Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | It 's been a bit difficult because we are used to doing the things that choirs do , having music and hiding behind it , and of course getting the girls to be uninhibited has been a bit difficult , but they 've taken to it very well actually and having the costumes for today 's rehearsals has been a great help . |
| 32 | The typical England strike under Taylor has been a lofted cross from the flank or dead ball situation into a crowded penalty area , a scramble , then either Gary Lineker or Platt emerging from the melee in celebration . |
| 33 | In the USA the absence of a socialist party , the weakness and declining influence of the trade unions in electoral politics , and the enormous costs of political campaigning have meant that throughout the post-war period access to money has been a critical determinant of how politicians are selected ( Bretton , 1980 ; Drew , 1983 ) . |
| 34 | A chapter on homebuilt organisations around the world is instructive , not least to learn that whilst amateur-built aircraft have had official blessing ( or at least the blind eye treatment ) in many Eastern Bloc countries for a decade or more , getting approval to fly a homebuilt in Italy and Germany has been a hard-won struggle against obstinate bureaucracy . |
| 35 | Indeed the ability to produce a range of returns on value for money indices has been a major factor in securing continued treasury funding . |
| 36 | The fully carved Victorian style of rocking horse has been a favourite child 's plaything for generations . |
| 37 | Mr Houphouet-Boigny has been a political giant , a supreme operator . |
| 38 | Securing public funds made available for urban regeneration has been a key target . |
| 39 | Adultery has been a hanging matter — both in this and in the usual sense of the phrase — for the literature of the past , and perhaps it could be suggested that both senses may at times be presented to the mind by what Amis does with the subject , and that there is no striking difference in this respect between what he did in the Sixties and what he has done in the Eighties . |
| 40 | I very much agree with my hon. Friend that local management of schools has been a great success . |
| 41 | All through the 1960s to the present there have been numerous minor changes of staff but the net result has been a gradual increase in numbers of the field staff to meet the ever growing commitments . |
| 42 | The result has been a noticeable increase in the number of pilots who suddenly find themselves faced with a situation far beyond their control , usually a situation that they had not even considered at the start of the flight . |
| 43 | The result has been a substantial increase in homelessness and deprivation . |
| 44 | The result has been a two-way movement . |
| 45 | The result has been a greater awareness by each of the priority areas of school development upon which the other has decided to focus . |
| 46 | The net result has been a marked resurgence of the disease in many parts of the world to what some people , including the famous American malariologist Paul Russel , consider to be levels that existed before the Second World War . |
| 47 | The result has been a steady decline in membership as members began to demand the type of facilities that they saw in squash and golf clubs . |
| 48 | The result has been a rapid spread of unsightly buildings across the countryside . |
| 49 | Lawyers are currently handling a record number of claims against doctors , and the result has been a dramatic shift towards ‘ defensive ’ medicine US-style . |
| 50 | The result has been a high number of vacant buildings and the under-use of others . |
| 51 | The nearest comparable company , GGT , was more aggressive withe regard to acquisition and diversification , but the result has been a weakened balance sheet . ’ |
| 52 | Ever since it first appeared , the tractor , like the motor car has been a potential source of danger and death . |
| 53 | The whole episode has been a major embarrassment for all concerned . |
| 54 | ‘ Andy Gregory has been a brilliant scrum-half , but he 's coming to the end of his career and can only be a short-term buy for Doug Laughton at Leeds . |
| 55 | Matching the change in the range of qualifications of school-leavers has been a dramatic transformation in the youth labour market in a little over a decade . |
| 56 | Lack of funds has been a big problem , especially for research , but it always has been . |
| 57 | The coalmining industry has been a major symbol of the differences between the two main political parties of post-war Great Britain : the Labour party , with its firm commitment — especially in the first decades of the period — to public ownership of the ‘ commanding heights of the economy ’ , and the Conservative party and its much greater ( and increasing from the mid-1970s on ) commitment to free market operations with minimal state interference , let alone ownership . |
| 58 | The international competitiveness of British industry has been a major cause of concern for some considerable time . |
| 59 | But the reality for most of our clients has been a poor service from the system . |
| 60 | In the SAS he undoubtedly learned rather more than that , including the survival skills which he has had to draw on so often in expeditions which have not always gone according to plan.He has been a full-time explorer since he was 25 and ‘ like everybody else , in every career , you do n't retire until you have to , ’ he says.His CV reads like a non-stop Boys Own adventure — shooting up the White Nile in a hovercraft , parachuting on to the Jostedalsbre Glacier and negotiating more than 4,000 miles of Canadian and Alaskan rivers.Between 1979 and 1982 , he circumnavigated the world on the Transglobe Expedition , becoming one of the first men ever to reach both the North and South Poles overland . |