Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] has [be] " in BNC.

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1 Parents and residents were given the impression that something was going to be done and were very dismayed to find that nothing has been done yet , hence this petition .
2 ‘ I 'm sorry yours has been wasted . ’
3 Understanding the process is of considerable importance however , and it is this which has been focused on here .
4 Now the District Council have taken a lot of money off this town , over the market stalls now , for a number of years , and I believe if they 're going to do a scheme like this which has been going on now for over eight years , it should be done all in one go .
5 Since then a program 's been written called Database One which means something completely different which has been updated to Database Two and Three and may be Four , which mean different things , that 's why they 've got different numbers , they do more clever things and nowadays you talk , you hear people talking about databases and they all mean different things .
6 A significant stratigraphic break is identified near the base of the Barren Measures in the late Carboniferous which has been designated the ‘ Symon Unconformity ’ .
7 BEEF up to six years old which has been sold to British shoppers is ‘ 100pc okay ’ , Food Minister Nicholas Soames has insisted .
8 We have , then , two different kinds of language as potential objects for study : one abstracted in order to teach a language or literacy , or to study how the rules of language work , and another which has been used to communicate something and is felt to be coherent ( and may , or may not , happen to correspond to a correct sentence or a series of correct sentences ) .
9 The Whitby line , another which has been the subject of closure worries , will serve shoppers better and has new connections at Grosmont for the North York Moors Railway .
10 But in all of this she has been the least public : less frequently on conference platforms , much less in print .
11 Jenny Pitman is another who has been waiting for the rain before releasing a very strong team .
12 The clearest example of this is patient 203 from family 2 who has been shown by molecular studies to possess the faulty APC gene .
13 Charlton confessed : ‘ This one has been troubling me for some time .
14 This one has been produced on the basis of wide consultation , with the views of those who actually play professional cricket rightly given the strongest consideration .
15 Now they may all look dirty to you but this one has been used less and it therefore has less .
16 This one has been sounded to a depth of a mere 1,000 feet , but peer into it is as far as I would ever want to go ; such crevices are no doubt thrilling to explore when they widen out into great chambers , but the thought of the narrow places I for one find exceedingly off-putting .
17 : , who on seeing Canova 's ‘ Paris ’ in Florence in 1813 , exaggerated the idea of the ‘ creative ’ and sexual role of the sculptor 's touch : ‘ The chisel is the last tool that comes to mind , for if statues could be made by caressing marble rather than by roughly cutting and chipping I would say that this one has been formed by wearing down the surrounding marble by dint of kisses and caresses ’ .
18 I usually am at the end of the week , and this one has been particularly tough .
19 In truth , this one has been something more akin to a slow train coming .
20 This one has been unfair to the players because there has not been enough cricket in between the Tests .
21 The original school has been replaced by a modern one with spacious play areas , and the old one has been converted into a home for the elderly .
22 Alongside this there has been a move towards non-elected and usually specialist forms of local government .
23 The so-called functional areas , such as marketing , production and personnel have given way to a more problem-centred approach , but within this there has been a notable decline in the significance accorded to industrial relations , and still more , to the field of personnel management .
24 Concerning this there has been much speculation .
25 Because of this there has been scientific and practical interest in the facks that amonoantibiotic regimen comprising omeprazole and amoxicillin has been highly successful in eradicating H pylori in some pilot studies and has shown good results with regard to H pylori reinfection and the clinical course of peptic ulcer disease in the first year after treatment .
26 One of the main theses of the regulationist school is that in the 1970s/1980s there has been a decisive shift from Fordism ( named after the company in which its introduction is most famed ) to neo-Fordism .
27 Since 1985 there has been only a marginal reduction in mental hospital beds : ‘ I think we lost some somewhere ’ , as Dr Peter Verbraak , Director of de Grote Bek Hospital in Groningen , recently commented .
28 Is the Minister aware that since he was first appointed to the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food in 1985 there has been a £28 billion food deficit , which amounts to £15 million per year or £1,200 per household ?
29 Since the 1980's there has been a renaissance of interest in ethnography .
30 Because of this it has been popular at cat shows in the United States for several decades .
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