Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] have been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the furore about asylum has been more recent in Great Britain than elsewhere in Europe , it has on occasion been as fierce , particularly as orchestrated by parts of the right-wing tabloid press . |
| 2 | It is only our more ambivalent age , engaged in the very last mopping-up of the great wet waste which challenged our ancestors , which has begun to question whether the price of progress has been too high . |
| 3 | In recent years , that pace of change has been particularly rapid . |
| 4 | In particular I think it should be recognised that the role of the unions , NALGO and G M D in helping that process of change has been quite fundamental and for that reason , because we appreciate and value the essential way in which the unions have contributed to the process of changing the organisation I consider that the they much trailed proposals from the opposition groups to cut , or in the other case , to reduce the NALGO office are quite misguided . |
| 5 | To have quoted a range of rates ( often varying quite widely around these typical figures ) would of course have been more comprehensive , but less helpful because of the way that the extremes of the ranges would have blurred the comparison between types . |
| 6 | They may of course have been quite coincidental ; but already there was a link , was there not ? |
| 7 | A weapon like a stone sword would of course have been quite impracticable . |
| 8 | Despite the limited size of the Urban Programme , the administration of grant has been consistently problematic ( West Midlands County Council , 1986 ; Stewart , 1987 ) . |
| 9 | You can fiddle with brightness settings , depending on which scanner you use — and WSP supports most — should you need to , but we have found little need to adjust the settings unless a page of text has been particularly light or very dark . |
| 10 | This research aims , first , to explain why the general pattern of income has been largely resistant to attempts at change through legislation , government policy and interest-group pressure ; secondly , to review the many kinds of research on income distribution ; thirdly , to identify criteria for , and means of , improvement . |
| 11 | As with the German scheme , the reaction of industry has been largely hostile . |
| 12 | Previously , the post of president had been largely ceremonial , with power concentrated in the higher echelons of the ruling Lao People 's Revolutionary Party ( LPRP ) and the Council of Ministers . |
| 13 | It is for these reasons that levels one and two of partnership have been more prevalent than level three . |
| 14 | The Board of Admiralty had been well aware since 1955 that the US Navy 's Polaris-armed submarines might become the capital ships of the future , and might prove to be more invulnerable as mobile launch platforms for the nuclear deterrent than the US Air Force 's Skybolt , if it too was successfully developed . |
| 15 | It is possible , then , that the idea of antiracism has been so discredited that it is no longer useful . |
| 16 | I would like to say that , that the level of violence has been fairly static , but at the same time we are able to tolerate certain levels of violence . |
| 17 | In many cases the studies have concentrated on populations of a single species within 1 m² ; quadrats , though sometimes the reductionist level of study has been yet smaller — a scale of 1 cm² ; ( Thorhallsdottir , 1983 ) . |
| 18 | There have been many periods in the past when the degree of concentration has been significantly large ( Table 4. 1 ) and when such degrees of concentration have generated calls for inquiries . |
| 19 | Bearing these problems and points in mind , the participant observation method of research has been particularly effective in the study of crime . |
| 20 | It is true to say , however , that since the business has become mature , the period of readjustment has been extremely painful and very few fibre companies have made much money over the last decade . |
| 21 | Family size at longer durations of marriage has been rather stable in recent years ; the similarity of family building of people born in the 1960s to that of the 1920s does not imply much reduction in family size . |
| 22 | Apart from a glass of lager at dinner she had been drinking only fruit juices , while Rune 's own consumption of lager had been only moderate , not enough to have much effect on a man of such highly tuned physique , she comforted herself . |
| 23 | The table also shows that the net rate of return has been consistently lower in the UK than in the other countries . |
| 24 | Since 1860 , as far as we can tell , three items that were formerly alternants have been reclassified as categorical [ u ] items ( Patterson , 1860 ) ; thus , the speed of transfer has been very slow , and the set as a whole has been quite resistant to change . |
| 25 | In the years since the present conflict began , resources devoted to the eradication of illiteracy have been grossly insufficient . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , ’ Ellen said , ‘ I am very fond of my husband , in spite of my western ways , and I know he has a great respect for you , Nerina ; and is thrilled about your publishing contract , and any betrayal of confidence has been totally inadvertent . |
| 27 | A related reason for the failure is that in this century , as far as armed combat is concerned , the record of the laws of war has been distinctly uneven . |
| 28 | The revolutionising effects of war have been very pronounced in Russian history ; the USSR will not lightly embark on war , because she knows that a setback to the state could present a peril to the regime . |
| 29 | It is obvious that humans have far bigger brains than even our closest relatives and the fossil record suggests that the rate of evolution has been spectacularly fast , the brain size more than doubling in less than two million years ( see e.g. Foley , Another unique Species ) . |
| 30 | What has been happening in Latin America is that the growth of education has been much faster than structural change in society , with the result that some of the potential value of education for social mobility is lost . |