Example sentences of "has [been] [adj] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group acknowledge that Scotland has been slower than the rest of the country to produce credible dance music . |
| 2 | Speed has been essential because the Secretary of State 's timetable is formidable ( see below ) . |
| 3 | In practice , the MMC has sometimes reported against foreign takeovers as contrary to the public interest , but the reasoning has been other than a desire to stifle competition ( e.g. the report on Government of Kuwait/British Petroleum , 1988 , which decided that it was contrary to the public interest for the Government of Kuwait to gain a major shareholding in BP ) . |
| 4 | We are looking at that , but to suggest that there has been other than a clear and steady increase in available services would be a travesty of the truth . |
| 5 | Moreover that growth has been greatest where the decline in manufacturing employment has been least — that is , in the regions of ‘ the south ’ . |
| 6 | But Germany has been peaceful because the East Prussians were under our control . |
| 7 | In recent years , the decrease in the number of deaf children has been greater than the general national decrease , though this is mainly in the numbers of partially-hearing children rather than deaf children . |
| 8 | Hopkinton , Massachusetts-based EMC Corp reported first quarter net profit more than twice what they were in the year-ago period — figures , page five — and says that demand for the Symmetrix 5500 series disk arrays has been greater than the company expected , so that it has had to increase the build plan for the remainder of the year . |
| 9 | This has been possible because the interiors of regions I , II and III are all flat . |
| 10 | This has been possible because the phrase ‘ sufficient interest ’ is very vague and leaves it largely up to the courts to decide what interests are sufficient . |
| 11 | So far as I am aware , we have no evidence , for example , to show whether male unemployment which in some areas has been higher than the rate for females , has enabled tending tasks of old relatives to be taken on by men who remain at home . |
| 12 | For example , if a school has attempted to improve its image in the neighbourhood it may feel that it has been successful if the number selecting the school for the following academic year increases . |
| 13 | ‘ This indulgence by journalists and sadly a small number of politicians has been transparent since the shadow cabinet elections in August . ’ |
| 14 | Ward , the world No 2 looking forward to being packaged as ‘ Dazzling Daz ’ , has been unemployed since the sale of his father 's butchery business and still lives with his parents . |
| 15 | Holly Park , once the home of South Liverpool FC , has been empty since the club gave up the battle against vandals in 1990 . |
| 16 | The Holly Park site in Garston has been empty since the club gave up the battle against vandals in 1990 . |
| 17 | So localism is a Major political reality , and the tendency towards localism has been stronger than the tendency towards a national identity . |
| 18 | This decline has been faster than the decline in employment , dropping from 13.3 million in 1979 , to 10.7 million in 1985 , a 19.5 per cent decline since 1979 . |