Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] been [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Hair has been roller set to give lift to the roots and movement to the ends .
2 Hair has been roller set to give body and volume .
3 Will he confirm that in every year and for every authority recently in Greater Manchester , the amount of money that the Government have allowed them to spend on capital projects has been way behind what they have needed , with the result that there is now a backlog of repairs and maintenance ?
4 The winner has been apathy and the loser democracy .
5 This latter finding has been point out by some authors , noting that the mean age at the time of the diagnosis of Barrett 's oesophagus was about 55 years , which is the same as the value found in our study .
6 Despite its success — eight out of 11 young people have got jobs — no definite funding has been body .
7 March has been part of the Grand Prix racing scene for more than 20 years , but recent lack of sponsorship has meant staff at Bicester have n't been paid for over 5 months .
8 Marcus has been kind enough to come here .
9 Since leaving South Morecambe , Colin has been manager responsible for CCG projects all over the country , as far as Hull , Peterhead , Essex , Nottingham and Lincoln .
10 Professor Stewart has been Secretary and Deputy Chairman of the Agricultural and Food Research Council since 1988 .
11 British Nuclear Fuels has been find £7,500 plus costs after admitting the unauthorized disposal of radioactive waste .
12 In his time Taylor has been part of the North-East 's industrial traditional first as managing director of the now defunct Head facility at Stockton and later at Aycliffe-based Eaton Axles .
13 Aged 38 , Lina has been secretary to the general manager for three years .
14 A pretty , asymmetric bob has been precision styled to maximise the smooth , shiny finish .
15 Letzkus ( 1980 , p. 181 ) states that ‘ it appears that the concept of ZBB has been oversold .
16 A further problem with the interpretation of some previous studies of mucosal metabolism has been concern that the procedure used for isolating a pure epithelial cell population from resected bowel specimens may itself have introduced artefacts , and that these artefactual changes might well have been different in the inflamed colitic tissue from those in the histologically normal colon .
17 Where trade has proved damaging for whatever reason , the result has been estrangement .
18 The result has been fragmentation in political life .
19 The reasons for the shift from regarding sign language as one universal form of communication to seeing sign languages as highly different from each other are easy to understand , but the result has been confusion over what questions remain to be asked about the differences between sign languages .
20 Mr Devaux has been head of chambers at the firm which is soon to drop its name based on the names of partners in favour of the title East Anglian Chambers .
21 Since 1986 all blood has been heat treated and there have been no cases since then .
22 Since its inception a major programme has been teacher placements with the partnership becoming host to the teacher placement organiser for Mid Glamorgan .
23 As with numerous other mill sites , it has waxed and waned in importance , and over the centuries has been home to many individuals and industries .
24 For more than forty years American football has been symbol of patriotism at the Upper Heyford airbase .
25 The traditional external source of funds has been bank loans , and despite some recent reduction in bank dependence as internal reserves or retained profits have increased in importance , higher levels of bank debt is still a characteristic of Japanese company finance .
26 Mr Scott has been chairman of Stockton Council 's planning committee almost constantly since 1974 , says a dire slump in the local economy is enough in itself to sound a death knell for the Tories .
27 The major area of academic industry has been analysis of central mental concepts such as intention or recklessness .
28 The review has been treasury driven rather than defence driven .
29 Glenrothes College has been part of the general SVQ programme from the start , and , like many piloting centres , we are learning as we go .
30 Sweeping into the market with some force has been Abbey National , the building society that turned itself into a bank in 1989 .
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