Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rubella ( German measles ) can cause devastating damage to the fetus in early pregnancy and girls who have not had an attack of this disease by the age of puberty are offered immunisation against this virus so that any baby conceived would be protected , although this should soon be rare in the UK because from 1988 , MMR ( measles , mumps , rubella ) protection has been available to all infants . |
| 2 | So our support has been subject to redefined guidelines , as you 'd expect from any efficient organisation . |
| 3 | McLaren boss Teddy Mayer as much as admitted at the end of 1975 that he thought Emerson wanted to move — or that he was in personal trouble of one kind and another — but the official news reached Hunt before it got to the team , and got to Hunt through Domingos Piedade , an eccentric figure close to the cheerful groupie Googie Zanon , a wealthy ( textiles ) Italian aristocrat whose support has been crucial to many drivers at critical points in their career , then ‘ manager ’ to Emerson and now to Ayrton Senna — a fringe career from which Domingos , hugely personable , but also often more a talker than a doer , has made a more than reasonable living . |
| 4 | The national park has been concerned for some time about the volume of heavy lorries using roads through the park . |
| 5 | And in looking at the experience not merely of Asia , but also of Africa , what becomes increasingly apparent is that most development strategies have tended _ particularly when we look at technical change — erm have tended to bypass women , or in many cases one also notes that the impact of technical change has been detrimental to poor women , and examples of this can be found , for instance , in terms of adoption of certain kinds of technique , like mechanisation of rice processing in parts of Asia , where one finds that there has been a large scale displacement of landless women . |
| 6 | The pace of educational change has been swift in recent years . |
| 7 | The idea that dreaming is essential for sanity has been prevalent in popular science since the eighteenth century . |
| 8 | Next in schedule three there is provision to compensate Mr and Mrs for the extra work involved in caring for Paul , it is agreed that er since they are in the special position of course of being Paul 's carers they are , not er , I mean no disrespect to nursing but they 're not erm it is agreed that there should a deduction of twenty five percent , that would give an annual figure of two thousand , six hundred and thirty one times four will amount to ten thousand five hundred and twenty four pounds , adding these figures together , future care during schooling comes if my addition has been accurate to ninety three thousand , six hundred and fifty pounds in total . |
| 9 | The world recession has been tough for all of us , at home and abroad . |
| 10 | ‘ The visitors ’ centre here opened about 18 months ago although the reserve has been open since 1977 and slowly we 're building it up . |
| 11 | The leadership election has been uncontested since 1975 . |
| 12 | The board has been concerned for some years about the possible impact of excessive dependence on coal — used for 80 per cent of electricity currently generated — if developments in the domestic or international coal market push prices up rapidly . |
| 13 | And some of the buildup play has been tremendous in this period of time . |
| 14 | Assume as before that national income has been constant for several time periods at £1,000 , and that autonomous investment is initially equal to £500 . |
| 15 | " As you know , Sara , your aunt 's income has been dwindling of late years — she was very careless of investments and spent too much of her capital . |
| 16 | Moreover , to offer vocational courses such as TEC and BEC , where these were not previously available , would have required suitably qualified staff and appropriate facilities at a time of recession when money has been available for neither . |
| 17 | The idea that teachers should adopt a research perspective in their teaching has been current in educational thinking ( in Britain at least ) for a good number of years , associated in particular with the work of Stenhouse and Elliott ( for example , Stenhouse 1975 ; Elliott 1981 ) . |
| 18 | Tumin claims that the American Medical Association has been guilty of this practice . |
| 19 | The warehouse has been empty for many years , but holding repairs have meant at least that water penetration to the fabric is reduced . |
| 20 | And it 's particularly , I think , acute in the parish of Saint Mary 's and Saint John 's because the vicarage has been empty for two years and erm they built a new house , it was more it was cheaper to build a new house than to do the old one up , but there it 's been sat , empty for two years , and erm they 've been trying to find a buyer . |
| 21 | The IT industry has been subject to rapid development in recent years and it is confidently expected that this trend will continue . |
| 22 | The critic as advocate has been fortunate in twentieth-century France , where a climate of culture has brought art and literature together ; also art and philosophy , in the case of Jean-Paul Sartre 's advocacy of Giacometti , in whose emaciated figure sculptures the philosopher saw a metaphor of human struggle , even , as he wrote in an article in Les Temps modernes in 1948 , ‘ the fleshless martyrs of Buchenwald ’ . |
| 23 | The overall effect has been unfortunate in two different ways . |
| 24 | Solar changes were the main cause from 1750 to 1850 , but the greenhouse effect has been dominant in recent decades . |
| 25 | In fact the light has been green for some time already . |
| 26 | Moreover , there is little to suggest that public-sector investment has been successful in encouraging equivalent private spending . |
| 27 | The whole instrument has been edge-bound in attractive ivoroid , which is destined to turn slightly yellow with the passing of time . |
| 28 | Over the last five years British agricultural research has been subject to major reorganisation . |
| 29 | In the case of Japan , writers such as Fox ( 1980 ) stress that long-term planning based on market research has been vital in those areas where innovation , and not just importation , of technology has occurred in Japan , such as the consumer electronics industry . |
| 30 | The seat had been Tory since 1970 and had been held since 1974 by Sir Charles , who retained it with a sizeable personal vote . |