Example sentences of "have [been] [adj] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in the field of its own procedures that the Court of Appeal , in the past , has been receptive to the claim of substantive justice . |
| 2 | On other occasions committees have been generally in support of government action but have urged that it be undertaken more vigorously : the Defence Committee has been critical of the Ministry of Defence when it has spent less than the sums provided in the annual estimates . |
| 3 | Lastly , Mr Gandhi has been critical of the decision to let American aircraft refuel in India on their way to the Gulf . |
| 4 | The Thatcher Government has been critical of the growth of quangos . |
| 5 | X for Sparc and iAPX-86 has been one of the company 's most important achievements to date . |
| 6 | For more than fifty years , Danny Holland has been one of the premier cuts men in boxing . |
| 7 | The ineffectiveness of both Emburey and Tufnell has been one of the tour 's major shocks and together with Philip DeFreitas 's injury has left England looking somewhat toothless . |
| 8 | Ironically , it has been one of the board 's own employees , Dr Ross Hesketh , who has been questioning many of the rather bland assurances on what has happened to British plutonium from the civil programme . |
| 9 | It has been one of the principle tenets of urethritis treatment policy that the patient should take no alcohol during the treatment period . |
| 10 | Crosby said : ‘ Stamina has been one of the lad 's weaknesses and this could explain it . |
| 11 | Since its birth in the 1920s , air travel has been one of the world 's most heavily regulated industries . |
| 12 | FOR more than six years the race between America , Europe and Japan to establish technical standards for their own versions of high-definition television ( HDTV ) has been one of the world 's great technological rivalries , pitting the market-driven regulatory approach of America against the government-led industrial policies favoured in Japan and Europe . |
| 13 | For many years the People 's Republic of China has been one of the world 's leading conventional arms and nuclear technology exporters . |
| 14 | The continuing strength of the dollar has been good for the group , as many shipbuilding and most shipping contracts are priced in dollars , and both Finland and Norway have gained a competitive edge against both the US and Germany . |
| 15 | ISOSCELES , the debt-burdened Gateway supermarket group , has appointed Bob Nellist as finance director , a post which has been vacant since the departure of Elizabeth Hignell last September . |
| 16 | In reply , Sir Derek said that though he could not speak for other directors , ‘ my resignation has been available to the board from the day all this started . |
| 17 | In the light of what has been available on the market between 1986 and 1989 , it is fascinating to see what was not acquired as well as what has been bought . |
| 18 | Hitachi Ltd has a new tool for use in building diagnostic and consulting expert systems : called ES-Pormote2/W-DIAG , it is designed to enable the input of knowledge in a tree structure , and it has been available from the beginning of the month at $6,000 ; it runs on the Hitachi 3050 series of Unix workstations and can be used to generate a source code program for Hitachi 's ES/Kernel series of general purpose expert system development tools ; ES-Promote runs under Hitachi 's implementation of Motif and the X Window system . |
| 19 | He declared : ‘ It also demonstrates how misleading has been much of the coverage of this issue , in the Press and elsewhere . ’ |
| 20 | Yesterday , chairman of the council , Phyll Hendy , said : ‘ He has been unswerving in the service he has given to the parish and has been kind and co-operative to everyone . |
| 21 | He has used ‘ other Texels ’ and has been disappointed with the grading results . |
| 22 | It appears to me that the arguments which I have heard involve the consideration of three separate questions , namely : ( 1 ) does the ex turpi causa maxim and its related rules ( which I will refer to as ‘ the ex turpi causa defence ’ ) afford a defence to a claim for contribution under the Act of 1978 ? ( 2 ) If the ex turpi causa defence is capable of so applying , can it be said , with the degree of certainty necessary for a striking out order to be made , that the defence will exclude any contribution from the third party in the circumstances of this case ? ( 3 ) Leaving aside the ex turpi causa defence , can it be said with the necessary degree of certainty that the court will , under section 2(1) and ( 2 ) of the Act of 1978 , exempt the third party from liability to make contribution even if he has been negligent in the performance of some duty of care owed to the plaintiffs ? |
| 23 | A positive test result means that antibodies have been found and means that HIV has been present in the body . |
| 24 | It has been present from the beginning as a primitive rhythm , that element associated with the ‘ auditory imagination ’ of poetry , and so with the savage in the jungle and his gods , ‘ His rhythm was present in the nursery bedroom … |
| 25 | Her concern with the development of children 's thinking has been present from the start of her academic career , when she was considerably influenced by the European School , and notably Piaget . |
| 26 | This marketing approach to products has been beneficial for the consumer because it determines what a company will sell based on what the consumer wants , or the market place is ready to discover and buy , rather than on hope and guesswork . |
| 27 | So the psychology of the course was created and this has been integral to the development of the tournament . |
| 28 | After months of pursuing its quarry , it looks like IXI Ltd has finally nailed down the OEM agreement with DEC for its X.desktop manager that has been long in the making . |
| 29 | New enterprises and institutions are not created de novo , out of nothing ; they emerge from a fabric of events which is already complex , which has been long in the weaving , and from which they take their characteristic shape and colour . |
| 30 | The Marquess of Lothian initiated the Country House Scheme , which has been central to the preservation of great houses and their contents . |