Example sentences of "have been [adj] [noun] in [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 David Oliver , Editor of our sister journal Airforces Monthly , has been probing inconsistencies in MoD replies relating to the retirement of the Vulcan .
2 There has been progress in design , but no progress in accomplishment , specifically because there has been equal progress in design on both sides of the arms race .
3 Notwithstanding problems of this kind there has been undoubted improvement in VDU design and it has been speculated that trade union pressure for high design standards has been a major stimulus to companies marketing their products on the basis of user acceptability . "
4 To the outside observer , there has been considerable change in classroom practice within this maths department .
5 JOHN MCKAY , NDO for Management , has been seconded from Glasgow College where he has been Senior Lecturer in Marketing since 1973 .
6 Other documents imply the existence of lay archives , and this is hardly surprising in a world in which there may have been considerable literacy in Anglo-Saxon .
7 Deirdre joined the literature committee in 1985 after the closure of Craiglockhart College of Education , where she had been principal lecturer in English , and so began a second career .
8 He was a national hero , he had been Supreme Commander in South East Asia during the Second World War , the last Viceroy and first Governor General of India , first Sea Lord , and finally Chief of the Defence Staff .
9 Over recent years , there have been various developments in health care planning with the aim of better meeting the needs of particular populations .
10 Over the decades since the First World War , with the introduction of new forms of energy , the development of labour saving devices and changes in food and menus , there have been radical changes in kitchen design .
11 There have been real gains in trade union education in Britain , through the TUC and through individual unions .
12 First , there have been substantial improvements in mortality over this century which are reflected in increased life expectancy .
13 In addition , there have been major reforms in state provisions for pensioners .
14 There have been particular measures in north Lanarkshire , but the matter goes way beyond that .
15 Three quarters of a million people — one quarter of the entire population of Colonel Gadaffi 's Jamahiriyah — demonstrated in Tripoli on January 18 and there have been mass demonstrations in support of Iraq in Tunis ever since late August last year .
16 There have been considerable changes in vocabulary and slight changes in pronunciation over the last fifty years .
17 There have been important changes in patient care in our hospitals , and this includes care of the over-75's .
18 Thus , streams , rivers , and particularly springs and wells have been important considerations in settlement siting .
19 In addition there have been significant decreases in fertility over the same period .
20 For the North American white population aged 65 + there have been significant decreases in mortality from stroke and ischaemic heart disease .
21 There have been significant advances in management techniques in industry , and over the past five years CAC has been actively developing ways of transferring TQM education into new working behaviour and attitudes .
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