Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb base] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rural groups have been vulnerable for a long time . |
| 2 | In many societies , especially those in which healthy childspacing patterns have been traditional , the will to regulate fertility — at least by spacing — exists , and these patterns may be supported through the provision of modern means of family planning , the spread of relevant information , acceptance of its validity and its correct application . |
| 3 | The LWP has been the most political of the East European Warsaw Pact armies , because it is in Poland that the political authorities have been weakest . |
| 4 | Snowdonia ) the greatest losses have been due to afforestation ; in SW England and southern Wales , agricultural conversion has been the main cause , whereas in intermediate areas such as the Cambrian Mountains of mid Wales , moorland has been lost to both . |
| 5 | What strategies for reducing expressed emotion have been effective ? |
| 6 | There is currently a move towards Community Education in the Urban and Burgh schools ; rural schools have been involved in this , informally for a long time . |
| 7 | Already in the sixth century BC , at the time when Buddha and Mahavira lived , that part of India was ruled by the Achaemenids of Iran , and Iranian influences have been important in India ever since . |
| 8 | It would probably be fair to say that views of this kind have been dominant among British socialists from the Labour-left leftwards , but over recent years they have come under increasing criticism , on both theoretical and political grounds . |
| 9 | Catastrophe is the principal subject of much of the significant art of the present , but few artists have been able to synthesise imagery of this order of resonance . |
| 10 | In both countries these and other social policies have been short-circuited by war and destabilization , and by the slide into a major debt crisis . |
| 11 | The Scottish courts have been stricter than the English judges in this area , and the Americans exclude all evidence obtained in unlawful searches , subject to a ‘ good faith ’ exception developed in recent years . |
| 12 | For example , authors writing in dialect and authors from certain social groups have been under-represented . |
| 13 | As for sentencing , English courts have been unclear about the proper approach . |
| 14 | Around 230 tons of " highly toxic chemicals " have been illegally exported from Germany to Ukraine since the beginning of this year and the German authorities have been aware of the transports , Greenpeace has claimed . |
| 15 | With fewer resources it might in some cases have been necessary , and would certainly have been lawful , to preserve the peace by preventing individual returning miners from attempting to pass through picket lines . |
| 16 | Consequently , a mortgagee would in some cases have been able to realize his security by sale , enter into possession , or appoint a receiver , all without recourse to a court . |
| 17 | There is an enormous variety in the urban experience that this book can not hope to explore to any great extent : different cities have been subject to contrasting pressures and have responded in different ways . |
| 18 | Some researchers have been able to make use of their own skills to gain access to a group . |
| 19 | It is quite clear that in securing contracts with the private sector , and getting a good price , some authorities have been quicker off the mark than others , leaving the remainder at the mercy of spot prices and the sort of fee-hiking that can result . |
| 20 | ( Some schools have been able to co-ordinate work with the National Film School , where a script has been written for the personalities in a group and then filmed on location , and this worked effectively . ) |
| 21 | In general , the results that we have reported in this chapter have been favourable to the rational expectations hypothesis , suggesting at the very least that the usefulness of that hypothesis in one area of macroeconomics can not be dismissed lightly . |
| 22 | The themes of this chapter have been clear enough . |
| 23 | We shall see below how different schools have been involved in one or more of these types of situation , but for the present two illustrations should suffice to demonstrate the potential of this classification . |
| 24 | The last few months have been frustrating , so it was nice to be in action again . |
| 25 | He says the last few months have been some of the driest since records began . |
| 26 | The past few months have been remarkable for that . |
| 27 | Nonetheless , papers such as the Daily Mail have been prominent in publishing articles and letters about mental handicap , and in particular in discussing the right to live issue . |
| 28 | The House will know that 46 British inspectors have been involved in the process of inspection within Iraq . |
| 29 | Some parties have been assiduous in doing so , others have not . |
| 30 | In other cases where British judges have been unable to reconcile Community and national law they have thrown the burden of responsibility back upon the government and suggested that the applicants sue the government for breach of a Community obligation under Case C-6190 and C-9190 Francovich and Bonifaci v Italy [ 1992 ] IRLR 84 . |