Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] has been [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This is certainly the case in many inner city areas , where there has been philosophical and political opposition to the scheme and where the organisational barriers to becoming a fundholding practice have been considerable .
2 Where there has been new investment it has been financed largely from income generated in Africa and re-invested locally .
3 The most relevant comparison is probably with southern Italy , where there has been substantial depopulation and many individual agricultural holdings are of economically unviable size and highly fragmented .
4 I stress again that where there has been unlawful subletting which has determined ( and which has not been waived ) there has been a breach which at common law entitles the lessor to re-enter : nothing can be done to remedy that breach : the expiry of the subterm has not been annulled or remedied the breach : in such a case the lessor plainly need not , in his section 146 notice , call upon the lessee to remedy the breach which is not capable of remedy , and is free to issue his writ for possession , the possibility of relief remaining .
5 Where there has been serious political conflict , schoolgirls have often been involved in protests and boycotts .
6 Where there has been malicious tampering of a product , if this occurs before the time of supply by , for example , an employee of the manufacturer , the latter will be strictly liable .
7 It is clear from the right hon. Gentleman 's first attempt to amend regulation 72 that the Government 's motive is to save money and administration — the motive is so absolutely blatant that I am amazed that even the Parliamentary Under-Secretary , whose eccentricities are well known , could not deny the obvious — while , at the same time , blocking or restricting back payments of entitlement , even where there has been official error .
8 where there has been improper admission or exclusion of evidence ;
9 I know that in some parts of the country , notably in the north-east , one or two local authorities have made it rather difficult for protective street furniture to be erected along the sides of roads where there has been ram-raiding .
10 JOHN MCKAY , NDO for Management , has been seconded from Glasgow College where he has been Senior Lecturer in Marketing since 1973 .
11 It is the recognition of this principle and its implications which is particularly characteristic of Labov 's approach to data : ‘ for the section of speech being examined all occurrences of a given variant are noted , and where it has been possible to define the variables as a closed set of variants , all non-occurrences in the relevant environments ’ ( Labov 1982a : 30 ) .
12 Recall the requirements of this principle ( cf. 6.1 ) that ‘ all occurrences of a given variant are noted , and where it has been possible to define the variable as a closed set of variants , all non-occurrences of the variant in the relevant circumstances ’ ( Labov 1982a : 30 ) .
13 The professional role has been minimal , and , where it has been relevant has been facilitative rather than directive or initiating .
14 The Red Poll 's greatest successes overseas are in Jamaica , Brazil and other Latin American countries where it has been instrumental in the creation of types bred for local conditions , such as the Jamaica Red , Pitangueiras ( Brazil ) , La Velasquez ( Colombia ) , Senepol ( US Virgin Islands ) and possibly the Romosinuano ( Colombia ) .
15 Although there has been intermittent interest in this area since that time , it is only more recently that there have been suitable techniques for more effective study .
16 But although there has been detailed research on several rhynchosaurs , there are still important controversies surrounding their diet and their mode of life , their significance in Triassic ecosystems , and their taxonomic position ( that is , their relationship to other kinds of reptiles ) .
17 Although there has been considerable support for a Teachers ' Council , the proposal has made little headway .
18 However , though the only currently practicable approach to identifying rural deprivation was an area based one and although it has been possible to make some sense of census data for rural areas , they still concluded , in line with Knox and Cottam , that it would be far better if the analysis could be performed at the individual level .
19 Although it has been operational for a while , it was only recently that Ski survey visited this slope , to attend a Peter Lightfoot ski course .
20 Although it has been difficult to achieve improved performance , Martin Houldin of KPMG 's environment unit , remains confident that the initiative is progressing well .
21 Although he has been bad-mouthed and rubbished by lots of the women he has slept with , he never says anything about them , which I suppose is quite admirable . ’
22 The views of many Conservative Members of Parliament are much more profound in their objection to certain trends in Europe than it has been possible to encapsulate in any short Motion .
23 The rumblings that Intel Corp has been having more problems successfully fabricating the Pentium chip than it has been prepared to discuss have erupted again , and our sister paper Unigram.X today reports that Pentium has been hit by another round of serious availability problems because of poor yields .
24 In almost every year since 1945 the government has spent more than it has been willing or able to raise via taxation .
25 Vision moves to and fro between the vessels , setting up a visual and , if one has been long at sea , an emotional tension between them .
26 The already mentioned case of Cecil Harvey suggests that active membership of another party is not a problem for Free Presbyterians , provided one has been consistent .
27 Either he can at once accept the anticipatory breach as a repudiation and immediately claim damages or else he can refuse to accept it as a repudiation and wait until there has been actual failure to perform the contract ( as opposed to an anticipatory one ) .
28 The second wave occurs at puberty when the young person looks for a sexual partner , and if there has been minimum conflict during the phallic phase this is of the opposite sex .
29 If there has been tricky manoeuvres I would have ignored the set course and followed my own , turning a circle if necessary : this was a schooling round , not an attempt to win a rosette .
30 One aspect of this discretion relates to the time limit for making an application for judicial review under RSC Order 53 : s. 31(6) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 allows the court to refuse leave or to refuse relief if there has been undue delay in making the application and that the granting of relief would , amongst other things , be ‘ detrimental to good administration ’ .
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