Example sentences of "[art] [noun] have been [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last month Amnesty International called for all charges against him to be withdrawn and concluded : ‘ At every stage the behaviour of the authorities has been in open defiance of the authority of the courts and the rule of law . ’ |
| 2 | The colt has been in constant demand for the 2,000 Guineas and is a 12–1 chance . |
| 3 | The British Library Research and Development Department , which , along with the National Foundation for Educational Research in England and Wales and the Schools Council , has funded most of this research , is aware of that problem , and using a standing committee called the Discussion Group on User Education in Schools , it is endeavouring to bring the research into general practice , and even to extend the influence of the work into other levels of education , eg primary schools ( the concentration has been on secondary education so far ) . |
| 4 | However the research has been of variable quality , there are conflicting findings , and the full implications for practice remain unclear . |
| 5 | ‘ Previously the losses have been through voluntary redundancies or retirements , losing some of our most experienced officers . |
| 6 | Even in countries where housing standards have improved immeasurably , and the promotion of safety in the home has been of long-standing concern , the problem of accidents is one of some magnitude . |
| 7 | The King of the Tipsters has been in unstoppable form since he struck with another 4-1 shot , Pursuit Of Love , at Doncaster last week . |
| 8 | About 90 per cent of development in the zones has been for industrial or warehouse use . |
| 9 | Just how successful the campaign has been in straight money terms ( costs per account opened ) is unclear but the advertising is undoubtedly asking to have a different relationship with the viewer than the more passive tradition of the medium . |
| 10 | The Cooperative had been in severe financial difficulties for several years and in 1981 , after its own bank had withdrawn its support , it turned for help to the Canadian Cooperative Credit Society . |
| 11 | The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order . |
| 12 | It is further urged upon me that the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact with each other , and the justices being satisfied that there were grounds for believing that both the children were likely to suffer significant harm , which was a specific finding that they made , they were plainly wrong in refusing to make an interim order in that they first of all failed to have regard to the fact that the parents had colluded over the cause of D. 's injuries , and there was evidence to that effect ; secondly , that the mother had lied to social services , Dr. Barnardo 's and the guardian about having had at the relevant times no contact with the father — and that is indeed what the mother has done , she has lied ; and , thirdly , that the father had been in breach of a term of the bail conditions which had been imposed upon him , not only on 23 December 1991 but ever since his release in as much as he had visited and contacted the mother . |
| 13 | ‘ The North has been through hard times but things are changing , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , governments have come to accept the extravagant version as a taboo , and , like many such myths , its influence over the years has been in inverse proportion to its constitutional validity . |
| 15 | US Senate armed services committee chairman Sam Nunn asked the Defence Department to conduct a further investigation , citing the statement in the ABC broadcast by Adml. ( retd ) William Crowe , former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , that the Vincennes had been in Iranian waters when it fired the missile , not in international waters as previously claimed . |
| 16 | ‘ If the business had been in good heart it would have cost you a great deal more . |
| 17 | The standard model of local government since the war has been of multi-functional authorities with an elected council supervising the direct provision of services . |
| 18 | But many of the studies have been on non-diabetic subjects and the hypoglycaemic stimulus was not always identical . |
| 19 | This may indicate that the conflict has been over peripheral matters , that a core belief in a transcendent power could retain its plausibility , untouched by changing conceptions of the physical world . |
| 20 | With the company rejecting this request , the workers have gone on strike … while the strike has been in full swing a second union has been organized by 800 workers under the auspices of Zenro [ right-wing union federation ] with a new slogan of ‘ immediate acceptance of dismissals and reopening of production ’ . |
| 21 | However , against the background of government concern over inner-city disturbances , picket line violence , the Greenham Common demonstrations and other large scale protests , the emphasis has been on preserving order and minimising public inconvenience rather than facilitating effective protest . |
| 22 | Since the Federal Court in the Eastern District of Texas , and subsequently the Fifth Circuit Federal Appellate Court seated in New Orleans intervened , the pendulum has swung and the emphasis has been on detailed rules to cover all contingencies , the implementation of which is far less dependent on the quality of individual personnel . |
| 23 | Indeed , in most examples , the emphasis has been on social systems in which males sporting the elaborate character are polygamous and have little to do with other aspects of reproduction . |
| 24 | The problem we in Europe face is that Japanese companies have been active in scaling up production for some years , whereas in Europe the emphasis has been on high-quality research , which has only been significantly exploited in the area of basic liquid crystal materials . |
| 25 | Rather than classes on directly social or political topics , the emphasis has been upon issue-based provision , in the first instance , as a means to develop work , where appropriate and possible , with a broader scope ( hence courses in Housing , Welfare Rights , Health Care , etc. rather than in Social Policy , Politics etc . ) . |
| 26 | The profits have been in public relations for a long time but too often those in charge have refused to invest some measure of it in capital equipment that would improve client services and the daily life of their workers . |
| 27 | But for centuries now — like the rest of Old Delhi — the area has been in slow decay . |
| 28 | Over recent years , the parish has been of great interest archaeologically and excavations have revealed signs of occupation from neolithic man to the Middle Ages . |
| 29 | The economy had been in serious trouble during 1972 and 1973 . |
| 30 | The barrier had been in perfect order when I arrived — boards secure , nailheads flush — so through I 'd come , tugging it all closed behind me . |