Example sentences of "[vb -s] be a considerable [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However much teasing that must have provoked , her voice has been a considerable advantage over the years . |
| 2 | A consequence of these changes to the control of the curriculum has been a considerable increase in the number of legal provisions . |
| 3 | There has been a considerable increase in the number of night visits claimed for by general practitioners since the introduction of their 1990 contract , which brought two changes to the relevant payment structure . |
| 4 | Mr. Roberts : I can certainly confirm that there has been a considerable increase in the number of applications for section 4 assistance from 1980–81 when there were 160 applications to the current year 's forecast of 224 applications . |
| 5 | THERE has been a considerable outcry from St Helens supporters over the eight-match ban imposed on the club 's Kiwi loose forward Shane Cooper two weeks ago . |
| 6 | Since he first published his equations there has been a considerable literature developed which is devoted to expanding and refining this algebraic approach , but it was Bukharin who helped lay the foundation for this later work . |
| 7 | It is obviously not necessary to cite cases for the proposition that there has been a considerable development in the scope of judicial review in the second half of this century . |
| 8 | Table 5 suggests that there has been a considerable reduction in the degree of wealth inequality this century . |
| 9 | At the local level , there has been a considerable range of approaches to public transport provision . |
| 10 | The growing number of life sentence prisoners has been a considerable problem for the prison service for some years now . |
| 11 | This has been a considerable help to the many students who finance themselves through their HCIMA studies . |
| 12 | Since this condemnation of research opportunity , few studies have penetrated deeply beneath the sensitive skin of ‘ police culture ’ , and even though Chatterton in his notes to my thesis argued there has been a considerable amount of ‘ participant police research ’ , I would question whether many of these inquiries achieved the finer grain and detail' of the insider 's account , for they can never really know or tell if they have been excluded from the inner workings of police practice or prevented from gaining access to the hidden realities ‘ contained inside the heads of the constables ’ . |
| 13 | Whilst , over the years , there has been a considerable amount of work on costing such flows , a more important question from the point of view of planning is the fact that the home ( exporting ) authority is compulsorily required to pay for such flows whilst having no control over them ( Brazier , 1986 & 1987 ; Mullen , 1986 ) . |
| 14 | Comparative analysis suggests that there has been a considerable amount of divergence of evolution in the cortices of different mammalian lines . |
| 15 | Over the last 4–5 years there has been a considerable amount of activity in the colony due to the expiry of the lease in 1997 when the land on which the colony has been built reverts back to its previous owner the Republic of China . |
| 16 | Which , of course , momentarily , it did : ‘ Two weeks , ’ she boldly and brightly continued , breaking the trance like stillness with a frisky movement of her head and braceleted right arm , ‘ yes , two weeks , in Kyoto and Osaka , it should be quite fascinating , quite an opportunity to see a completely different culture , of course it relates to our own work at the Institute in a very particular way , it seems that there has been a considerable amount of research done in the department we are visiting on the problems of adoption and stepparents . |
| 17 | As suggested in the last chapter , there has been a considerable amount of conflict in recent years about the autonomy of these authorities as ‘ policy makers ’ . |
| 18 | And the education legislation , of which there has been a considerable amount , is now much more specific . ’ |
| 19 | Over the last few years , there has been a considerable amount of interest regarding the role of joint consultation in British Industrial Relations . |
| 20 | To date there has been a considerable amount of research into the organisational and employee implications of introducing new technology . |
| 21 | For many years there has been a considerable amount of interest in the extent to which industrial relations play a significant role in explaining variations in economic performance . |
| 22 | From the 1970s on there has been a considerable surge of scholarly and public interest in the private media and , latterly , in their role in the Third World . |
| 23 | Across the whole sector , there has been a considerable diversification in course provision . |
| 24 | There has been a considerable fashion for functionalist accounts among Western Marxists , since an apparently more elegant intellectual apparatus than those of orthodox instrumentalists can be constructed . |
| 25 | However , there has been a considerable improvement in that club 's cash flow and its level of indebtedness is better supported than it appeared to be at the time of last year 's review . |
| 26 | Reliance on the nature of local commitment has been a considerable obstacle to lessening dependence on the mental hospitals . |
| 27 | There has been a considerable growth in the demand for applied social science from industry and , particularly , government , reflecting the increased willingness of governments to intervene in society ( whether their own or someone else 's ) , so that sociologists are being increasingly consulted in respect of certain problems ranging from population control to terrorist control . |
| 28 | At the undergraduate level there has been a considerable growth in degrees which add a phrase such as ‘ with Study in Europe ’ to an existing degree in science or engineering . |
| 29 | In recent years there has been a considerable growth in the use of microcomputers for the analysis of qualitative data . |
| 30 | There has been a considerable debate about equalising retirement ages for men and women in the state scheme . |