Example sentences of "[noun] has been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accuracy of this technique has been steadily improving and measurements can now be made over thousands of kilometres to an accuracy of a few millimetres . |
| 2 | It is therefore remarkable that the amount of co-operation and collaborative work between local authorities and higher education institutions has been so limited and only shows recent signs of expansion . |
| 3 | Erm and I have to er pick up the point made opposite that the protection has been pretty good over the last few years without the policy . |
| 4 | Despite the limited size of the Urban Programme , the administration of grant has been consistently problematic ( West Midlands County Council , 1986 ; Stewart , 1987 ) . |
| 5 | In recent years , the growth of National Certificate uptake has been especially strong in secondary schools . |
| 6 | SMALL businesses do not seem to know about the industrial building allowances introduced last November , and the uptake has been very disappointing , David Wilson , chairman of Wilson Bowden , the Midlands house-builder and developer , said yesterday . |
| 7 | You can fiddle with brightness settings , depending on which scanner you use — and WSP supports most — should you need to , but we have found little need to adjust the settings unless a page of text has been particularly light or very dark . |
| 8 | Hair has been vertically spiral wound on large rods by Beverly Kyprianou at Cobella |
| 9 | The shipbuilding story has been more complex . |
| 10 | The story has been further complicated by the observation that under conditions where previous activation of the NMDA receptor system has disabled the induction mechanism , NO synthase inhibitors may promote the induction of LTP . |
| 11 | The increase in the number of single-parent families has been detailed in Part I. The rise has been so significant that , had it not been overshadowed by the advent of mass unemployment , much of today 's public debate about welfare reform would be centred on how best to help this group of claimants . |
| 12 | Consequently , their salaries have risen infrequently , perhaps once in each Parliament , so each rise has been much higher than the typical annual pay increase . |
| 13 | In some areas of Scotland , the rise has been as much as 35 per cent . |
| 14 | Chairman the St Albans traffic issue , the erm bus for quite a long period of time but throughout that period of time Chairman the County Council 's decision has been absolutely clear . |
| 15 | it is in the period since 1979 that the growth in pay inequality has been most dramatic . |
| 16 | We hear that progress has been rather slow of late but feel this has less to do with the quality of Swan Vesta the boys are using and more to do with their strange diets . |
| 17 | It is only our more ambivalent age , engaged in the very last mopping-up of the great wet waste which challenged our ancestors , which has begun to question whether the price of progress has been too high . |
| 18 | The progress has been as dynamic , and certainly more precise , than anything produced by those great painters . |
| 19 | Progress has been so good , they tell me , that there is now every chance the gasworks can be opened to the public on Sundays during June , July and August . |
| 20 | That is an as yet unfulfilled hope , but the recent pace of experimental progress has been so great that there is every reason for optimism . |
| 21 | He concludes that although developed during 25 years , progress has been very rapid , but in many fields there is still considerable scope for further empirical work . |
| 22 | In recent years , that pace of change has been particularly rapid . |
| 23 | We may have no choice but to do so , though I believe that the change has been more damaging than beneficial . |
| 24 | Outside the top three , change has been more drastic . |
| 25 | In particular I think it should be recognised that the role of the unions , NALGO and G M D in helping that process of change has been quite fundamental and for that reason , because we appreciate and value the essential way in which the unions have contributed to the process of changing the organisation I consider that the they much trailed proposals from the opposition groups to cut , or in the other case , to reduce the NALGO office are quite misguided . |
| 26 | However in practice the change has been less dramatic than it first appears , for two reasons . |
| 27 | He scored 12 goals in eight pre-season games but has not netted in the Premiership so far and his partnership with David Hirst has been deeply disappointing . |
| 28 | But funding has been significantly less than other programmes , dissemination of materials less effective and leadership less dynamic . |
| 29 | I am always in my very best spirits , for my heart has been as light as a feather ever since I got away from all that humbug ; and , what is more , I have become fatter . |
| 30 | Since the 1960s the impact of good management at school level has been increasingly clear . |