Example sentences of "[noun] have [been] critical of " in BNC.
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| 1 | On other occasions committees have been generally in support of government action but have urged that it be undertaken more vigorously : the Defence Committee has been critical of the Ministry of Defence when it has spent less than the sums provided in the annual estimates . |
| 2 | The Guardian of Jan. 9 , for example , reported that Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) documents circulated internally in late December had been critical of Gorbachev and had blamed him for the " subversion " of socialism in Eastern Europe . |
| 3 | Ecologists have been critical of the government 's failure to introduce planned legislation to make farmers seek approval from local authorities before grubbing out a hedge . |
| 4 | Many psychologists have been critical of the discipline 's pathologization of racial ‘ others ’ . |
| 5 | The ETB has been critical of hotel telephone call charges for many years . |
| 6 | The Thatcher Government has been critical of the growth of quangos . |
| 7 | The concept of DRGS was developed in the USA and some British clinicians have been critical of the appropriateness , and at least believing that more work is needed to make them usable in the NHS . |
| 8 | Valuev had been critical of the ecclesiastical hierarchy since at least 1855 , when he asked why the church needed the physical force of the state to prevent schism and re-convert dissenters . |
| 9 | Lastly , Mr Gandhi has been critical of the decision to let American aircraft refuel in India on their way to the Gulf . |
| 10 | Rowlands has been critical of Welsh officials who went to the SA Rugby Board celebrations . |