Example sentences of "this [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has been central to the Catholic tradition as we well know . |
| 2 | I 've never entirely agreed with the policy of restricted entry , although one knows all the arguments why this has been necessary . |
| 3 | Paralleling this has been increasing acceptance of artificial insemination by donor although little is known of how the private citizen and the community at large view this , in vitro fertilisation and other similar medical techniques . |
| 4 | I would be interested to know whether this has been successful in reducing speed and accidents , but my impression is that it has worked very well . |
| 5 | The EURODASS consortium led by Marconi Defence Systems Limited offered a solution , and this has been subject to rigorous scrutiny to confirm that it meets the necessary technical criteria . |
| 6 | This has been invaluable in challenging simplicities about , say , the ‘ repression ’ of sexuality in nineteenth-century Europe , and in questioning the teleological view which sees a gradual climb towards permissiveness from Victorian darkness . |
| 7 | Now I do n't know if you think this has been useful |
| 8 | This has been extraordinary . |
| 9 | So the psychology of the course was created and this has been integral to the development of the tournament . |
| 10 | Erm and if it 's not it 's er I 'm not going to deny the fact that some people say you know this has been good for me for the last eighteen months erm I 'm er I 'm used to being self employed I 'm going to stay that way but I 'm looking at other avenues . |
| 11 | Winter wheats are slightly backward because of cold weather , but the benefit of this has been disease-free crops with good root development . |
| 12 | This has been undesirable , but not of critical importance because our income from invisible exports has made good the difference . |
| 13 | In part this has been due to a failure to look at the right parts of the higher order visual cortex , using the right stimuli . |
| 14 | This has been due to the lack of understanding of the origins of this pottery . |
| 15 | In part this has been due to budget reformers making overenthusiastic claims for overelaborate systems . |
| 16 | This has been due largely to the growth of council housing and perhaps to the improvement grants policy of successive governments particularly since 1969 . |
| 17 | " If we have been unable to give Spain greater well-being " , he said , " let it be very clear that this has been due to foreign incomprehension . " |
| 18 | This has been due to agriculture and forestry activities , which must now be considered . |
| 19 | A request has been made to read out the module to be updated but this has been unsuccessful . |
| 20 | This has been possible because the interiors of regions I , II and III are all flat . |
| 21 | Only recently , Indian organisations such as the Shuar Federation have persuaded the government to grant legal titles to communal Indian land holdings , and in some cases this has been possible only after foreign volunteers have carried out the necessary land surveys . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | These data are insufficient to establish the variation of seismic wave speeds with depth in the Moon to anything like the same extent with which this has been possible in the Earth . |
| 24 | This has been irritating , but easy to deal with . |
| 25 | Perhaps they really prefer more natural food and this has been plentiful , but that it not obviously so . |
| 26 | This has been open to doubt since June 8 , 1989 when an extreme left-wing group pumped 20 bullets into Valenzuela 's former chief , ‘ Wally ’ Fuentes Morrison . |
| 27 | This has been obvious since the seventeenth century . |
| 28 | If this has been true of the past , it is even more true of the present and seems likely to be truer still of the future . |
| 29 | This has been true at any time between four and 25 years after marriage . |
| 30 | The mill still contains its iron half-breast shot wheel together with all the machinery , stones etc , although much of this has been idle since the early 1950s and has fallen into disrepair . |