Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE pace of political change has been rapid here , but for no one has it been faster than for Mr Jan Carnogursky , who will be a deputy prime minister . |
| 2 | That look had been far from cold , and her insides had melted . |
| 3 | ‘ Little Arsehole 's been clever , the sod . |
| 4 | If that opportunity had been available to him , who knows what difference it might have made ? |
| 5 | ‘ So the retired baker had been right . |
| 6 | And in looking at the experience not merely of Asia , but also of Africa , what becomes increasingly apparent is that most development strategies have tended _ particularly when we look at technical change — erm have tended to bypass women , or in many cases one also notes that the impact of technical change has been detrimental to poor women , and examples of this can be found , for instance , in terms of adoption of certain kinds of technique , like mechanisation of rice processing in parts of Asia , where one finds that there has been a large scale displacement of landless women . |
| 7 | It is only recently that Champagne has been able to boast as many as seventeen grands crus . |
| 8 | Although he has seen other children with unexplained itching , each case has been different . |
| 9 | There is no doubt tremendous strides have been made in certain sections of the North 's economy but that progress has been partial and there have also been many setbacks . |
| 10 | Taken in conjunction with what follows they show the development of UK practice , although they also illustrate that progress has been slow and uncertain , and that user education is still generally a peripheral service in most libraries . |
| 11 | Over the last five years British agricultural research has been subject to major reorganisation . |
| 12 | Unless the hypothetical killer had been careless enough to leave part of Dora 's golf-club visible , her chances of finding it must be virtually nil . |
| 13 | The phenomenon of the hollow frontier has been common where settlers cultivate land , which is virtually free to anyone with the capital and/or labour to exploit it , and move on when serious erosion sets in , leaving behind eroded soils . |
| 14 | The Technical College had been disappointed in not being nominated a college of advanced technology , and the Principal wrote in 1965 that ‘ prior to the publication of the Robbins Report we confidently expected to be designated as one of the colleges of advanced technology … |
| 15 | What strategies for reducing expressed emotion have been effective ? |
| 16 | The effect on mainstream education and ordinary professional practice has been minimal ( Troyna and Ball , 1985 ) . |
| 17 | Each entry has been hand-crafted by a skilled specialist in lexical analysis . |
| 18 | In the end the fourteen-stone collier had been glad to see the back of her . |
| 19 | If the quality of the counselling relationship is good it should prove more than enough to handle the outcome , and if it then assists the individual towards a resolution of emotional troubles , the short-term distress has been worthwhile . |
| 20 | Tension along the 38th parallel had been serious for some months : General Hodge informed the joint chiefs of staff in January 1948 that both the south Korean police and north Korean border guards were engaged in sporadic attacks on one another . |
| 21 | Tension along the 38th parallel had been serious since 1948 but was worse on some occasions than on others . |
| 22 | Prior to their preparing a Four Yearly Report , however , for the majority , formal review of this kind has been unusual : more than half claim that little or very little formal review activity took place in their school before the LEA scheme was introduced . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Later research shows this story to have been unlikely : the Court was not at Wilton at the time and the Earl of Pembroke was not on speaking terms with Laud . |
| 25 | I have accepted part of it , and I 've amended it to ensure that we can overcome the criticisms er that would have been involved if we 'd left it er as it was , er and above all , and I think this is the most important thing , we 've made sure that it will work , er and that it will meet our objectives of getting competition into the franchises , if we 'd just ended up with one great monolithic British Rail , after all each franchise remember will be coming gradually , they wo n't be doing them all at once , there will be one next year , several the year after , and so on , if British Rail had been able to go around and pick them off , and say , Well we can run this now in the future much better than we 've done it in the past , so we 'll bid , and we 'll bid a low bid , that really would n't have been getting fair and proper competition into the system , so what i what I 've done is ensured , as I 've done all the way through in this bill in accepting amendments , that we make sure we achieve our objectives , and that above all it 's workable , the , as it was it would n't as it was the Paignton amendment would n't have been workable , because there would have been total chaos and confusion |
| 26 | One focus to this resistance has been realistic plot-paradigms which Sukenick constantly subverts in the interest of getting nearer to the real . |
| 27 | Another change has been extensive draining of moorland ( Stewart and Lance , 1983 ) and this allied to increased sheep numbers and other factors ( Anderson and Yalden , 1981 ) has led not only to a decrease in moorland vegetation but to a reduction in wildlife , notably grouse . |
| 28 | That is to say that their premium income has been insufficient to meet claims and the difference has therefore had to be met from investment income . |
| 29 | The Court was entitled to see whether all the conditions necessary to the formation of a proper contract had been satisfied . |
| 30 | Taking the wrong course has been expensive for us all . |