Example sentences of "[adj] progress have been make [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the conclusion of the meeting , little progress had been made beyond agreeing procedural rules and setting up two working parties . |
| 2 | Tax reform had been a major campaign commitment in 1976 , but four years later very little progress had been made on this matter . |
| 3 | Apart from perhaps the use of story grammars [ Mandler & johnson , 1977 ] and the concept of macrostructure formation [ Kintsch & van Dijk , 1983 ] , very little progress has been made towards the implementation of discourse rules in NLP systems . |
| 4 | Of the present pilot sites , relatively little progress has been made in terms of collecting outcome information . |
| 5 | Relatively little progress has been made in answering these questions . |
| 6 | However , very little progress has been made in leading children towards conventionally accepted explanations . |
| 7 | Little progress has been made in terms of developing a theory of the disorder which would provide greater understanding of how and why these factors relate to each other . |
| 8 | Such a way of proceeding has much to recommend it , but scant progress has been made in that direction . |
| 9 | In its report , Control of Nursing Manpower , published in February 1986 , the Committee of Public Accounts acknowledged that progress had been made by nurse managers but went on to recommend that the " DHSS should ensure that all general managers are made aware of all the possibilities for economies identified in the C & AG 's report " ( 2 ) . |
| 10 | The IMF commented that progress had been made by the CAR in the implementation of structural reforms . |
| 11 | The UK Northern Ireland Secretary Sir Patrick Mayhew and the Irish Foreign Minister David Andrews agreed on Nov. 16 that progress had been made in the talks when round-table and committee stages gave way to bilateral contacts during the past four weeks , although there had been no bilateral meeting between the Irish government and the Democratic Unionist Party . |
| 12 | By the time the Swann Report came to be written , some progress had been made in the debate about ‘ underachievement ’ . |
| 13 | Although some progress had been made by January 1990 in dissolving the Ministry for State Security ( the " Stasi " ) [ see pp. 37107-08 ; 37170 ] , the extent to which prominent people had been involved with the Stasi remained a contentious issue [ ibid . ] . |
| 14 | Though some progress has been made towards common accounts , differences are unlikely to be ironed out worldwide for decades . |
| 15 | However , some progress has been made concerning the knowledge acquisition problem : Amsler [ 1982 ] , Calzolari [ 1984 ] , Chodorow [ 1985 ] and Alshawi [ 1988 ] have all demonstrated the use of a machine-readable dictionary in the automatic construction of semantic relations and networks . |
| 16 | Some progress has been made in reducing negative stereotyping . |
| 17 | ‘ I trust some progress has been made in my absence . ’ |
| 18 | Some progress has been made in this area , since the input to such systems is typically simpler than the text to be processed in MT or IR systems , and the interactive nature of the application allows the system to resolve certain ambiguities by asking the user to rephrase the question . |
| 19 | Some progress has been made in recording data on the Polytechnic 's rooms and buildings , and on the teaching space requirements of individual courses . |
| 20 | Much progress has been made since the days of the Chicago School in terms of understanding the biological and instinctive bases of individual and social behaviour . |
| 21 | However there is still no sure preventive treatment , although much progress has been made in acne therapy . |
| 22 | In the past 10 years , LTP in the hippocampus has become the dominant model of activity-dependent synaptic plasticity in the mammalian brain , and much progress has been made in elucidating the mechanisms underlying its induction and expression . |
| 23 | Early television cameras were large and the image of poor quality , but much progress has been made in recent years . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , much progress has been made in recent years . |
| 25 | Lindsell feels that much progress has been made in less than two years — more , he admits , than he would have dreamt possible at the outset . |
| 26 | In the thirty years between the publication of Mendel 's results and their rediscovery , great progress had been made in describing the structure and behaviour of cells . |
| 27 | Instead , great progress has been made with the pair of Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah X 375hp seven cylinder radials . |
| 28 | Yet by 1988 substantial progress had been made on all but items ( 2 ) and ( 4 ) of the agenda . |
| 29 | The main stumbling block continued to be the Irish government 's insistence on involvement in talks from the start , whereas Ulster Unionists were reluctant to allow Ireland to take part until substantial progress had been made on negotiating a new form of devolved government for Northern Ireland . |
| 30 | At their joint press conference on July 31 the two leaders agreed that substantial progress had been made in developing closer US-Soviet relations . |