Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] [adj] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The condition of the Northern catholic — nationalist minority has been very different from that of the majority in the South . |
| 32 | ‘ They spent all last winter getting the horse to switch off and he has been more relaxed with each race this season . ’ |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | No writer has been more aware of this feature , or more effective in recording it , than Gerald Brodribb . |
| 35 | Development activity in Europe has been less successful with fewer disc start-ups taking place . |
| 36 | And indeed there are some who make think that the County Council has been too generous in that the reduction from the hundred percent migration in four districts , er amounts only to somewhere about four and a half er thousand dwellings . |
| 37 | The attitude of Nottinghamshire local education authority has been quite disgraceful by any standards . |
| 38 | The DIY business has been fiercely competitive with Do-It-All , B&Q and Texas all battling for supremacy through price cuts and heavy advertising . |
| 39 | Does my hon. Friend agree that , in certain cases , it has been extremely difficult for some smaller pubs to be able to pay the amount of money that some of the brewers have been asking them to pay ? |
| 40 | Business has been pleasantly surprised on many occasions by the quality of school work . |
| 41 | The design process has been unnecessarily slow on many projects because the exchange of information between designers has been ineffective . |
| 42 | She has been highly critical of many established institutions , such as the senior civil service , Foreign Office , Bank of England , universities , and local government . |
| 43 | Erm in Wales and Scotland also slightly better than people expected erm a rise was , was expected but not as strong as we , as we 've actually seen erm the Welsh and Scottish er economies , certainly there 's cle clear evidence in Scotland but I think one can read it for Wales as well , showing that the manufacturing economy er very much being buoyed up by the electronic sector erm and that probably er helping to explain why growth has been so strong in those parts of the country . |
| 44 | Michael Rayer has given the selectors so little excuse to drop him , has been so sound in all aspects of play , that he has consigned possibly the most dangerous prong of the Welsh attack to the replacements ' bench . |
| 45 | The active involvement between Japan and the Western world which began in the 1850s has been so important for both that a consideration of Japan 's place in the world order is an appropriate starting point for any discussion of her recent history . |
| 46 | Only indigenous breeds are described , but the British Friesian has been so dominant in this country that its history is included here , though the Friesian and Holstein are considered in more detail in the Netherlands and North American sections . |
| 47 | I hope that this excellent measure will receive not only the assent of the House but the strong support of everyone who has been so concerned about this issue during 1991 . |
| 48 | ‘ Yes , I 'd been rather afraid of that , too . ’ |
| 49 | She 'd been very positive about that , not just here in the car , but she had said it to me in the bedroom while I was packing her things and she was still in a mentally uninhibited state . |
| 50 | He 'd been very careful about that . |
| 51 | I THINK I must have been slightly mad for most of my life . |
| 52 | Second , the existing practice of the revenue under the pre-1976 law was not to tax benefits in kind on the average cost basis and those who were asking questions on behalf of their constituents would have been well aware of this fact . |
| 53 | My dad was a mason — I reckon he 'd have been right interested in these bricks . |
| 54 | Because multiple exemplars of each junction have been used in the previous studies this information would have been nearly identical in all six exemplars of each junction . |
| 55 | Her role must have been curiously akin to that of the executive businesswoman today , exercising the skills of management and delegation . |
| 56 | They must have been easily satisfied in those days , I should think . ’ |
| 57 | Yes , Joe must have been desperately lonely at that time , because he asked us to dinner the following evening at Chez Victor 's , one of his favourite restaurants . |
| 58 | Since then , the mill ( which is not open to the public ) has been visited by a large number of interested bodies , all of whom must have been greatly impressed with this tale of hard work , expense and perseverence . |
| 59 | Few , however , will have been as well-prepared for this as Don Cruickshank , the ; new director-general of the telecommunications regulator , Oftel , who has come to the post after three years as the first-ever chief executive of the National Health Service in Scotland where public controversy , as he put it , ‘ is part of the job ’ . |
| 60 | These differing responses , the fundamental cause of most of the wars of history , were not necessarily taken with a knowledge of the effect that they would ultimately have , for at the relevant time the choice would not have been as clear to those making them , as it would be to minds educated to standards prevailing centuries later . |