Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] [noun sg] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overall , the process of becoming a budget-minded organisation has been a learning curve for some of us but has to be the right way to go . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Becoming a Methodist minister has been my ambition for many years . |
| 3 | MRI has been much slower to develop than computed tomography , but its impact in those areas where it clearly has a substantial advantage has been enormous , namely the central nervous system and the musculoskeletal system . |
| 4 | That much reading has a therapeutic effect has been an argument throughout this book . |
| 5 | The difficulties in authorising one version of a play which has a multiple existence has been a preoccupation of Shakespearean editors over the last decade . |
| 6 | Thus , where one would expect a large basin to have been made from sheet metal , it was instead cast with walls of amazing thinness . |
| 7 | An advertising poster for the clothing company Benetton which features a burning car has been put up close to a housing estate notorious for joyriders . |
| 8 | The last time I had seen a white rose had been in that filthy room in the Tower . |
| 9 | At the time of writing a Green Paper has been produced by the Commission in order to obtain feedback from interested parties . |
| 10 | Further evidence suggesting a positive link has been demonstrated in other cross-sectional studies ( New et al , 1963 ; Ahuja et al , 1969 ; Santen et al , 1972 ; Albrink , 1974 ; Lamda et al , 1974 ; Reckless et al , 1978 ; Seviour et al , 1985 ) . |
| 11 | Incubation for 15 min at 37-C in 25 mg/ml trypsin and 10 mg/ml EDTA in Ca2 + -free M2 + 6 mg/ml BSA followed by extensive pipetting using a flame-polished micropipette has been found satisfactory for late 16-cell embryos and early blastocysts ( 13,25 ) . |
| 12 | Theories of ‘ urban degeneration ’ which suggested that the conditions of city life were manufacturing a deteriorated race had been aired since the 1880s , lending themselves to a number of schemes of reclamation . |
| 13 | In my experience most people who suffer a myocardial infarct have been under pressure with associated exhaustion and fatigue for a prolonged period . |
| 14 | They had cornered the Jeopardites in a canyon where a few makeshift tents indicated a Jeopardite camp had been discovered . |
| 15 | The first viable electronic device for locating a lost ski has been launched by a German manufacturer of avalanche transceivers , Ortovox . |
| 16 | She had even considered the possibility that the old fool 's frantic efforts to match a young wife had been the cause of his death , and the idea had not caused her to turn her eyes away and evade the issue . |
| 17 | Indeed , for many the very idea of attaining a political focus has been discarded in favour of a celebration of fragmentation . |
| 18 | I feel a heavy burden has been lifted from me . |
| 19 | Something approaching a personal crisis had been building up since Nietzsche 's return from the unforgettable distress of war . |
| 20 | As noted above , any former doubt as to the need of a salaried partner to hold a practising certificate has been resolved by s86 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 . |
| 21 | Another approach to creating a user-friendly system has been worked on by Doszkocs at the National Institute of Health : CITE ( Current Information Transfer in English ) is a natural language query capability for the MEDLINE database . |
| 22 | The procedure of creating a new product has been conducted many , many times throughout the engineering industry in many different ways . |
| 23 | Doyle said : ‘ When he got back to his Mercedes Stephen saw a front window had been smashed . |
| 24 | Saatchi pitched against J Walter Thompson and incumbent Bozell , which last week believed the decision to appoint a pan-European Agency had been revoked in favour of a country-by-country strategy . |
| 25 | The ability of a prime minister effectively to call a general election has been regarded by some writers as the most important weapon in ensuring parliamentary support . |
| 26 | Before she could scream a damp rag had been clamped over her mouth , and suddenly there was pain behind her eyes and all was darkness . |
| 27 | That he did not escape a final censorship has been attributed to Urban 's discovery of the 1616 injunction , as recorded in the file , and to his realization that Galileo had exceeded his perception of what had been allowed . |
| 28 | Ever since the late 1950s almost every AIB team sent out to investigate a fatal accident has been accompanied by at least one RAF pathologist . |
| 29 | Estonia 's experience shows that the difficulties of introducing a new currency have been exaggerated , he says . |
| 30 | The problem of making a lasting peace had been postponed . |