Example sentences of "has [been] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 There have been important studies of aspects of modern cities , but in my view there has been no recent study of a significant part of a great industrial city considered as a whole .
2 But it can not be accepted that every time there is a tragedy in the Health Service , where there has been no professional neglect , that instantly there should be compensation .
3 However , as there has been no simultaneous monitoring of incidence , it is extremely difficult to determine the effects of these expensive actions to human health and wellbeing .
4 Rosenthal , who is keen to move back to the continent , has also been touted in France although as yet there has been no definite interest .
5 Dr Marsh said : ‘ There has been no radical change to our financial situation since the Annual General Meeting in August , apart from the income that has been generated through the gates .
6 There has been no general attempt to rewrite the history of the period from a perspective based on changes in consumption and material culture ( though see Mukerji 1983 ) , but two examples may be suggestive , the first derived from historians and the second from studies of material culture .
7 There has been no political pressure from the Foreign Office or elsewhere to prevent the exhibition .
8 there has been no adverse change in the financial position or prospects of the Business ;
9 What is more , there has been no other deposit quite like it either before or since , except perhaps some Miocene chalks which themselves are remarkably widespread : in the western approaches to the English Channel , in Malta , Cyprus and the Middle East and all the way to New Zealand .
10 There has been no other business items and the same for there 's been no questions either .
11 As yet there has been no other attempt to describe so vividly in dance the wish of any character , but in this case a puppet , to escape from prison .
12 There has been no other attempt that I know of to theorise dance and its particular appeal for girls .
13 But this has been no ordinary tour for England , beaten 3–0 in the Indian Test series and consistently outplayed on the pitches of the sub-continent .
14 A Sri Lankan total of 408 for eight , and a first-innings deficit so far of 28 , would not normally be a cause for satisfaction , but this has been no ordinary tour for England , beaten 3-0 in the Indian Test series and consistently outplayed on the pitches of the sub-continent .
15 There should be approximate equivalence of numbers so long as there has been no preferential loss of either jaws or teeth , and the expected percentage values should be in the region of 100 per cent .
16 For all these species , therefore , it is assumed that there has been no preferential loss of jaws or teeth and that the numbers would be equivalent except for sampling errors .
17 Up to now , there has been no good explanation for why the observed value should by so small .
18 It was done by Sadlers Wells in the late forties , but there has been no new production until this recent one in the opera .
19 Fletcher ( 1990 ) has argued for the extension of cervical screening after the age of 65 years but as yet there has been no similar argument for breast cancer screening .
20 There has been no similar move in the British parties , although Conservative party conferences have always had a high proportion of women delegates .
21 There has been no serious conflict about the designation of land for particular uses .
22 Despite the changing circumstances within which the press now operates and much evidence with which to discredit its own claims to legitimacy as ‘ the fourth estate ’ , there has been no serious attempt to reconsider the theories of the press and the media generally as they relate to the remaining decade of this century .
23 There has been no serious study of the persistence of Indian beliefs about the origins of diseases or supernatural cures since a study in 1957 , but they are still current among the older generation at least .
24 There has been no serious study made of the overall sociological , economic and political situation of German youth during the Third Reich , and the present investigation is designed to fill an important gap in the historiography of National Socialism in general , and in the social history of Nazi Germany in particular .
25 There has been a massive movement of patients from Belfast to has been no equivalent transfer of resources . ’
26 There has been no credible claim of responsibility so far for the blasts , many of which were caused by car bombs not previously used in India .
27 Mike Stein demonstrates that this is another area of child care in which there has been no large-scale research , but the numbers of small studies available show that the ‘ crude stereotype ’ of care leavers being 18-year olds without families , who have spent their lives in large institutions , must be abandoned .
28 For most individuals this has been no great loss , the system usually being considered a much more complicated procedure than simply walking into a showroom and purchasing whatever took your ( and your pocket 's ) fancy .
29 This has been no small task , Mr Chairman , as a mass of conflicting evidence from a variety of sources has had to be sifted .
30 There has been no technical report which attempts to weigh the economic and environmental costs and benefits of the various options and certainly no technical report which concluded by recommending in favour of an outer northern route .
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