Example sentences of "[noun] have been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Motability has been one of the few established successes of a mixed economy . |
| 2 | Decin has been lucky in its democratically elected mayor , Zdenek Kropacek , chosen after the the triumph of the autumn 1989 Velvet Revolution . |
| 3 | Rubella ( German measles ) can cause devastating damage to the fetus in early pregnancy and girls who have not had an attack of this disease by the age of puberty are offered immunisation against this virus so that any baby conceived would be protected , although this should soon be rare in the UK because from 1988 , MMR ( measles , mumps , rubella ) protection has been available to all infants . |
| 4 | For many , the whole idea of using Marxist concepts of analysis is out of the question for a Christian and the spectre of communism has been one of the most divisive aspects . |
| 5 | The traditional public finance approach to intergovernmental grants ( or grants-in-aid ) which flow from central ( or federal ) government to local ( or state ) authorities has been concerned with the question of what form the grant should take . |
| 6 | So our support has been subject to redefined guidelines , as you 'd expect from any efficient organisation . |
| 7 | McLaren boss Teddy Mayer as much as admitted at the end of 1975 that he thought Emerson wanted to move — or that he was in personal trouble of one kind and another — but the official news reached Hunt before it got to the team , and got to Hunt through Domingos Piedade , an eccentric figure close to the cheerful groupie Googie Zanon , a wealthy ( textiles ) Italian aristocrat whose support has been crucial to many drivers at critical points in their career , then ‘ manager ’ to Emerson and now to Ayrton Senna — a fringe career from which Domingos , hugely personable , but also often more a talker than a doer , has made a more than reasonable living . |
| 8 | Muller , in fact , played off-season for the Greystones club in Ireland and by all accounts has been one of the most successful migratory players to visit the island . |
| 9 | Well presumably with , what we 're trying to do is create some sort of alternative family units , we do n't want , although , er , laudable what the youth service does , is , we would n't want , if they do n't want to plugged , clubbable together , if , if , if , if the , the unit could provide that , or provide alternatives to pick up the , the correlation between that and , and ordinary normal family unit , I would hope that that would have been the best way forward , erm , er , because often some youngsters are in this situation because they , they have n't found the , that sort of provision has been helpful for them . |
| 10 | Their decision has been crucial to the subsequent direction of the drama . |
| 11 | In reply , Sir Derek said that though he could not speak for other directors , ‘ my resignation has been available to the board from the day all this started . |
| 12 | Cotswold Wildlife Park has been successful in rearing Black Swans from Australia and , of particular note , the unusual Coscoroba Swans from South America , which have piebald cygnets . |
| 13 | The national park has been concerned for some time about the volume of heavy lorries using roads through the park . |
| 14 | His Excellency has been one of the best Ambassadors Spain has ever sent us , and his very dear wife has given him so much support . |
| 15 | And in looking at the experience not merely of Asia , but also of Africa , what becomes increasingly apparent is that most development strategies have tended _ particularly when we look at technical change — erm have tended to bypass women , or in many cases one also notes that the impact of technical change has been detrimental to poor women , and examples of this can be found , for instance , in terms of adoption of certain kinds of technique , like mechanisation of rice processing in parts of Asia , where one finds that there has been a large scale displacement of landless women . |
| 16 | The general pattern of change has been one of upward mobility . |
| 17 | Implementing change has been easier for parish church cathedrals , for obvious reasons . |
| 18 | The pace of educational change has been swift in recent years . |
| 19 | UNTIL now actress Tara Fitzgerald has been famous for what she does n't wear . |
| 20 | The company 's Special Catering Division has been busy of late , arranging catering at a wide variety of functions including dinner for 400 in the magnificent setting of the Old Library at the Guildhall and two days celebrations abroad a new Geest Line Ship , moored on the Thames , off Greenwich . |
| 21 | The idea that dreaming is essential for sanity has been prevalent in popular science since the eighteenth century . |
| 22 | Next in schedule three there is provision to compensate Mr and Mrs for the extra work involved in caring for Paul , it is agreed that er since they are in the special position of course of being Paul 's carers they are , not er , I mean no disrespect to nursing but they 're not erm it is agreed that there should a deduction of twenty five percent , that would give an annual figure of two thousand , six hundred and thirty one times four will amount to ten thousand five hundred and twenty four pounds , adding these figures together , future care during schooling comes if my addition has been accurate to ninety three thousand , six hundred and fifty pounds in total . |
| 23 | For many years Serge Moscovici has been one of the leading critics of orthodoxies in social psychological thinking . |
| 24 | The approach of the police to the investigation of rape cases has been subject to much criticism — and then to considerable improvement — and it seems quite possible that these improvements , together with the advent of rape-crisis centres and victim-support facilities , have led more women to report rapes than did so formerly . |
| 25 | Payment has been satisfied by the issue of 274,914 Savoy ‘ A ’ shares . |
| 26 | Defence has been one of the big strong points of Widnes performances this season . |
| 27 | It achieved funding for a full-time advice worker in 1983 , although funding has been precarious since the abolition of the GLC . |
| 28 | In fact , Mr Shiratori has been one of Japan 's representative 's on the IASC since 1984 and is well versed in all the issues ; he is also well aware that he has taken up the reins of office at a critical time for the IASC . |
| 29 | Mr Haskins has been one of the most outspoken critics of the MMB plan to turn its other functions over to the new Milk Marque co-op . |
| 30 | No response has been forthcoming over the N.A.F.D. comments relating to the Intra Community Transfer of Human Remains . |