Example sentences of "and [pron] has [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In social security there is the retirement condition , which governs the receipt of the state retirement pension and which has been a major factor in the establishment of the pension ages as the customary retirement ages for men and women ( Walker 1980 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ The lessons are available to everyone and there has been a 75 per cent take up , ’ said , marketing services manager and one of the participants . |
| 3 | In industrialised countries , such rudimentary amenities as piped water and sanitation have long been taken for granted and there has been a virtual elimination of major infectious diseases over the past century . |
| 4 | We have described this process earlier ( chapter 6 ) , and it seems to occur in every case where fingerspelling has been available for some time and there has been a strong hearing influence . |
| 5 | Considerable use has been made of actuality , especially in BBC regional weekly , review programmes , and there has been a reasonable amount of committee coverage . |
| 6 | Specialization has often assembled both primary and secondary material for a specific area or topic in a centre such as the Hoover library at Stanford in California , and there has been a plenteous growth of specialist periodicals and learned societies . |
| 7 | It is nearly a year and a half since David Howell , the then Secretary of State for Energy , announced that Sir Frank would be the inspector at the public inquiry into the plans of the Central Electricity Generating Board to build a pressurised-water reactor ( PWR ) at Sizewell in Suffolk , and there has been a veritable deluge of documentation from all sides in the past 18 months , giving Sir Frank more than enough preliminary reading . |
| 8 | Many librarians have written in to protest at what has been happening and there has been a good deal of debate behind closed doors ; but , as will be shown here , the ultimate explanation is the rise of semi-literacy and the acceptance of it by the modern descendants of the great Victorians . |
| 9 | None the less , in very many cases ‘ hands-on ’ care is still required and there has been a distinct failure to understand the needs of discharged patients for continuing support of this kind . |
| 10 | A major campaign was launched regarding the wearing of cycle helmets and there has been a great response , favourable response to this , cutting down enormously under a number of fatal accidents involving pedal cyclists . |
| 11 | Whenever there has been a whiff of financial scandal in the past , the Opposition , very much to their credit , have raised it and brought it before the public , and there has been a great hue and cry about it . |
| 12 | Although 30 seconds , traditionally the most popular format , still accounts for the largest single share of commercial airtime , 20-second commercials are increasingly popular , and there has been a general tendency over the years for the average commercial to get shorter . |
| 13 | in the past year , and there has been a marked increase in temporary and part-time working . |
| 14 | ‘ They have not really seen training as an effective means of improving the country and there has been a steady decline in Britain 's industry as a result . ’ |
| 15 | And there has been a remarkable interchange of ideas between computational theorists and neuroscientists , in which attempts to create computer models of neural function have not only generated powerful new tools for the interpreting of the brain but have also fed back into computer theory and practice . |
| 16 | As long ago now as 1974 , Michael Maguire argued a need for a semantic ethnography of police systems and the criminals they pursue ; and there has been a subsequent trickle of attempts to carry out participant observation inside the world of ‘ cops and robbers ’ . |
| 17 | No triad is included , and there has been a deliberate attempt to contradict conventional harmonic usage and produce a stressful harmonic feeling . |
| 18 | We have revised our premium rates because of the continuing increase in the cost of theft claims — 1983 saw a 24% increase over 1982 and there has been a further 12% increase in the first half of 1984 . |
| 19 | And there has been a rapid growth in three types of industry : light factory industry , services and tourism . |
| 20 | The estate agency sector has been one of the most dynamic industrial sectors in 1980s Britain , and there has been a large growth both in the number of firms of estate agents and in the numbers employed within these firms . |
| 21 | As my hon. Friend rightly pointed out , no patient in his area waits for more than two years and there has been a dramatic fall in the number of those who have to wait a year . |
| 22 | After a boom , inflation has gone up and there has been a disastrous showing on the balance of payments . |
| 23 | ‘ We started because we had so many enquiries about holiday courses , and it has been a tremendous success , ’ says Angela Payne , deputy director of the college . |
| 24 | The Elizabethans certainly did like it , and it has been a popular favourite ever since . |
| 25 | They are very good acts and it has been a tough battle to get through . ’ |