Example sentences of "[ex0] have been [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wales was once known as a fly-half factory , but since Jonathan Davies went North there has been not a single successor of world class selected for the national team and at the moment the signs are not good that one is about to come off the production like . |
| 2 | In the early 1990s there has been indeed a reverse transition to capitalism in the former communist countries of Eastern Europe , and the issues this process raises will need to be considered more fully later ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 3 | But , within the decade , it seems clear that any long-term trend is outweighed by temporary fluctuations in the economy and the availability of credit ; though in the short term there has been quite a sharp increase in credit use at the close of the decade . |
| 4 | Sotheby 's told The Art Newspaper that ‘ there has been quite a large response to the Lloyd 's letter , but talks are going on with a view to possible changes in this arrangement ’ . |
| 5 | There has been quite a staggering traffic of internationals into and out of New Zealand and provincial teams in recent years — and now a highway has been invitingly posted . |
| 6 | Over that period there has been only a 10 per cent . |
| 7 | In the EC there has been only a limited introduction of expanded audit mandates by individual member countries . |
| 8 | These lowland soils are called Brown Earths because there has been only a small amount of leaching which leaves the humus and chemicals fairly evenly spread between the A and B horizons of the soil . |
| 9 | It was in fact anticipated that the establishment of the Library Instruction Materials Bank ( LIMB ) in 1977 would remove some of the duplication in production , but there has been only a small measure of success here . |
| 10 | Since 1985 there has been only a marginal reduction in mental hospital beds : ‘ I think we lost some somewhere ’ , as Dr Peter Verbraak , Director of de Grote Bek Hospital in Groningen , recently commented . |
| 11 | In Britain , however , there has been only a modest and localised recent recovery by the extreme right . |
| 12 | From the many written questions that my hon. Friend has tabled on this matter , I note not only that the numbers of people in residential and nursing care have increased substantially , as we all know , but also the surprising fact that there has been only a modest fall in the numbers of people in local authority care . |
| 13 | So far , there 've been more a dozen such incidents across the region , but a psychologist who 's been studying them is warning that they 'll be difficult to stop . |
| 14 | But there had been only a small decrease in mental hospital beds and little sign of a significant shift to different forms of care . |
| 15 | There had been quite a few successful ones , however . |
| 16 | Merseyside or Tyneside there had been almost a general deindustrialization . |
| 17 | There had been half a dozen bottles of red wine left standing in a corner of the huge kitchen hearth . |
| 18 | There have been over a thousand acts of piracy in the past ten years . |
| 19 | There have been half a dozen of those already apparently . |
| 20 | ‘ There have been quite a few calls from readers … |
| 21 | There have been quite a few changes in the Magazine Team over the past year . |
| 22 | There have been quite a few . |
| 23 | Ther there have been quite a few that have come out recently which I have n't briefed . |
| 24 | There have been quite a few happenings since then , but my fingers are getting tired , so I 'll save them for another article . |
| 25 | There have been only a small number of studies which have applied these techniques to bilingual data , for example : Auer 1981 , 1984a , 1984b ; Auer and Di Luzio 1983a , 1983b ; Tate 1984 ; Sebba and Wootton 1984 ; Milroy and Li Wei ( forthcoming ) . |
| 26 | There have been only a few exceptions to this general rule . |
| 27 | Moving further north , the United States has rather fewer volcanoes , and although there are some impressive cones such as those of Mt Shasta and Mt Rainier , both over 4,000 metres high , there have been only a few minor eruptions in historic times . |
| 28 | There have been only a few empirical studies of the relationship between volume and maturity . |
| 29 | Since J. C. Wells 's research on the phonological adaptations made by Jamaicans who had lived for a period in London ( Wells 1973 ) , there have been only a few detailed studies of the language of Caribbeans in Britain in spite of a good deal of interest in all aspects of Britain 's black population . |
| 30 | And er certainly in teaching there 's been quite a big change over the last ten years in the way that people perceive retirement . |