Example sentences of "[noun] have been [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another difficulty has been that such councils are attuned to providing finance for the creation of specific works , while the need for support in popular music is not at the point of creation , but for help in reaching audiences . |
| 2 | Dutch experience has been that close cooperation is needed between planners and all of these groups as well as others such as the police , mandating a cautious , incremental , flexible and thus costly style of planning . |
| 3 | The result has been that recent chancellors have been able to give free rein to their tax-reforming ambitions . |
| 4 | The result has been that major reforms are completely avoided and every minor reform is weakened or sabotaged . |
| 5 | The result has been that solar panels are now comparable in price to wind generators . |
| 6 | He adds : ‘ It has been a good few years since the snow has been this hard which means a lot of walkers are n't used to it . |
| 7 | The despised belletrist criticism of an earlier day could make radical judgements in an off-hand manner ; those articles , for instance , with titles like ‘ On Rereading Stendhal ’ , which come to the conclusion that Stendhal has been much overrated . |
| 8 | The rule has been that young people intending to study medicine must forsake the humanities and social sciences for physics , chemistry and biology . |
| 9 | — is not it clear that Government policies on manufacturing industry have been little short of disastrous ? |
| 10 | The Battle of Falkirk had been another Jacobite victory , Prince Charles having lost 50 dead and 80 wounded , while Hawley 's casualties , suffered in a mere 20 minutes , amounted to 350 killed and another 300 taken prisoner . |
| 11 | If Whizzo had been any good Jazz could have transferred but Biddy , having given Whizzo the thumbs down , had found him a good home with a nervous lady in the suburbs and he was no longer available . |
| 12 | Before the marriage Maggie had been little more than a drudge round the house . |
| 13 | Amongst the industries most affected by deregulation have been those involved in innovatory technological activity . |
| 14 | Whilst the potential here looks considerable , there is just a slight concern that initial reaction has been that medical audit requires a rather more in-depth review of each case than is provided by routine data collection approach . |
| 15 | Tom had been much more of a snob than she was . |
| 16 | Seasoned media watchers have been much concerned with Richard Ingrams of late . |
| 17 | Neo-classical economists have been much preoccupied with exploring the conditions under which market coordination leads to the ‘ best ’ or ‘ socially optimal ’ allocation of resources . |
| 18 | The 1983 agreement by eighteen countries to set up a regional preferential trading area ( PTA ) in East and Southern Africa has been little more successful in overcoming three familiar problems . |
| 19 | But the only obvious truth of this kind in the UK has been that foreign supply creates domestic demand , the measure of which is import penetration . |
| 20 | The key or ‘ entrée ’ to the new development has been that problematic aspect of school work — projects and assignments . |
| 21 | When Roosevelt had been persuaded by the British , in July 1942 , to postpone a direct invasion of Western Europe and instead to prepare an invasion of North Africa , one of his conditions had been that Free France should be excluded . |
| 22 | All in all , a pitiful collection , but he was n't so self-deceiving as to believe their relationship had been much more than a sum of those parts . |
| 23 | Well all the other things have been more urgent , so therefore , I have n't really pursued it to its limits . |
| 24 | One important consequence of the expansion of the capitalist world economy has been that individual economic actors ( like workers and entrepreneurs ) and collective economic actors ( like trade unions and TNCs ) have become much more conscious of the transnationality of their practices and have striven to extend their global influence . |
| 25 | This theory has been much refined , and has also been empirically tested using computer simulations . |
| 26 | More influential in the realm of literary and cultural theory has been another overt defence of historicism — that of Fredric Jameson . |
| 27 | One of the problems of LEA control has been that local government is a highly politicised domain . |
| 28 | A long-held belief has been that decorated cremation pottery , at least , was a product of specialist workshops which traded their wares ( Myres 1969 ) . |
| 29 | His own feeling had been that Dizzy Liston looked like some amiable , well-heeled scarecrow . |
| 30 | And if Jack had been such another he would have thanked Charlie for his unstinted friendship , his generous loans , his hospitality and for bringing him Marilyn Thompson . |