Example sentences of "[been] [adj] [prep] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the primary importance of state benefits in financing old age may decline in the future as both the opportunities and the incentives increase for today 's working population to accumulate private assets for retirement , there can be little doubt that over the last eighty years state pensions have been instrumental in sustaining a considerable degree of economic independence among the retired population . |
| 2 | The poets and writers who had been instrumental in organizing the younger painters at the Indépendants also played a large part in uniting the different aspects of Cubism . |
| 3 | Management has not been insistent on displacing the permanent/temporary worker system with job seniority procedures ( i.e. first in/first out ) because of its own sense of paternalistic responsibility and because of the flexibility of operations afforded by the employment of temporary workers . |
| 4 | Fleming was no chemist and appears not to have been interested in pursuing the chemical problem . |
| 5 | NCR Corp has long been interested in offering a high degree of fault-tolerance on its computers , and its final line of mainframes , the 9800s , were claimed to be fault-tolerant . |
| 6 | B.1.1 put the Purchaser into the position which would have existed had such matter been as so warranted , represented or undertaken by paying to the Purchaser a sum equal to the amount by which the value or amount at Completion of any assets or liabilities of the Business ( computed for this purpose on the basis that full provision was made for the facts and circumstances in relation to which such breach arose ) was less or ( as the case may be ) more than the value or amount at Completion of such assets or liabilities ( computed on the assumption that the facts and circumstances had been such as to involve no such breach ) together with all costs and expenses incurred or any other loss or damage suffered by the Purchaser as a result of such breach ; or ( if the Purchaser shall so elect ) . |
| 7 | On one occasion a New Bradwell man , having been unsuccessful in boarding the first two ‘ buses to Bradwell at lunch time , expostulated ‘ I 'll get a seat on the next one even if I have to stand up ’ needless to say he never lived that statement down . |
| 8 | Eric Lindsay , head of economics at Methodist College , has been central in organising the fair . |
| 9 | It seems that Rastafari , reggae and toasting may have been crucial in asserting the cultural dominance of the Jamaican element within the Caribbean community in Britain . |
| 10 | Western leaders were content to rest on their laurels , convinced that Nato 's ‘ steadfastness ’ had been crucial in bringing the Communist bloc in from the cold , that Western prosperity had been enough to convince the East of the hollowness of Marxism . |
| 11 | Awife whose solicitors have been negligent in negotiating a financial settlement in her divorce proceedings is entitled to damages against the solicitors . |
| 12 | Clinicians have been accustomed to having the prime influence over the deployment of resources and to enjoying considerable freedom to pursue their professional activities . |
| 13 | It is true , as we have seen , that some attempts to teach reading have been unfortunate in having no psycholinguistic roots . |
| 14 | Around 50 academics have been involved in developing the new curriculum . |
| 15 | Has the Prime Minister seen the report on ’ World in Action ’ last night , which showed that one of his Ministers has been involved in smearing a private citizen ? |
| 16 | Recently he had begun to suspect they would like him to leave and , if they could have been sure of finding a substitute fourth , would have asked him to do so . |
| 17 | Notebooks out plagiarists while I reveal the secret of NME 's enduring success : some music papers have been good at treating Rock as An Art Form , others have been great at capturing the essential triviality , sensuality and sheer stupidity of pop ; NME , when it 's been at its best , has managed to combine the two things without going stark staring schizo-bonkers . |
| 18 | Your knowledge , experience and insight has been invaluable in getting the new Department of National Heritage off to a swift and successful start . |
| 19 | And he 's been invaluable in organizing the present conference . |
| 20 | Senior geophysicist John Perry says : ‘ Lessons learned from other groups including the Vietnam team have been invaluable in deciding the right solution for the Nigeria operation . |
| 21 | It is also clear that current merger policy has been somewhat permissive , for while it has been effective in preventing a limited number of individually important mergers , it has had little impact upon the level of merger activity as a whole . |
| 22 | Ever since John Marshall , its first chief justice , discovered that the court had the ability to overturn legislation that did not accord with the constitution , it has been indispensable in bolstering the central tenet of American democracy : that no grant of governmental power to those who exercise it for the time being is limitless . |
| 23 | Operations geophysicist Erik Havarstein has been responsible for mobilising the seismic vessel for the survey and has spent time in Lagos ensuring the technical specification and safety standards are in place for the survey . |
| 24 | In the 1921 election a leaflet in support of the candidature of Kerrison argued that the Labour Party had been responsible for implementing the 1918 Act , providing home helps for poor mothers and supplying free milk in necessitous cases . |
| 25 | Although Braque had been responsible for taking the first steps towards a more abstract type of painting , his own use of the new procedure was much more cautious than Picasso 's . |
| 26 | The motif of the yoke was originally the emblem of Isabella of Castile , Mariana 's distant predecessor , who had been responsible for sending Columbus on his first transatlantic voyage in 1492 ; in other words she had been responsible for initiating the whole colonial process ( Fig. 12 ) . |
| 27 | From the perspective of the Soviet élite , ‘ Socialist construction ’ , centralisation and Five-Year plans have been responsible for raising a backward country to a world power . |
| 28 | As I said , he certainly has nt been alone in fading the last few games — and he does do the work to begin with , so maybe has more right to fade . |
| 29 | Throughout history man has been concerned with controlling the external environment or adapting to its vagaries . |
| 30 | Swansea City Council have also been concerned with revitalising a decaying inner urban area based upon the decaying South Dock Area . |