Example sentences of "have been [adv] [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This seems to be the maxim of those who use the library and information service which has been even busier in the last session . |
| 2 | 11 , everything happening in the present case has been no more than one stage in a continuing contest between the prosecutor and the applicant in a matter which from the outset has been exclusively criminal in nature . |
| 3 | Britain has been notoriously ineffective in dealing with offences like financial fraud , market manipulation and insider dealing . |
| 4 | Open Forum is to be a conference-led event with both technical and business streams , designed to lead up to 1993 and the establishment of the single European market — and the Commission of the European Communities has been closely involved in its organisation , says Borkovsky , promising more details in the future . |
| 5 | In recent years Applied Linguistics at Edinburgh has been closely involved in the organisation of international seminars and conferences . |
| 6 | As manager , Assessment Operations , Mike has been closely involved in establishing the detail of the model and in the methods of scoring and assessing applications . |
| 7 | Other authors have suggested that it has been the process of secularisation which has been most central in giving rise to moral protest groups . |
| 8 | The Commission has been most helpful in authorizing Commissioners — or more usually senior officials — to travel from Brussels to give oral evidence in public . |
| 9 | However , the organization of rural workers has been crucial to the formation of the Salvadorean opposition movement and political repression has been most savage in the countryside . |
| 10 | Campion has been most industrious in routing out items in the archives of radio stations . |
| 11 | But so far , this type of biological control has been most successful in China , where plentiful labour is available for intensive rearing of natural enemies . |
| 12 | This assumption has been most conspicuous in the context of experiments comparing manual response times with vocal reaction time . |
| 13 | The change in the ways of disciplining has been most evident in the gradual erosion of absolutist , authoritarian and punitive methods of discipline . |
| 14 | He has been most generous in giving way . |
| 15 | The arrival and departure of winter visitors appears to overlap a small passage which has been most obvious in spring , when regular sea-watches have recorded small easterly movements , involving up to 25 birds annually , between early March and early May . |
| 16 | This has been most dramatic in the case of ‘ Emperor ’ Bokassa of the Central African Republic , but equally consistent in the cases of Houphouet Boigny , Banda and Mobutu . |
| 17 | In practice , it has been this area which has been most significant in relation to land development and planning policies . |
| 18 | The Tavistock Institute , and in particular the lead researcher in the coal-mining studies , Eric Trist , were also founder-members of the so-called Quality of Working Life movement , the impact of which has been particularly great in North America . |
| 19 | This phenomenon has been particularly acute in the three Anglo-Saxon countries where liberalisation has moved fastest : Britain , Australia and the United States . |
| 20 | This problem , also experienced to some extent in Nicaragua , has been particularly acute in Mozambique because of the high levels of illiteracy and shortages of skilled people at all levels , and the legacy of a highly authoritarian colonial school system . |
| 21 | The problem has been particularly acute in the top echelons where the blue and grey suits are rarely disturbed by a skirt . |
| 22 | The twenty year period has been particularly changeful in Scotland , encompassing the discovery of oil , recession , and the birth of new industries . |
| 23 | The ratio of stable isotopes in marble ( see glossary ) can also be used to determine provenance , and has been particularly useful in checking the integrity of statuary recomposed from fragments ( see p. 109 ) . |
| 24 | This has been particularly useful in the nuclear industry where highly corrosive toxic and radioactive substances cause severe maintenance problems . |
| 25 | In those in whom this failed to identify flow within the stent , transoesophageal duplex ultrasound was performed and has been particularly useful in obese patients . |
| 26 | Petrology has been particularly helpful in identifying Neolithic stone axes made from the hard rocks which predominate in western Britain from Cornwall to Scotland . |
| 27 | Britain has been particularly fortunate in acquiring the sorts of institutions which she did acquire . |
| 28 | The realist view of power has been particularly influential in the United States among theorists and foreign-policy practitioners alike . |
| 29 | The Scotch Whisky Association ( SWA ) has been particularly vociferous in its campaign to protect the industry from further rises in duty and to have all alcoholic drinks taxed on an equal basis . |
| 30 | Since graduating from Lincoln College with a degree in Agricultural Science , he has held several positions within the meat industry , in New Zealand and London , and has been particularly involved in export marketing . |