Example sentences of "that [noun] has be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Summing up , Nick Carey believes that ICI has been innovative in its approach towards the rationalization of its petrochemicals business — necessary because production capacity in europe was far too high . |
| 2 | In a letter to Environment Minister Lord Strathclyde , Shadow Environment Secretary Chris Smith accepted that sulphur dioxide emissions have been reduced by 45 per cent since 1970 , but pointed out that progress has been haphazard , with reductions in emissions coinciding with economic recession . |
| 3 | The reaction from Ulster Unionists has been an almost automatic rejection , but Downing Street has been keen to point out that Foley has been vocal in his criticism of the IRA and his appointment might not be such a bad move . |
| 4 | It is already widely acknowledged that Germany has been able to augment her political weight , especially in European affairs , by pursuing her interests under the European banner . |
| 5 | I have argued that antiracism has been unable to deal with the new forms in which racism has developed . |
| 6 | ‘ Although the sales force is relatively small ’ , Harris said , ‘ one of the things that Adams has been careful to do is to focus the activity so that it would actually compete with the majors in its field of respiratory medicine ’ . |
| 7 | The despised belletrist criticism of an earlier day could make radical judgements in an off-hand manner ; those articles , for instance , with titles like ‘ On Rereading Stendhal ’ , which come to the conclusion that Stendhal has been much overrated . |
| 8 | Although a number of surveys have shown that practice has been slow to change , the ground has at least been prepared for change . |
| 9 | It appears from Jean Piaget 's child psychology that perception has been inseparable from simulation right from the start , and that instead of learning to project my inwardness on to other persons I had to unlearn the habit of projecting it on to the rising sun or a bouncing ball . |
| 10 | It is another sign of the long-term influence wielded by English scholar-reviewers that England has been swifter than some European countries to evolve away from the multiculturalism of the 1960s . |
| 11 | No doubt it is because of the vision to train in this way that Ichthus has been able to grow in the way that it has done . |
| 12 | History shows that sport has been one of the two major areas in which blacks have been allowed or even encouraged to do well . |
| 13 | The group acknowledge that Scotland has been slower than the rest of the country to produce credible dance music . |
| 14 | What he did not mention was the fact that Scotland has been involved in the processing of vegetable raw materials of medicinal use for some 200 years . |
| 15 | So we 're very lucky indeed , I say without any hesitation whatever , that Jeffrey has been willing to take on this |
| 16 | ‘ I am delighted that HCIMA has been instrumental in its formation and look forward to a closer working relationship with our partners . ’ |
| 17 | Pop fans will note that Albini has been fulsome in his praise for his next project , Polly Harvey . |
| 18 | The walk may be continued beyond the ruins to Swinner Gill where a track leads upstream to the site of the Swinnergill Lead Mine , a scene of industrial devastation , a scarred landscape that nature has been unable to heal . |
| 19 | 1001 Ways to Save the Planet deserves to experience the irony of being consumed in vast quantities — and it 's interesting that Penguin has been willing to launch it towards a mass readership sheathed in a determinedly dowdy recycled cover . |
| 20 | Not that Ulster has been alone in being so treated . |
| 21 | This must mean that subsidence has been steady , for any halts in subsidence should have resulted in the formation of fringing reefs which would later have been converted to barrier reefs by renewed subsidence . |
| 22 | It is possible to run all lifts on machine-made snow and this means that Killington has been able to open for skiing from October to June every season since 1982 . |
| 23 | It is not surprising , therefore , to find that learning has been one of the most extensively studied of human abilities , yet we do not have one complete explanatory theory that can guide teachers . |
| 24 | It is suggested also in Selby 's submissions that demand has been frustrated in their paragraphs three point two one to three point two five , but again no evidence has been submitted of that , that I have seen . |
| 25 | A positive test result means that antibodies have been found and means that HIV has been present in the body . |
| 26 | I suspect that Microsoft has been reluctant to grasp the virus nettle and it will be interesting to see how it copes with the continuous upgrading that such a product requires . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , the fact that Saatchi has been prepared to offend so many dealers and artists does seem to have seriously damaged his credibility in the art world . |
| 28 | It is possible that LIFESPAN has been unable to create the output file for the mail in your current directory as the VMS account has insufficient disk quota available ( or the device is full ) . |