Example sentences of "[verb] been [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would 've been best with a bigger piece , bigger programme because then we could 've it was easy to see where we were slipping |
| 2 | Not for the first time , therefore , a government keen on deregulation has been upset by the results . |
| 3 | The report proposes a new structure for the centre , which it says has been underused as a TNO institute . |
| 4 | The growth and international expansion of the hotel and catering industry has been phenomenal during the past decade , ensuring a constant demand for trained and skilled staff and providing ample opportunity for those who are temperamentally suited to the industry . |
| 5 | For 15 years it has been illegal in the U8A to produce a new car without a three-way catalytic converter . |
| 6 | It is in the field of its own procedures that the Court of Appeal , in the past , has been receptive to the claim of substantive justice . |
| 7 | Lastly , Mr Gandhi has been critical of the decision to let American aircraft refuel in India on their way to the Gulf . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Thatcher Government has been critical of the growth of quangos . |
| 10 | Since the late nineteenth century , the problem has been one of a surplus of labour . |
| 11 | While Senna 's steady but swift progress made his 20th Grand Prix victory look easy , the reigning world champion says this race has been one of the toughest . |
| 12 | He has been one of the Legislative Council 's most diligent members , a demanding enough job ; he accepted China 's offer of a seat on the Basic Law Drafting Committee , helping to write Hong Kong 's post-1997 mini-constitution , and was embroiled in more unsuccessful arguments for direct elections , opposed by mainland communists and Hong Kong conservatives . |
| 13 | Every one of the scores of abandoned Trabants and Wartburgs which clog the streets around the embassy has been one of the most cherished possessions in its owner 's life . |
| 14 | Terry Hands , retiring director of the RSC , will be facing up to Douglas Mason of the Adam Smith Institute , whose Expounding The Arts has been one of the most interesting discussion documents of recent years . |
| 15 | This has been one of the central preoccupations of ethnographic police research , especially that inspired by phenomenology and ethnomethodology , and so apposite is policing to this focus that many theoreticians from within phenomenology and ethnomethodology have used it for the application of their ideas ( Cicourel 1968 ; Pollner 1987 ; Sacks 1972 ; Sudnow 1965 ) . |
| 16 | There is truth in that , also in the proposition that in Western culture the ‘ tragic vision ’ has been one of the most powerful means of containing and sublimating desire . |
| 17 | Moreover , because of the first-past-the-post electoral system and the predominantly two-party system , it has been one of the few parties of the left able to form a government on its own . |
| 18 | Stone is not alone in noting the ‘ discrepancy ’ ( p. 420 ) between this and the apparent economic drawbacks of divorce for women ( the increase in divorce has been one of the major factors contributing to the ‘ feminization of poverty ’ ) . |
| 19 | Indeed the conclusion that such diverse aspects of society as religion , kinship , politics , and economics form a linked whole has been one of the touchstones of modern anthropology . |
| 20 | In modern Britain sport has been one of the ways that men have kept themselves apart , defined their own territory , and indulged their enthusiasms . |
| 21 | Dixons has been one of the first retail chains to suffer from the slowing of retail demand . |
| 22 | LIBERALISATION has been one of the key concepts of eighties ' economics , a word which has acquired such power in Anglo-Saxon officialdom that there is virtually no argument about its virtues . |
| 23 | ‘ Bond has been one of the walking wounded for so long that most people have seen this coming and should have provided against it , ’ a banking executive said . |
| 24 | Since its birth in the 1920s , air travel has been one of the world 's most heavily regulated industries . |
| 25 | For more than fifty years , Danny Holland has been one of the premier cuts men in boxing . |
| 26 | He has been one of the inspirations behind the anti-EC Conservative European Reform Group . |
| 27 | The Bodrum peninsular , within sight of the Dodecanese islands of Greece , has been one of the first areas of Turkey to attract British tourists . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The population explosion has been one of the major phenomena in Latin America this century . |
| 30 | This tacit admission that something had gone seriously wrong with the original expectation of atom-fired electricity ‘ too cheap to meter ’ has been one of the best kept secrets in the whole nuclear power debate . |