1956 , shortly after the death of Stalin , and in 1978 , when the status of the republican language appeared to be under threat . |
| 18 | Three of the most successful organic concerns so far have been Welsh Organic Foods in Lampeter , West Wales Organic Growers and Brynllys Farm in Aberystwyth . |
| 19 | He had been Senior British Officer in command of the prisoners in the orphanage and he had received considerable help from the people of Fontanellato ; eventually he had been helped to reach Switzerland , Now , suddenly , a few months before the date we had settled on for our marriage , he began to worry about the idea of one of his officers ( who made no claims to any sort of upper-class lineage ) marrying the daughter of a village schoolmaster . |
| 20 | The Human Rights Commission assigned to Tadeusz Mazowiecki , who had been Polish Prime Minister in 1989-90 , the task of collecting all " available and credible " information on human rights in Yugoslavia and particularly in Bosnia-Hercegovina . |