Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] have [been] the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ONLY a dealer who had just come back from a weekend in the Kalahari desert would have been surprised to hear of yesterday 's agreed £337.6m bid by MB Group for Caradon , the Twyfords and Everest building products group , so comprehensive has been the pre-match publicity . |
| 2 | I consider myself highly privileged to have been the first Minister for consumer protection in a completely independent consumer protection Department . |
| 3 | So poor has been the overall AGR performance , in fact , that it has actually resulted in a fall in the proportion of nuclear electricity produced on the CEGB system . |
| 4 | Perhaps more striking has been the disruptive impact on the NHS of many uncoordinated and poorly-managed projects . |
| 5 | Dornford Lane is much more likely to have been the former main road into Woodstock from Banbury which developed after 1154–74 , when Woodstock was founded as a royal town by Henry II . |
| 6 | More spectacular has been the recent observation of twin images of the same quasar source seen through a gravitational lens made up of galactic material nearer to the Earth . |
| 7 | Equally controversial has been the recently-introduced Employment Contracts Act that has drastically undercut the powers of the trade unions — to the extent that New Zealand may now be in breach of International Labour Organisation provisions . |
| 8 | Particularly impressive has been the major revival of the South East since the mid 1970s , but there has also been a return to strong growth in the other three regions of the South in the mid 1980s . |
| 9 | Equally notable has been the worsening relationship with leaders of the Church of England — for so long known as the Tory party at prayer . |
| 10 | Particularly satisfying has been the successful assault on the German market where for the first time the company has secured orders for filament-wound rollers . |
| 11 | Again falling household size has played an important role here in reducing the capacity of these areas , but equally significant have been the tight planning controls on urban development , particularly the wide Green Belts round most of the larger cities . |