Example sentences of "have [be] [vb pp] [prep] [art] past " in BNC.
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| 1 | The letter reads : ’ With regard to Dr. Vann 's request for retrospective payments to be made to GPs who have been reimbursed under the previous arrangements , the object of the scheme , as has been explained in the past , is to ensure the widest possible spread of computing within a cash-limited budget . ’ |
| 2 | On the one hand , there is the ecclesiastical hierarchy , steeped in what has been written in the past , versed in all the latest aspects of biblical scholarship . |
| 3 | The government has been criticized in the past over training , that there is a skills gap between us and the rest of say the European Community . |
| 4 | This is the approach that has been adopted in the past but , particularly in the non-business area , it has yielded markedly different conclusions . |
| 5 | The way that this has been done in the past is the subject of the next chapter ; the way that it might be done in the future is the justification for this book . |
| 6 | We may try , as has been done in the past , to arm prosecutors and judges with better procedures for discovering police mistakes . |
| 7 | The distinction has to be considered at least to some extent because only by identifying what has been done in the past can one see how deficiencies remain to be corrected in the future research agenda . |
| 8 | Is it the Secretary of State 's intention that the current senior chief inspector should publish his annual report in February , as has been done in the past , or is it his intention , as Secretaries of State managed to do in 1983 and again in 1987 , to delay publication of that report until after the general election ? |
| 9 | It resulted in the erm extra requirement for security which does happen to which Mr has referred and I I think it 's it 's very very important to realise that if that three party cooperation can be achieved as it should be , bearing in mind what Simon says that we are going to have to do this , with horrendous problems in the youth and community project in the future and we would be failing completely in our duty , not just to the people of Highfields , but to the people of this whole county if we simply allowed politics , as has been done in the past , to lead to entrenched positions and the idea of simply saying to the director , we are in a mess therefore will you please deal with it all is I think wildly irresponsible and I 'm very very surprised indeed that erm that point should be put . |
| 10 | It can not be claimed that Leapor is the most obscure of these writers ; indeed , her work has been noticed in the past by some very highly regarded poets and critics . |
| 11 | Mud and other solid matter taken from the beds of watercourses or from the ground over which a discharge has been made in the past may also be collected for analysis . |
| 12 | Contemporary understanding of the idea needs to be placed in the broader context of how the term has been understood in the past , if only to prevent an acceptance , without doubt or enquiry , of present notions of democracy as permanently definitive . |
| 13 | In addition I think there 's some inconsistency , because within Selby district , for example , a lot of development which has been advocated in the past and is likely to be allocated in the future is in places like Selby or Sherburn in Elmet , which again are much nearer to Leeds erm than potential new settlement sites to the South and South , South West of York , and yet objection has been raised to er that particular erm element in the planning strategy for Selby , and I I ca n't see the reason why a new settlement should be treated in any different way to any other form of development in that sense . |
| 14 | Index arbitrage in the UK has been hampered in the past by the lack of a mechanism ( such as DOT in the USA ) to speed up the process of trading a basket of shares , the requirement to pay stamp duty and insufficient liquidity to cope with large arbitrage trades without an adverse price movement ( Price , 1988 ) . |
| 15 | It is referred here to the Dryopithecinae and it includes three groups : ( 1 ) Dryopithecus itself in tribe Dryopithecini ; ( 2 ) a newly proposed tribe , Afropithecini with Afropithecus , Heliopithecus and Otavipithecus , together with material from Maboko Island and Nachola that has been referred in the past to Kenyapithecus ; and ( 3 ) the Kenyapithecini , which includes Kenyapithecus wickeri from Fort Ternan , Griphopithecus alpani from Pasalar , Turkey , and the postcrania from Klein Hadersdorf . |
| 16 | An expense has been defined as a past or expired benefit . |
| 17 | What we sought to do , in terms of Community competence , in the discussions was to extend it in areas where we thought it was appropriate and to define it more adequately than it has been defined in the past in order to prevent , as far as it is possible to prevent it , that element of creeping competence that so offends many people in this country . |
| 18 | It has been open to abuse , and indeed has been abused in the past by the Sheffield Mafia , which continues to exercise a covert control over British climbing media and administration out of all proportion to its collective record or ongoing contribution . |
| 19 | Tonight in a special report we look at how the Forest has been abused in the past , and how it 's still going on today . |
| 20 | It means that um particularly in therapy it can be very difficult later on because things that we would ordinarily consider to be supportive like being kind , like erm y'know kind of putting a comforting arm round somebody 's shoulders , like erm y'know ways in which people express support and affection for each-other ah are very very difficult for the survivor to accept because they 're sort of the part of the way in which she , and it usually is a she , has been abused in the past . |
| 21 | Wherever possible , jobs could be created at localities of most need , but a greater worker mobility than has been displayed in the past should be expected , and where it is not obtained , financial restrictions should be exerted to encourage fit , able but reluctant people to move from the old , worked-out pockets of industry to new opportunities elsewhere . |
| 22 | A degree of statutory definition has been enacted in the past , without any noticeable subsequent insuperable or oppressive difficulties . |
| 23 | In discussing the extent to which sentencing discretion in England and Wales has been subject to control in the past , or is likely to be in the future , we will adopt the threefold classification elaborated by K.C. Davis ( 1969 ) : viz. confining discretion ( or restricting the scope of discretionary power that is available ) ; structuring discretion ( or regulating its exercise in advance ) ; and checking discretion ( or reviewing the way it has been exercised in the past ) . |
| 24 | Informing appropriately has been neglected in the past . |
| 25 | ‘ None of that area has been thought in the past as worthy of structure or local planning notation for its landscape qualities . |
| 26 | But all three novels also exhibit significant variations on parody as it has been practised in the past . |
| 27 | If Talkin Loud has been criticised in the past for not saying much at all , then the fact that storming releases in 1992 from the Young Disciples and Tammy Payne have taken months to see record shop racks has n't helped . |
| 28 | We must take account of the various ways in which the word " style " has been used in the past : but we should be wary of becoming slaves to verbal definition . |
| 29 | Asked about increasing pressure to re-introduce internment , Sir Patrick said : ‘ Internment is a power which has been used in the past both north and south of the border . |
| 30 | In the light of work indicating that the abundance of carbon in high-grade rocks has been underestimated in the past , our results provide strong evidence for the role of carbon in lower-crustal conductivity . |