Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] have [been] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the European Parliament has been an important source of pressure on the British government to improve its sex-equality legislation . |
| 2 | Held , allowing the appeal , that the retraction by a witness in extradition proceedings of evidence previously given in the requesting state did not in itself discredit that evidence and , unless it was worthless , the magistrate was entitled to act upon it in deciding whether there was sufficient evidence to justify an order for committal ; that , equally , a witness 's evidence was not to be automatically discredited by virtue of that witness having been an alleged accomplice of the accused ; and that the magistrate had given proper consideration to the retraction of P. 's evidence and to his being an alleged accomplice when deciding if there was sufficient evidence to justify the applicant 's committal ; that , further , since the provision in article 1 of the Treaty allowing for extradition in respect of offences ‘ committed within the territory of the requesting party ’ having been extended by article 3(2) to cover participation in extradition offences punishable by the laws of both states , the lack of evidence of the applicant 's presence in Sweden at the relevant time did not take the offences outside the ambit of the Treaty ; that under Schedule 1 to the Act of 1989 the magistrate was concerned only with committal proceedings under English procedure in relation to the English crimes specified in the order to proceed and not with the jurisdiction of the Swedish court ; and that , accordingly , the magistrate had been entitled to commit the applicant ( post , pp. 846D–F , 850F — 851A , E — 852C , 853A ) . |
| 3 | The organisation 's second point , as the chart shows , is that industry has been the unintended victim of high inflation , which has led to a significantly higher corporate tax take than the Lawson reforms of 1984 intended . |
| 4 | At Huddersfield , a strong reserve force had been a vital factor in the Championship run , and Chapman soon set about building a similar force at Arsenal . |
| 5 | A sense of insecurity and emotional tension had been the permanent feature of Christian existence during most of the previous three centuries . |
| 6 | Perhaps the most obvious feature of this change has been the widespread development of out-of-town superstores and retail parks . |
| 7 | The existence of this funding has been the key factor in LEAs ' development of specialist appointments and experimental initiatives . |
| 8 | A superbly organised defence has been the key factor so far and even now at the zero hour , the men at the back are steeling themselves for a final defiant gesture . |
| 9 | This fight has been an expensive business for me personally , but I do not mind that . |
| 10 | This saga since this recession has been a sorry tale . |
| 11 | The international competitiveness of British industry has been a major cause of concern for some considerable time . |
| 12 | This question of pre-versus postsynaptic plasticity has been a major source of polemic in recent years , but with most theoreticians favouring the postsynaptic side as the main site of plasticity . |
| 13 | This chapter has been a complex one , but it has nevertheless been an exercise in oversimplification . |
| 14 | Professor Glanville Williams sees the reason for the extended rule to have been an early uncertainty as to the nature of a joint and several obligation : see Joint Obligations , p. 135 . |
| 15 | There is not much doubt that in the past direct mail has been a blunt instrument and often still is . |
| 16 | Indeed , this benefit has been the over-riding consideration for at least one major corporate in its decision to implement a joint PC and Macintosh strategy . |
| 17 | Secondly , the organisational model which until very recently has characterised the residential sector has been a centralised one , in which most administrative decisions are taken by the management staff in the headquarters of local authority social work departments . |
| 18 | The major impetus for this work have been the national surveys carried out by the Home Office , the British Crime Surveys of 1982 , 1984 and 1988 . |
| 19 | This issue had been a major stumbling block , as any equalization of representation almost inevitably meant a relative reduction in the current number of seats held by the country 's most heavily populated provinces , Ontario and Quebec . |
| 20 | This issue had been a major stumbling block , as any equalization of representation almost inevitably meant a relative reduction in the current number of seats held by the country 's most heavily populated provinces , Ontario and Quebec . |
| 21 | Strategies to deal with this issue have been a major concern to local organisers . |
| 22 | The Tibetan Plateau has been an unstable area since at least the Late Palaeozoic . |
| 23 | Historical fantasy has been an underlying theme in fashion for some time , but it is now being interpreted in a fascinating variety of ways from the totally hysterical to the perfectly wearable . |
| 24 | One of the characteristic defects of much evaluation research in social work has been the limited amount of systematic data on exactly what social workers do in practice ( Carver and Edwards , 1972 ; Goldberg and Warburton , 1979 ; Goldberg et al . , |
| 25 | The cause of this difference has been a central question in solid Earth geochemistry for two decades . |
| 26 | This Directive has been a major source of conflict between the UK and the European Commission . |
| 27 | Everyone knew that this body had been a key element in Stalin 's rise to power and that any criticism of it was , by inference , a critique of Stalin . |
| 28 | An added burden throughout this period has been the additional costs of routing the bulk of Zambian exports and imports through South Africa . |
| 29 | We have already noted that two key ingredients contributing to this crisis have been the burgeoning remand population during the 1990s and , closely linked with and contributing to this , the explosion in the number of committals for trial to the Crown Court . |
| 30 | My hon. Friend has been a close supporter of the industry for many years and has taken a close interest in its activities . |