Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] have been very " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ … the environmental traffic management schemes have been very successful . |
| 2 | They know their families ' business or farming interests have been very hard hit by the political and economic disruptions . |
| 3 | Whatever momentous steps they took in the Devonian , the lungfish and lobe fins have been very conservative since , for the living lungfish are clearly similar to their Palaeozoic relatives and coelacanth lobe fins like the living genus ( Latimeria ) are known from Cretaceous rocks . |
| 4 | Both the design and location of public authority houses have been very considerably affected , while the private sector has been responsive to market demands . |
| 5 | Rates of movement between tenure types have been very low ( Murphy and Sullivan , 1983 , Table 3.9 ) . |
| 6 | Even when a set of stunt lines have been very carefully matched to each , it is inevitable that line tension will stretch one more than the other . |
| 7 | In many dioceses there are comparable structures and some of the diocesan music commissions have been very active . |
| 8 | The number of males surviving to old age in these birth cohorts has been very significantly deleted by the huge mortality associated with the 1914 — 18 world war . |
| 9 | The building societies have been very successful in attracting savings from the personal sector . |
| 10 | It 's not as if the contribution of Labour Councillors to th to the management of Health Authorities has been very er productive . |
| 11 | As a result , said Dowdeswell , they had realised how lucky they were with their hospital social workers : ‘ The hospital teams have been very well protected within social services . ’ |
| 12 | Science teachers had been very responsive to these library-based developments , despite the fact that industrial action had prevented their proper introduction , discussion and evaluation . |
| 13 | Traditionally these are places where county record offices and the work of county archivists have been very important as a base from which to promote records management in local authorities . |
| 14 | If the conflicts have been most evident in direct cultural production , they have been most complex and most general in the crucial formative area of education , where the direct controls of established institutions of reproduction have been easier to maintain , largely because the influence of market forces has been very much less relevant , and the only major factor of asymmetry has been the ( always practically weaker ) claim of professional and cultural independence . |
| 15 | As might be expected in a close election , the personal impact of the party leaders has been very important . |