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

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1 Mr David Cummings , general manager , said : ‘ We have never done anything on this scale , but everyone has been fantastic and our suppliers have stood by us . ’
2 A problem with diagnosing lipid disorders is that everyone has been obsessed with examining fasting specimens , a requirement which presents two obstacles for diabetics .
3 Everyone has been nice to me . ’
4 Everyone has been superlative .
5 And , with Norway roaring away at the top of England 's World Cup group , everyone has been able to see their quality .
6 I do hope that each and everyone has been hard at work encouraging your class members to renew their membership and getting new class members to join the Society .
7 Ernestine — everyone has been concerned about you . ’
8 Everyone has been excellent during this nightmare . ’
9 And so though we have all sinned and that circle , that perfect purpose of God for you and for me has been warped and distorted out of all recognition , the potential that God had for you and for me , it 's been dis it seems to have been destroyed because of the warping and because of the impact of sin .
10 They were allowed to see it for one hour , before it was taken back , and none of them has been able to get hold of it since .
11 Competition among them has been intense in the past decade as a result of the switch to reimbursement based on diagnostic related groups rather than historic costs , a difficult regulatory environment aimed at reducing short stay hospital capacity and at cost containment , and a much tougher climate for research funding .
12 It will be necessary to confirm that all restrictions have been observed and if they have not been observed , to confirm that consent to vary or discharge them has been forthcoming .
13 Inevitably we have silly problems , but so far nothing has been insurmountable .
14 It is not only the length of time that someone has been unemployed that is important , but also the fact that it affects a person 's lifetime income .
15 Whenever someone has been ill in hospital and has recovered sufficiently to go home , usually the first question asked is ‘ Have you got a family ? ’ .
16 Can you imagine what it feels like when someone has been infertile and you 've helped them to have a baby ?
17 But Mr Yeltsin himself has been unable to give the miners public support because their strike threatens Russia 's stubborn attempts to plough its lonely furrow of economic reform .
18 Nobody has been able to identify the houses , partly because they are of a very common design that appears all over London .
19 Nobody has been able to substantiate that idea and Kitching ( 1977 ) cites instances in Spain and Scotland of enclaves with elongated shells feeding on mussels .
20 Since then nobody has been able to get in touch with her .
21 The success of The Hitman And Her has been extraordinary .
22 There is nobody jumping up and down for joy at the news , and morale , which has been comatose , now has a sense of mortality hanging over it .
23 Ecstasy , which has been illegal since 1977 , is used by many on the rave scene .
24 It must be the influence of Jekyll and Hyde , which has been strong since John Barrymore grew long teeth and took to scuttling about dark expressionist streets , bashing and killing .
25 This unprincipled position was sharply attacked by the Irish News , the nationalist newspaper which has been standard reading for the Catholic community in the North for the best part of a century .
26 As noted , eurobond firms are seeking to reform issuance procedures in a bid to reduce the current pressures on profitability , one underlying cause of which has been excess capacity .
27 The first particular strategy which has been subject to criticism has been the reliance on possible first use of nuclear weapons as a means of countering presumed superior Soviet conventional power — a reliance which McNamara sought for a while to abandon when Secretary of Defense in the early 1960s , and which he openly challenged in a famous recent article ( Bundy et al . ,
28 The second particular strategy which has been subject to criticism has been the targeting of cities and other locations not of a strictly military character .
29 This new exhibition area is the first stage of the Nuovi Uffizi complex , which has been subject to delays even though the funds have long been available .
30 Secondly , many of the ideas presented so far derive from a particular perspective in sociology which has been subject to the criticisms noted above .
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