Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And the Labour Party has been remarkably silent about this lack of trade union affiliation . |
| 32 | It is also true that the religious practice of those who attend vocational schools has been significantly inferior to those who attended catholic secondary schools , at least in the 1970s ( Nic Ghiolla Phadraig 1980 ) . |
| 33 | The hon. Gentleman has been noticeably reticent in this respect in the past . |
| 34 | Since the entire political strategy of his Democratic Leadership Council has been to persuade white folks that the Democratic Party no longer cares for ‘ minorities ’ and will target no particular money in their direction , Clinton has been predictably low on concrete ideas , coming down from the hills after the battle to suffocate the wounded with great cushions of blather about how ‘ we ’ have ‘ refused to confront our differences ’ and ‘ for this neglect we have all paid ’ . |
| 35 | The aircraft has been fully operational since 1987 and to date has completed more than 650 centrifugal launches with a better than 98% success rate — not such an outlandish scheme after all ! |
| 36 | A pilot scale rig dedicated to the exploration and development of the silver bullet process has been fully operational for some months . |
| 37 | He is a former Mayor of Thornaby and Stockton , and has been actively involved in local politics for more than 20 years . |
| 38 | the transport secretary John Macgregor has been totally opposed to that because it would mean nothing changing in effect . |
| 39 | The newly-appointed C E O , Gary who took over at the end of the year when Gill retired has been very involved in these restructuring efforts and has been working very effectively and is on top of the situation , and although three swallows may not make a summer , I can at least tell you that Camco has traded profitably in each of the first three months of nineteen ninety three and now I 'd like to hand you over to Frank , who will talk about the rest of our business . |
| 40 | Classical elasticity assumes this to be the case and it has been very successful with continuous media . |
| 41 | Now there 's no doubt that groining on the beaches has been very successful in many cases . |
| 42 | The work of the Association of Women of El Salvador ( AMES ) and other women 's organizations in the controlled zones and with refugees has been very impressive in this sense . |
| 43 | Since the war the CIA has been very alarmed at some of the left-wing British governments , many of whose politicians it regards as friends of Moscow . |
| 44 | New Guinea has both such features , whereas Africa has been very stable in this regard , while contact with Laurasian floras has been restricted by desert barriers and this contrasts with the intermingling in other tropical regions . |
| 45 | That argument has been very forceful in some countries for the last three or four decades at least . |
| 46 | The effect on the Sussex landscape of the disappearance of the elm has been very severe in some areas , notably the coastal plain , but the significance for birds is unclear . |
| 47 | The judge has been very forthright in this er saying that er both sides er should er get round the table and try and find some speedy solution to it . |
| 48 | Since those early days , the movement towards this goal has been very slow for economic and political reasons . |
| 49 | The establishment of the present winter population appears to date from the mid-1950s , and the increase has been very marked since 1960 . |
| 50 | Centralisation has been very evident in stronger arrangements to reinforce accountability of authorities , in annual reviews , of performance and the development and use of performance indicators . |
| 51 | Wife Marguerita said : ‘ This has been very upsetting for both of us . |
| 52 | The economists ' approach to bureaucracy has been very different to that of conventional public administration , with its emphasis on constitutional principles , institutions of control and review , and structural features of public agencies . |
| 53 | The condition of the Northern catholic — nationalist minority has been very different from that of the majority in the South . |
| 54 | Ivano has been more famous in recent years for his outspoken comments in the Tomo Cesen ‘ Lhotse South Face … |
| 55 | ‘ They spent all last winter getting the horse to switch off and he has been more relaxed with each race this season . ’ |
| 56 | However an increase is needed to take account of the growing number of elderly ( heavy users of the NHS ) and developments in health care technology , and increased spending has been more modest in some parts of the service , notably hospitals . |
| 57 | ( Is it that good colour vision at small visual angles has been more important for frugivorous monkeys than for our own recent ancestors ? ) |
| 58 | No writer has been more aware of this feature , or more effective in recording it , than Gerald Brodribb . |
| 59 | It is therefore hardly surprising to Marxists that Western medicine has been more interested in curative services for the most productive groups and that nonproductive groups like the disabled , mentally ill and handicapped are less well served . |
| 60 | Development activity in Europe has been less successful with fewer disc start-ups taking place . |