Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] have been [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | blah , blah , blah , recommended that interview have been in both directions despite in this difficult across , and I could n't say when you could do that at midday , but the implication is you have to do it when you |
| 2 | Our Regional Association has been through difficult times , mainly due to isolation and communication problems . |
| 3 | The chief way out of this difficulty has been for empirical studies to focus on surrogates for power , rather than directly on the exercise of power itself . |
| 4 | Their crushing electoral defeat of 1983 in conjunction with the realisation that their share of the popular vote has been in steady decline since 1951 has , however , forced a reassessment . |
| 5 | The midwife said to me , ‘ This child has been on this earth before ’ and I thought that was rather an odd thing to say , but the midwife seemed quite adamant . |
| 6 | This issue has been of particular importance within central government in recent years as the traditional task of the civil service — that of offering objective , impartial advice — has come under scrutiny . |
| 7 | The Jamaican born bowler has been in superb form in the Cheltenham Festival … on Wednesday his bowling against Essex could swing the match . |
| 8 | The most marked shift has been between different sectors : the percentage of output ( Gross Domestic product , or GDP ) accounted for by manufacturing has decreased while the proportion attributable to service industries has increased . |
| 9 | As well as this , the trend over the past few years has been towards greater accountability from business in the form of information about matters other than profit and loss . |
| 10 | However , India produces some very good quality rugs , particularly in Kashmir , and the trend over the last few years has been towards finer and finer items . |
| 11 | Now if you cast your mind back to when we started the er discussion I did say I would talk about refer erm recommendations to you if you felt that this meeting had been of some benefit to yourself |
| 12 | Right in the course of our er er com our meetings Danny erm I will be asking you to recommend me to people but if , but only if you feel that this meeting has been of some benefit to you . |
| 13 | ‘ This knowledge has been of great use . |
| 14 | If the hon. Gentleman had been in earlier , he would have heard the hon. Member for Harrow , East ( Mr. Dykes ) saying that last week he had attended a debate on this subject in the Bundestag . |
| 15 | First , we should remember that the British economy has been in relative decline compared to the rest of the world for a hundred or more years — long before there was ever any concern expressed about adversary politics . |
| 16 | This assumption has been behind much of the conservative reaction to the ‘ Gorbachev phenomenon ’ . |
| 17 | This motion has been before this congress before and I am still pleased to be here to second this motion . |
| 18 | A few of the teenage mothers in this book had been in such a home . |
| 19 | Most of this book has been about mainstream mental health care of adult people . |
| 20 | That came as no surprise to us , as we know how good the business climate in this country has been in recent years with the success of deregulation and low taxation and the attractiveness of Britain as a home of inward investment . |
| 21 | Generally , it seems the response of social services has been at individual crisis level , rather than reaching out to travellers . |
| 22 | The fourteen-gallon tank had been about one quarter full of fuel , and both it and a second partially-filled tank were each found to contain over a quarter of a pint of water , the result of condensation forming in the tanks over a six-day period . |
| 23 | The rapidity of Japan 's economic and political transformation and the enduring influence of Tokugawa practices and ideas into this century mean that in Japan , as in other late industrializers such as the USSR , agricultural issues and the impact of the rural sector have been of crucial importance throughout the past 150 years . |
| 24 | I was offered post-natal support having been to some NCT ante-natal classes . |
| 25 | Such reactions have been at best unhelpful and at worst extremely damaging . |
| 26 | Golding 's own fictional worlds , unlike Amis 's or Murdoch 's , have tended to be enclosed , which may be natural to one whose early experience has been in naval life and schoolteaching ; and unlike theirs , powerfully concerned with the perils of code-breaking and a sense of shame . |
| 27 | But one may also say , from the fact that this has needed to be discussed — and from the fact that , as I say , throughout the greater part of Christendom women have not been ordained — it would be difficult to argue that the fact that this religion has had at its centre a male figure has been of little significance . |
| 28 | Foreigners are flooding the market — in the last three weeks alone , six Norwegians have been to Premier League clubs on trial . |
| 29 | Quite a number of experiments leading to such identification have been with small aspect ratio Bénard convection ( Sections 22.1 , 22.4 ) [ 87 , 181 , 246 ] ; small in this context means not much greater than unity . |
| 30 | The traditional response of moral philosophy has been to narrow down each act to its pure and innermost core , an act of pure will that , alone , is susceptible of moral assessment . |