Example sentences of "have [been] [adj] of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Lastly , Mr Gandhi has been critical of the decision to let American aircraft refuel in India on their way to the Gulf . |
| 3 | The Thatcher Government has been critical of the growth of quangos . |
| 4 | X for Sparc and iAPX-86 has been one of the company 's most important achievements to date . |
| 5 | The issue on CD of these recordings which one tended lovingly on LP for so long has been one of the joys of my collection . |
| 6 | Water quality in the Danube has been one of the casualties of the war between Croatia and Serbia , according to the UN Industrial Development Organisation ( UNIDO ) . |
| 7 | Traditionally , the Tyne has been one of the bastions of British maritime power . |
| 8 | For more than fifty years , Danny Holland has been one of the premier cuts men in boxing . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Indeed the conclusion that such diverse aspects of society as religion , kinship , politics , and economics form a linked whole has been one of the touchstones of modern anthropology . |
| 11 | He has been one of the inspirations behind the anti-EC Conservative European Reform Group . |
| 12 | Restraint on overheads has been one of the secrets of Headline 's success . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Fraud has been one of the problems that the factors/invoice discounters have had to tackle during the recession . |
| 15 | That has been one of the problems of local government , not what the hon. Gentleman has referred to . |
| 16 | It has been one of the principle tenets of urethritis treatment policy that the patient should take no alcohol during the treatment period . |
| 17 | Over the same period , Joe has been one of the players who helped it develop from its infamy as the so-called sign of a mis-spent youth to become a symbol of sporting success . |
| 18 | It has been one of the cliches of modern liberalism , since at least the time of de Tocqueville and the younger Mill , to dwell on the possible , even probable , disjunction between democracy and liberty , to stress the fact that popular rule does not necessarily imply personal freedom , and to conjure up the spectacle of the " tyranny of the majority " . |
| 19 | The problem of deliberate self-poisoning and self-injury has placed enormous pressure on the stiff ( physicians , nurses , psychiatrists ) and services ( casualty and emergency departments , medical admission units , psychiatric and social work departments ) involved in the care of patients who take overdoses or injure themselves , and this has been one of the factors that has promoted a re-examination of previously accepted policies for the management of attempted suicide patients . |
| 20 | Her brother-in-law , Alan Harker senior , has been one of the makers and main carrier for many years . |
| 21 | Consistently over the last number of years this has been one of the events to sell out most quickly in the entire Festival programme . |
| 22 | Talcott Parsons has been one of the sociologists to realize this , contrary to what is often supposed , as will be shown later in this chapter . |
| 23 | Or how about Sir George Gardiner , the Thatcherite MP who has been one of the Major Government 's most persistent critics ? |
| 24 | Crosby said : ‘ Stamina has been one of the lad 's weaknesses and this could explain it . |
| 25 | Progression has been one of the keystones of the TVEI extension , and there are few secondary schools which are not committed to the concept that a student 's learning should grow out of , and build upon , what has been learned before . |
| 26 | Tony has been one of the representatives of the Belfast District Committee on the Executive since 1981 . |
| 27 | My friendship with Matthew has been one of the pleasures of this last year . |
| 28 | And she delivered : ‘ Now Is Early ’ , released in April , has been one of the highlights of the year . |
| 29 | Since its birth in the 1920s , air travel has been one of the world 's most heavily regulated industries . |
| 30 | 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 . |