Example sentences of "[noun] have been [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rubella ( German measles ) can cause devastating damage to the fetus in early pregnancy and girls who have not had an attack of this disease by the age of puberty are offered immunisation against this virus so that any baby conceived would be protected , although this should soon be rare in the UK because from 1988 , MMR ( measles , mumps , rubella ) protection has been available to all infants . |
| 2 | So our support has been subject to redefined guidelines , as you 'd expect from any efficient organisation . |
| 3 | McLaren boss Teddy Mayer as much as admitted at the end of 1975 that he thought Emerson wanted to move — or that he was in personal trouble of one kind and another — but the official news reached Hunt before it got to the team , and got to Hunt through Domingos Piedade , an eccentric figure close to the cheerful groupie Googie Zanon , a wealthy ( textiles ) Italian aristocrat whose support has been crucial to many drivers at critical points in their career , then ‘ manager ’ to Emerson and now to Ayrton Senna — a fringe career from which Domingos , hugely personable , but also often more a talker than a doer , has made a more than reasonable living . |
| 4 | The national park has been concerned for some time about the volume of heavy lorries using roads through the park . |
| 5 | And in looking at the experience not merely of Asia , but also of Africa , what becomes increasingly apparent is that most development strategies have tended _ particularly when we look at technical change — erm have tended to bypass women , or in many cases one also notes that the impact of technical change has been detrimental to poor women , and examples of this can be found , for instance , in terms of adoption of certain kinds of technique , like mechanisation of rice processing in parts of Asia , where one finds that there has been a large scale displacement of landless women . |
| 6 | The pace of educational change has been swift in recent years . |
| 7 | The idea that dreaming is essential for sanity has been prevalent in popular science since the eighteenth century . |
| 8 | Next in schedule three there is provision to compensate Mr and Mrs for the extra work involved in caring for Paul , it is agreed that er since they are in the special position of course of being Paul 's carers they are , not er , I mean no disrespect to nursing but they 're not erm it is agreed that there should a deduction of twenty five percent , that would give an annual figure of two thousand , six hundred and thirty one times four will amount to ten thousand five hundred and twenty four pounds , adding these figures together , future care during schooling comes if my addition has been accurate to ninety three thousand , six hundred and fifty pounds in total . |
| 9 | The approach of the police to the investigation of rape cases has been subject to much criticism — and then to considerable improvement — and it seems quite possible that these improvements , together with the advent of rape-crisis centres and victim-support facilities , have led more women to report rapes than did so formerly . |
| 10 | As will later become clear , Mrs Whitehouse has been involved in many campaigns in this area but there are two in particular which are of immediate relevance to this discussion . |
| 11 | ICI has been responsible for many major developments in acrylics since the 1930s . |
| 12 | Since its foundation Henley has been involved in developing management educators and trainers . |
| 13 | The world recession has been tough for all of us , at home and abroad . |
| 14 | ‘ Being in Brighton has been beneficial to all of us , the food is good and we have trained on the Downs , ’ said Tolstikov , who could have expected more recognition at home following last year 's London win but instead found life harder , not better . |
| 15 | ‘ The visitors ’ centre here opened about 18 months ago although the reserve has been open since 1977 and slowly we 're building it up . |
| 16 | The leadership election has been uncontested since 1975 . |
| 17 | The board has been concerned for some years about the possible impact of excessive dependence on coal — used for 80 per cent of electricity currently generated — if developments in the domestic or international coal market push prices up rapidly . |
| 18 | And some of the buildup play has been tremendous in this period of time . |
| 19 | Assume as before that national income has been constant for several time periods at £1,000 , and that autonomous investment is initially equal to £500 . |
| 20 | " As you know , Sara , your aunt 's income has been dwindling of late years — she was very careless of investments and spent too much of her capital . |
| 21 | Benjamin Libet of the University of California at San Francisco has been responsible for two sets of experiments which are often cited as crucial evidence in the debate about the relationship between brain and mind . |
| 22 | Moreover , to offer vocational courses such as TEC and BEC , where these were not previously available , would have required suitably qualified staff and appropriate facilities at a time of recession when money has been available for neither . |
| 23 | The idea that teachers should adopt a research perspective in their teaching has been current in educational thinking ( in Britain at least ) for a good number of years , associated in particular with the work of Stenhouse and Elliott ( for example , Stenhouse 1975 ; Elliott 1981 ) . |
| 24 | Tumin claims that the American Medical Association has been guilty of this practice . |
| 25 | The effect on the indigenous peoples has been debilitating in that their loss of faith in , for example , indigenous medicine has been combined with a realization of the ineffectiveness of western medicine in treating psychosomatic illness . |
| 26 | The warehouse has been empty for many years , but holding repairs have meant at least that water penetration to the fabric is reduced . |
| 27 | Depo-Provera has been available for short-term use in Britain since 1978 . |
| 28 | And it 's particularly , I think , acute in the parish of Saint Mary 's and Saint John 's because the vicarage has been empty for two years and erm they built a new house , it was more it was cheaper to build a new house than to do the old one up , but there it 's been sat , empty for two years , and erm they 've been trying to find a buyer . |
| 29 | The IT industry has been subject to rapid development in recent years and it is confidently expected that this trend will continue . |
| 30 | The critic as advocate has been fortunate in twentieth-century France , where a climate of culture has brought art and literature together ; also art and philosophy , in the case of Jean-Paul Sartre 's advocacy of Giacometti , in whose emaciated figure sculptures the philosopher saw a metaphor of human struggle , even , as he wrote in an article in Les Temps modernes in 1948 , ‘ the fleshless martyrs of Buchenwald ’ . |