Example sentences of "to [noun sg] have [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one could doubt that the application of the academic mind to literature has been salutary in bringing rigour and discipline into criticism : cleaner texts , scholarly annotations , precise analysis , intelligent — even transforming — interpretations and readings ; and an intolerance for woolly emotional responses , vague inflated recommendations , and subjective wallowings of all kinds . |
| 2 | The new approach to assessment has been one of the most important changes in vocational education and training over the last ten years . |
| 3 | Direct participation by the state in the allocation of savings to industry has been important in both qualitative and quantitative senses . |
| 4 | The Councillor contended that the Committee had been overinfluenced by the need to make economies and had not given enough consideration to the local view , shown in letters and at a local meeting at which opposition to closure had been unanimous . |
| 5 | Over the past two years , she pointed out , Saatchi had purchased major works by many of those British painters whose rise to prominence has been such a striking feature of recent years : Saatchi has bought work by , among others , Frank Auerbach , Lucian Freud , Leon Kossoff and Howard Hodgkin . |
| 6 | Dempsey with his image of the ex-hobo riding the roads to fame had been big enough and glamorous enough to blur the controversy from the minds of the crowd . |
| 7 | From DOS 2.0 onwards , the number of buffers available to DOS has been user-configurable , and fiddling with the value can make a speed difference . |
| 8 | This question in relation to pornography has been central to government commissions on the availability of pornography in Britain , the USA and elsewhere . |
| 9 | The company 's commitment to quality has been vital to its success , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Christie 's attitude to training had been casual , to say the least . |
| 11 | Since the general election the move to fundholding has been dramatic and the suggestion that cash limiting will apply to all practitioners will fuel this trend . |
| 12 | The chief headache for publishers to date has been perpetual change in syllabuses , which can seriously affect or disrupt the publishing process . |
| 13 | Research is currently being carried out to manipulate haemoglobin F levels by the use of drugs , although progress to date has been disappointing . |
| 14 | And certainly they 're record to date has been better than ours so erm maybe we should |
| 15 | Their record on ecological concern to date has been appalling . |
| 16 | Feedback on these seminars to date has been encouraging . |
| 17 | An emerging contemporary example of radical change is in the business which to date has been concerned with the defence industries . |
| 18 | The highest level of information used in processing to date has been some form of lexical look-up . |
| 19 | The sale of David Batty has at least made room for the introduction of Rocky ( something which I would like to have seen earlier given the injury problems of Strach ) and his performances to date have been good although showing signs of the years lay off . |
| 20 | The route from Bordeaux to Bergerac had been straight and fast , and presented her with few problems . |
| 21 | But identification of cytotoxic T cells in humans naturally exposed to malaria has been problematic , partly because of the lack of a suitable in vitro restimulation system to generate CTL . |
| 22 | The evening he had taken her and Ingrid to dinner had been wonderful . |