Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] have been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years , the growth of National Certificate uptake has been especially strong in secondary schools . |
| 2 | Rita 's teaching experience has been enormously full and varied , including recreational classes ranging from her first class of East-enders at Plaistow to her university class at Newcastle 20 years later , courses for schoolchildren , for Civil Defence trainees and for physiotherapy students ( only this year , at the Sports Medicine exhibition , physiotherapists came up to the Medau stand to say that they had been taught Medau by Rita Quick ) , and work with the mentally ill and disabled . |
| 3 | This is , of course , a much shorter period than that represented in Figure 11.1 , but it does show that the growth of the real money stock has been consistently faster than the growth of real GDP . |
| 4 | But Mum 's tie-breaker slogan had been so clever she 'd won the competition and now here they were in Malta . |
| 5 | Not only have food costs been above average , but the labour turnover has been relatively high , which is a little odd since Fred is generally considered to be genial and well liked ( though we must add that we have found no evidence that this is true as far as his staff are concerned ) . |
| 6 | specific points in the development of people , whilst that we recognise that the partners in practice was going to go into a quiet spell er something but we would run the risk if that happened on losing the expertise , the skill base that we 've got there and the undoubted qualities of the people within , we had to find a way in which we could use that skill base and other practice er of the practice and in fact that 's been quite successfully achieved in in recent months er with due diligence work for example er with legal support work is another example , when people in the insolvency practice have been very active on special science weeks ago tree . |
| 7 | Because the queues at the sandwich bar had been so horrendous that she had decided to go without lunch and now she was feeling disconnected and light-headed . |
| 8 | The housing charity , Shelter , was in at the beginning of the Housing Advice Centre movement and the Child poverty Action Group has been extremely active in the field of welfare rights . |
| 9 | Since these are being funded from new money ( the National Science Foundation will continue to fund basic research from its existing money ) , the reaction of the Swiss research community has been broadly favourable to these plans for oriented research . |
| 10 | The company believed in survival of the fittest and during 1988/9 turnover in salespersons was just under two years on average ; four years previously the turnover period had been nearly three years . |
| 11 | Finally those most involved are more likely to change their view of the scheme after the review had taken place and to consider that the review process has been more worthwhile . |
| 12 | ‘ The blood transfusion has been quite effective for the anaemia , but she 's going to need more . |
| 13 | In the USA a strong politics — administration dichotomy has been more controversial . |
| 14 | The outer windows had been smashed and the cut stone had been severely fissured . |
| 15 | Luckily , Avril 's course work had been so good she only had to finish her dissertation to pass — which she did . |
| 16 | Goodbye and good riddance to the propaganda parade Television coverage of the election campaign has been so much oil on shallow water . |
| 17 | The management committee have been very impressed with Llansantffraid and the way in which they 've gone about their improvements . |
| 18 | Both AT2 and AT3 thought that the Senior Management Team had been pleasantly surprised at what the review had revealed : that all the pupils liked Art and that classroom organisation was so efficient . |
| 19 | No wonder Folly had been so sure that Tony was the one … |
| 20 | Although common law jurisdictions are more willing to validate judicial customs that create documents of title than are civil law jurisdictions even in common law validation has been mostly legislative . |
| 21 | The shipbuilding story has been more complex . |
| 22 | Your response to our membership campaign has been most encouraging . |
| 23 | The intervention period has been too short All children learn at different rates . |
| 24 | ‘ We have been rewarded with significant new business in tableware and giftware and , in particular , the response to our bridal tableware marketing strategy has been very encouraging indeed . |
| 25 | Kylie 's astute accountant father had been particularly impressed by Blamey 's management of stars like Mark ‘ Jacko ’ Jackson . |
| 26 | The New Zealand Forest Corporation had been highly successful in its three years of operation . |
| 27 | The transmat journey had been as brief , uneventful and nauseating as she had expected . |
| 28 | The Nazification drive had been remarkably successful by this time . |
| 29 | During the 1980s population growth has been very uneven ; in the most general terms there has been a decline of population in the less prosperous North and gains in the prosperous South . |
| 30 | Screening of newborns for Duchenne muscular dystrophy by measurement of blood spot creatine kinase activity has been technically possible since a suitable assay was devised in the mid 1970s . |