Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been yet another substantial increase in resources for the NHS , and that will enable a continuing reduction in waiting lists and better service for all those who use the NHS . |
| 2 | Here again there has been very little systematic exploration , although such universal features of the organization of interaction are good candidates for potentially important functional pressures on linguistic structure . |
| 3 | It thus seems that there has been very little geological reworking of the Mercurian surface since the apparent planet-wide obliteration of most craters at the beginning . |
| 4 | There is , however , always a danger that her critics are really writing about themselves , defending their own positions , so there has been very little constructive criticism . |
| 5 | The incidence of bully/victim problems in schools within mainstream children has now been well-established ; however while it may be likely that children with special educational needs will be over-represented in such categories , there has been very little quantitative evidence on this point , or on which types of special needs children are most likely to be involved , in which way . |
| 6 | The problem with this is not merely that there has been very little serious thinking within multiculturalism about how ‘ cultural understanding ’ actually occurs , about its forms , mechanisms and limits . |
| 7 | ‘ There has been very little objective research into the work done by reporters and its effectiveness , ’ said Mr Miller . |
| 8 | There has been very little previous research on autobiographical memory . |
| 9 | Clark revealed that there has been only one official bid for Keane since the end of the season — a £3.5 million verbal offer from Rovers which Blackburn 's chairman Robert Corr subsequently confirmed in writing to Forest chairman Fred Reacher . |
| 10 | Although the discontinuity in economic policy from the Heath Cabinet ( 1972 — 4 ) is remarkable , there has been only one dissenting resignation from her Cabinet , partly on grounds of her style as well as policy ( that of Mr Heseltine over Westland in January 1986 ) . |
| 11 | To the best of my knowledge there has been only one sustained examination of mass production undertaken by someone using a psychoanalytic perspective . |
| 12 | Despite the fact that there have been many reports describing the central effects of neuropeptides on gastric and pancreatic secretion , there has been only one previous report of the effects of a centrally acting peptide on biliary secretion . |
| 13 | The British coastline , which has been under greater developmental pressure than almost any other part of the country , has been the subject of particular interest for conservationists . |
| 14 | It is surprising therefore , that there has been so little public interest in this country in proposals to release into the environment living , man-made creatures . |
| 15 | And when I was when I got to New York , I was met by two first cousins from two different families er Bert who 's er er nephew of my my mother 's sister Laura Anne in in New York , and another one , William who 'd been very successful vice president of or something . |
| 16 | She had been about to collude with Stan in the face of all her good resolutions , and there would have been yet another indelible stain on her spirit which , she suspected , were it available to her , she would not care to put unwashed in her underwear drawer . |
| 17 | That house might well have been here that big house just there across th in there which has now been turned into flats . |
| 18 | Could have been just nothing-some little schoolboy sin . |
| 19 | There could have been so much important material in what has been called " The Domesday Book of the Highlands and Islands . " |
| 20 | There could have been so much important material in what has been called " The Domesday Book of the Highlands and Islands . " |
| 21 | His wife was named Mary and there appears to have been only one surviving child , a daughter . |
| 22 | Apart from our own prospective studies there seems to have been only one other approach to rectal mucosa in gluten sensitivity based on a retrospective analysis of intraepithelial lymphocytes material obtained 25 years previously . |
| 23 | Apparently there had been yet another terrible scene when the old Doctor , his wits once more restored by salt and water , had discovered that he had again been disobeyed . |
| 24 | If it had been less populated open country the application may not have been refused . |
| 25 | Opposition MPs claimed that there had been only one small bookmaker in favour and that everyone else had either objected or been neutral . |
| 26 | There had been only one obvious course of action — and that had been to raise the necessary sums by selling the family estate . |
| 27 | than if it had been so much inert luggage . |
| 28 | Trovoada had been under increasing popular pressure to take action against Daio after the latter publicly criticized him on April 3 . |
| 29 | Nixdorf , one of West Germany 's leading computer manufacturers , had been under severe financial pressure during 1989 . |
| 30 | In Kosovo , which had been under Serbian direct rule since the end of June [ ibid. ] , the majority Albanian population kept up its campaign of open defiance in the face of an intensifying Serbian crackdown . |