Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contribution of each has been influential in the development of such areas a robotics , natural language understanding , speech recognition and expert systems . |
| 2 | That has been one of the problems of local government , not what the hon. Gentleman has referred to . |
| 3 | This is the first issue for a decade or so that has been typeset with the aid of a computer and phototypesetting . |
| 4 | ‘ That has been possible for some time . |
| 5 | That has been successful in reviving the national economy as a whole . |
| 6 | Critics of a more open approach to young children 's learning often cite the Plowden Report ( 1966 ) as the source and inspiration of all that has been wrong with our primary schools . |
| 7 | The impact of that has been different for older and younger generations and has affected the position of each generation in relation to financial support from relatives , and also assistance with accommodation . |
| 8 | In reality , it is this power , rather than any other provision , that has been vital to the police in their control over the years of pickets , protesters , and political demonstrators . |
| 9 | This has been central to the Catholic tradition as we well know . |
| 10 | I would be interested to know whether this has been successful in reducing speed and accidents , but my impression is that it has worked very well . |
| 11 | The EURODASS consortium led by Marconi Defence Systems Limited offered a solution , and this has been subject to rigorous scrutiny to confirm that it meets the necessary technical criteria . |
| 12 | This has been invaluable in challenging simplicities about , say , the ‘ repression ’ of sexuality in nineteenth-century Europe , and in questioning the teleological view which sees a gradual climb towards permissiveness from Victorian darkness . |
| 13 | So the psychology of the course was created and this has been integral to the development of the tournament . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | The problem of deliberate self-poisoning and self-injury has placed enormous pressure on the stiff ( physicians , nurses , psychiatrists ) and services ( casualty and emergency departments , medical admission units , psychiatric and social work departments ) involved in the care of patients who take overdoses or injure themselves , and this has been one of the factors that has promoted a re-examination of previously accepted policies for the management of attempted suicide patients . |
| 16 | This has been one of my great disappointments , ’ he says . |
| 17 | This has been one of the most controversial clauses in the Act and was deleted in the House of Lords but reinstated by the government . |
| 18 | Women as authors are n't unveiled any longer ; this has been one of the marked developments of the last decade . |
| 19 | Key to all this has been one of Davidson 's major responsibilities , the development of a highly sophisticated system of strategic , operational and individual business plans and performance monitoring and review . |
| 20 | This has been one of the best Friday debates that I have attended for a long time . |
| 21 | This has been one of the happiest days of my life , ’ Margrida declared , her voice becoming choky , ‘ and when you and Vitor get married that will be — ’ |
| 22 | Consistently over the last number of years this has been one of the events to sell out most quickly in the entire Festival programme . |
| 23 | Erm and if it 's not it 's er I 'm not going to deny the fact that some people say you know this has been good for me for the last eighteen months erm I 'm er I 'm used to being self employed I 'm going to stay that way but I 'm looking at other avenues . |
| 24 | In part this has been due to a failure to look at the right parts of the higher order visual cortex , using the right stimuli . |
| 25 | This has been due to the lack of understanding of the origins of this pottery . |
| 26 | " If we have been unable to give Spain greater well-being " , he said , " let it be very clear that this has been due to foreign incomprehension . " |
| 27 | This has been due to agriculture and forestry activities , which must now be considered . |
| 28 | These data are insufficient to establish the variation of seismic wave speeds with depth in the Moon to anything like the same extent with which this has been possible in the Earth . |
| 29 | This has been open to doubt since June 8 , 1989 when an extreme left-wing group pumped 20 bullets into Valenzuela 's former chief , ‘ Wally ’ Fuentes Morrison . |
| 30 | This has been obvious since the seventeenth century . |