Example sentences of "[vb -s] [been] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report proposes a new structure for the centre , which it says has been underused as a TNO institute . |
| 2 | It is in the field of its own procedures that the Court of Appeal , in the past , has been receptive to the claim of substantive justice . |
| 3 | On other occasions committees have been generally in support of government action but have urged that it be undertaken more vigorously : the Defence Committee has been critical of the Ministry of Defence when it has spent less than the sums provided in the annual estimates . |
| 4 | Lastly , Mr Gandhi has been critical of the decision to let American aircraft refuel in India on their way to the Gulf . |
| 5 | The Thatcher Government has been critical of the growth of quangos . |
| 6 | Since the late nineteenth century , the problem has been one of a surplus of labour . |
| 7 | X for Sparc and iAPX-86 has been one of the company 's most important achievements to date . |
| 8 | For more than fifty years , Danny Holland has been one of the premier cuts men in boxing . |
| 9 | The ineffectiveness of both Emburey and Tufnell has been one of the tour 's major shocks and together with Philip DeFreitas 's injury has left England looking somewhat toothless . |
| 10 | Ironically , it has been one of the board 's own employees , Dr Ross Hesketh , who has been questioning many of the rather bland assurances on what has happened to British plutonium from the civil programme . |
| 11 | It has been one of the principle tenets of urethritis treatment policy that the patient should take no alcohol during the treatment period . |
| 12 | Crosby said : ‘ Stamina has been one of the lad 's weaknesses and this could explain it . |
| 13 | Since its birth in the 1920s , air travel has been one of the world 's most heavily regulated industries . |
| 14 | FOR more than six years the race between America , Europe and Japan to establish technical standards for their own versions of high-definition television ( HDTV ) has been one of the world 's great technological rivalries , pitting the market-driven regulatory approach of America against the government-led industrial policies favoured in Japan and Europe . |
| 15 | For many years the People 's Republic of China has been one of the world 's leading conventional arms and nuclear technology exporters . |
| 16 | Whenever Keith has been good for a day Mr Smith should watch a programme on the television with him . |
| 17 | The continuing strength of the dollar has been good for the group , as many shipbuilding and most shipping contracts are priced in dollars , and both Finland and Norway have gained a competitive edge against both the US and Germany . |
| 18 | In 1937 Fenner Brockway wrote that " from the outset the Left Book Club has been recognisable as an instrument of Communist Party policy " . |
| 19 | The Enterprise Centre 's ‘ local ’ LEC — LEEL has been supportive of a number of areas of the centre 's activities and sponsored the 1993 Napier Enterprise Lecture . |
| 20 | Jonathon is a graduate of the Northern College of Music and has been professional as a viola and violin player for 6 years . |
| 21 | ISOSCELES , the debt-burdened Gateway supermarket group , has appointed Bob Nellist as finance director , a post which has been vacant since the departure of Elizabeth Hignell last September . |
| 22 | According to Professor Ian Fells of Newcastle University , the technology has been available for a while . |
| 23 | In reply , Sir Derek said that though he could not speak for other directors , ‘ my resignation has been available to the board from the day all this started . |
| 24 | This is the first time that such a service has been available at a tennis event . |
| 25 | The PFA chairman no longer figures in Bassett 's first-team plans and has been available at a bargain £70,000 since the end of last season . |
| 26 | In the light of what has been available on the market between 1986 and 1989 , it is fascinating to see what was not acquired as well as what has been bought . |
| 27 | Hitachi Ltd has a new tool for use in building diagnostic and consulting expert systems : called ES-Pormote2/W-DIAG , it is designed to enable the input of knowledge in a tree structure , and it has been available from the beginning of the month at $6,000 ; it runs on the Hitachi 3050 series of Unix workstations and can be used to generate a source code program for Hitachi 's ES/Kernel series of general purpose expert system development tools ; ES-Promote runs under Hitachi 's implementation of Motif and the X Window system . |
| 28 | He declared : ‘ It also demonstrates how misleading has been much of the coverage of this issue , in the Press and elsewhere . ’ |
| 29 | The increase has been slight at A level , but considerable at O level and CSE , as Figure 11.1 shows . |
| 30 | Yesterday , chairman of the council , Phyll Hendy , said : ‘ He has been unswerving in the service he has given to the parish and has been kind and co-operative to everyone . |