Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb -s] [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the import side there has been a disturbing trend comprising two related factors : |
| 2 | As a result there has been a substantial growth in customer visits and a significant increase in our market share . |
| 3 | In both Britain and the United States there has been a great deal of debate on the question of police accountability . |
| 4 | In the United States there has been a longstanding debate over prescribing rights for psychologists . |
| 5 | Will my right hon. and learned Friend confirm that under Conservative rule there has been a 30 per cent . |
| 6 | In recent months there has been a lively debate — much of it behind the scenes — into how the hospitality industry can speak more effectively to Government . |
| 7 | Because invoice discounting does not involve banks of computers and armies of clerks to handle clients ' sales ledgers it has been a low-cost way of getting into this market . |
| 8 | The light it sheds is a pleasant , tender rose . |
| 9 | Even the products division which has been a long time drag on profitability improved its performance , and was well up too . |
| 10 | It is hoped that this will gradually lessen the passivity which has been a characteristic response of some women to multiple loss . |
| 11 | Anyone who thought before 1990 that Richard Perle , Ronald Reagan 's ultra-hawkish arms-control man , and Anne Lewis , a political consultant who has been a close ally of Jesse Jackson , would agree on policy towards Iraq would have been dismissed as mad : but they did . |
| 12 | In the same vein there has been a long-standing tendency to equate rationality with logic , and logic with mathematics . |
| 13 | Over the billennia there has been a general loss of small bodies from the space between the planets , partly to interstellar space and partly through impacts with the planets . |
| 14 | Right through the postwar decades there has been a steady flow of labour from the rural to urban areas , from agricultural to non-agricultural occupations . |
| 15 | With her extended white cloud of frizzed hair she has been a constant , if sometimes startling , presence in the New York underground art scene for many a year . |
| 16 | So he has given , God gives this power within , power of the holy spirit , the indwelling Christ , in you and in me , so I 've got no advantage over you , and you have no advantage over me and the person who 's been a Christian for fifty years has n't got an advantage over the Christian who 's been a Christian for one day because that same power that raised Christ from the dead , hear that , the same power that God used to raise Christ from the dead , that is the same power that dwells in you and in me , that 's what the bible says . |
| 17 | The picture which emerges is a mixed one indeed : on the one hand , the creation of a committee structure which defies all the rules of good management and administration , and on the other , a number of actual or potential outcomes of considerable value . |
| 18 | The picture which emerges is a grim one for disabled people . |
| 19 | The application of computer technology in the excavation process itself has been a major area of growth over the last decade . |
| 20 | However , over this period there has been a substantial improvement in late age ( i.e. 65 + ) mortality in Britain ( Table 3.6 ) . |
| 21 | Yet the proportion of the total population aged 65 and over in this category is estimated from the NDHS for each Authority and is now ten years out of date , during which period there has been a significant increase in the numbers of elderly , including the very old . |
| 22 | During the same period there has been a significant overall fall in employment and rise in unemployment , among 16–18-year-olds . |
| 23 | He added : ‘ In the past three weeks there has been a positive feeling after our performance against Norway . ’ |
| 24 | In judging this record there has been a strong tendency among commentators , from either an economic or a political viewpoint , to award the Labour government good marks for achievement [ Morgan , 1984 ; Cairncross , 1985 ] . |
| 25 | Since the war there has been a remarkable lack of comment on this issue from the German side . |
| 26 | and within the last say twenty five years there 's been a dramatic change in the young people 's way of thinking , maybe more of them have gone to university than they did the previous twenty five years and that there is such a difference now than there was that I mean for instance if there was a war there would n't , there would be far more conscientious objectors than there ever was before far more than erm young man saying no I 'm going to fight for my country , be patriotic I do n't think you would find , for instance , the youth of this country so patriotic as they was in the last war , your country needs you . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , in the last 20 years there has been a sharp increase in the production and sale of smokeless tobacco in some developed countries . |
| 28 | Which is not to say that popular humour in the States is particularly nice : in recent years there has been a great demand for in-your-face racist , ethnic and misogynist stuff , as typified on the respectable side by Jackie Mason and on the unholy by Andrew Dice Clay . |
| 29 | In recent years there has been a great increase in the use of active compounds . |
| 30 | Hosts : Horses and donkeys Site : Caecum and colon Species : For many years there has been a great deal of confusion in the classification of this group of parasites and in a recent revision it has been proposed that the genus Trichonema be discarded and replaced by four genera , namely Cyathostomum , Cylicocyclus , Cylicodontophorus and Cylicostephanus , these being collectively referred to as cyathostomes . |