Example sentences of "have [been] [adv] [adj] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain has been notoriously ineffective in dealing with offences like financial fraud , market manipulation and insider dealing . |
| 2 | As manager , Assessment Operations , Mike has been closely involved in establishing the detail of the model and in the methods of scoring and assessing applications . |
| 3 | Other authors have suggested that it has been the process of secularisation which has been most central in giving rise to moral protest groups . |
| 4 | The Commission has been most helpful in authorizing Commissioners — or more usually senior officials — to travel from Brussels to give oral evidence in public . |
| 5 | Campion has been most industrious in routing out items in the archives of radio stations . |
| 6 | He has been most generous in giving way . |
| 7 | The ratio of stable isotopes in marble ( see glossary ) can also be used to determine provenance , and has been particularly useful in checking the integrity of statuary recomposed from fragments ( see p. 109 ) . |
| 8 | Petrology has been particularly helpful in identifying Neolithic stone axes made from the hard rocks which predominate in western Britain from Cornwall to Scotland . |
| 9 | Britain has been particularly fortunate in acquiring the sorts of institutions which she did acquire . |
| 10 | It has been particularly effective in providing a secure home base for families that have been physically scattered by emigration and it seems quite possible that small-scale farming of this kind may enjoy a new vogue , with the greater appreciation of self-provisioning , especially for fuel , to say nothing of the scenic beauty of the places where it is carried on . |
| 11 | The MERCAD system has been particularly successful in reducing the need for hot work offshore and the company has secured contracts with a number of major North Sea oil operators . |
| 12 | In recent years it has been particularly successful in treating respiratory and urinary tract infections , gastrointestinal infections , infections of the skin and skin structures , bone and joint infections and sexually transmitted diseases . |
| 13 | The modern historical novel has been particularly successful in giving convincing pictures of moments of history as experienced by young women as well as ‘ plucky boys ’ : Jill Paton Walsh 's A parcel of patterns , Hester Burton 's Time of trial , and K. M. Peyton 's Flambards novels are examples and , as experienced by ‘ the lower orders ’ , Barbara Willard 's Ned only and K. M. Peyton 's The right-hand man . |
| 14 | This has resulted in improved borehole conditions enabling the recording of greatly superior quality of log information ; a dolomite mud has been particularly successful in keeping the borehole in perfect shape . |
| 15 | Michael Anderson 's work has been particularly important in establishing the significance of considering the material gains for either or both parties , if we wish to understand why people lived with relatives in the past . |
| 16 | Such a model has been influential in the way we think about and respond to a variety of social problems but has been particularly significant in framing research , policy and practice in child abuse . |
| 17 | The National Health Strategy initiative has been particularly valuable in documenting the evidence on inequalities in access to and quality of healthcare . |
| 18 | Rhodes Boyson , the trouble-shooting panjandrum of the new moral conservatism , has been particularly energetic in admonishing the ‘ mindless sociologists ’ and ‘ all that mush ’ which has corrupted the national character . |
| 19 | Brian Jackson has been particularly responsible for highlighting the problem of the child minder , especially the ‘ illegal ’ ( unregistered ) child minder . |
| 20 | Much recent historicist revisionism within the early modern period has been particularly vocal in opposing those who attempt to discover an organised political character among those groups outside the formal organisation of official state policy . |
| 21 | Over the last fifteen years , SAVE has been continuously involved in campaigning to secure the future of disused , decaying and neglected country houses . |
| 22 | Of course , sometimes we do feel that the other person has been rather abrupt in ending the conversation , and that is the moment when we should do our ethnomethodological analysis to identify what it was that they , or we , failed to do as part of bringing the conversation to a proper and recognizable end . |
| 23 | So , while the stock market boom has played a crucial part in entrenching the wealth position of those who own most , the spread of owner-occupation , coupled with the rapid rise in house prices , has been largely responsible for extending the scope of capital ownership to well over 60 per cent of the population . |
| 24 | There is no doubt that this work has been enormously fruitful in pointing out the detailed strategies and rhetorical manoeuvres involved in the expression of racism . |
| 25 | The Italian group has been principally interested in following the dynamics of population growth among the feral animals . |
| 26 | In linguistics , the seminal work of Grimes ( 1975 ) , Halliday and Hasan ( 1976 ) and van Dijk ( 1977 ) has been equally fruitful in prompting new insights into how texts are bound together beyond the sentence . |
| 27 | However , Sukenick has been equally consistent in rejecting the view that such a direction marks a narcissistic introversion of fiction , arguing instead that he has engaged more directly with his culture . |
| 28 | Since 1944 the education service has been singularly unsuccessful in achieving greater equality of opportunity , use or outcome . |
| 29 | America inherited Britain 's thankless task of trying to maintain a semblance of stability in the Middle East , and has been singularly unsuccessful in doing so over the three decades that have passed since Suez . |
| 30 | The reduction in strikes has been overwhelmingly important in attracting foreign investment to this country on a scale for which there is no precedent . |