Example sentences of "have [be] [adj] [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chief headache for publishers to date has been perpetual change in syllabuses , which can seriously affect or disrupt the publishing process . |
| 2 | David Oliver , Editor of our sister journal Airforces Monthly , has been probing inconsistencies in MoD replies relating to the retirement of the Vulcan . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . " |
| 5 | To the outside observer , there has been considerable change in classroom practice within this maths department . |
| 6 | Newspaper coverage in December 1987 identified a work force of 1300 in Press 's Tyne Yards but there has been considerable fluctuation in numbers depending on the state of contracts . |
| 7 | JOHN MCKAY , NDO for Management , has been seconded from Glasgow College where he has been Senior Lecturer in Marketing since 1973 . |
| 8 | SHe 'd been entertaining Nathan in Tammuz 's office , messing with the computer . |
| 9 | I think there would have been various difficulties in Mr. Ashworth 's path had he sought to pursue an argument based on strict estoppel . |
| 10 | The systematic study of a non-standard system , however , supports the argument that there could have been orderly variation in EModE involving merger and reversal patterns of /a/ and /Ε/; ( or /α/); in certain consonantal environments , and suggests that the usual account of the history of /a/ ( fronting to [ ae ] and subsequent split into two RP phonemes ) is oversimplified . |
| 11 | It is generally accepted that each person , man and woman , is made up of both masculine and feminine qualities , and it appears that in some lifetimes the masculine will have been predominant while in others it will have been the feminine . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | For goods , there had been tariff-free trade in manufactures since 1972 , but non-tariff barriers would now be removed . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Pablo Merry del Val , whose father had been Spanish Ambassador in London , conducted briefings for the correspondents and censored their dispatches . |
| 17 | He had been employed before 1917 in the archives of the foreign ministry and one of his ancestors on his mother 's side had been Russian ambassador in Vienna during the 1814 – 15 congress . |
| 18 | Violence had broken out , and there had been anti-Catholic riots in Belfast . |
| 19 | During these years there had been routine protests in places like the United Nations , which France ignored , and around the island of Moruroa itself involving the Greenpeace organisation . |
| 20 | Earlier that day there had been dramatic scenes in Tirana 's central Skanderbeg Square as protesters toppled a huge statue of Enver Hoxha , Albania 's hardline Stalinist leader from 1944 until his death in 1985 . |
| 21 | There have been similar incidents in Northumbria . |
| 22 | And there have been similar demonstrations in Gloucestershire which has a similar vote next week . |
| 23 | If we can now move down the clinical axis to level 5 — that of the individual patient — there have been various trials in techniques of patient costing ; designed by definition , to calculate the cost of treating each patient . |
| 24 | Over recent years , there have been various developments in health care planning with the aim of better meeting the needs of particular populations . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | There have been real gains in trade union education in Britain , through the TUC and through individual unions . |
| 27 | There have been great deeds in Barcelona , like that eighth athletics gold for Carl Lewis , the hurdles world record by Kevin Young , the three Kenyans who swept up the steeplechase medals . |
| 28 | First , there have been substantial improvements in mortality over this century which are reflected in increased life expectancy . |
| 29 | In the process area , there have been major developments in catalysts for polypropylene manufacture and in the technology for making chlorine and also ammonia — both very mature products indeed on the face of it but where the story has by no means ended , even after a century . |
| 30 | In addition , there have been major reforms in state provisions for pensioners . |