Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [verb] [conj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dramatic succession of disposals from the TI Group , following Sir Christopher Lewinton 's appointment , has been completed and in 1991 the group 's entire £900m turnover came from continuing operations , whereas in 1987 , £394m came from continuing operations and £462m from discontinued operations . |
| 2 | The UK Department of Transport 's plans to build a road through rare water meadows in Herefordshire have been rejected on environmental grounds after a public inquiry — reportedly the first time that a road project has been halted because of environmental concern . |
| 3 | It has been recognised that without sufficient processing capacity a potentially serious waste problem could arise . |
| 4 | This raises significant problems in the education system where , historically , responsibility for hygiene factors has been fragmented and of disputed significance . |
| 5 | However it has been stated that at worst similar results to those in non-diabetics might be anticipated ( Christlieb , 1982 ) . |
| 6 | It has been observed that on increasing number of industrial disputes actually begin at the grass roots ; trade union leaders merely invoke democracy and then proceed to lead from behind . |
| 7 | On the basis of an estimated 10 per cent of the Earth 's surface currently being part of a hot-spot swell it has been calculated that on average hot-spot epeirogeny should affect a particular area of crust about every 600 Ma . |
| 8 | It has been calculated that in 1922 an average of 38 minutes would be spent on going to work and coming back , with a working day of between 14 and 15 hours in the warmer months . |
| 9 | It has been calculated that in general elections from 1922 to 1977 inclusive average " leakages " amounted to roughly one-fifth of Fianna Fail 's potential votes , a quarter of Fine Gael 's and one third of Labour 's . |
| 10 | In many companies the normal management accounting system will only pick up a currency exposure when the sales entry has been made and by that time adverse currency fluctuations could have eroded or wiped out the profit margin . |
| 11 | The transition to fourth normal form has been made because of multivalued dependencies ( Fagin , 1977 ) . |
| 12 | By letting the property market lead , the industrial sector has been ignored and on many occasions existing industry has been driven out or left to die . |
| 13 | It has been argued that at this stage ‘ the growth of Protestantism was far from a major problem ’ ; its spread , and the numbers involved , were very limited . |
| 14 | But against this theory it has been argued that over large parts of the zebra 's range , insects are not a major problem , so without further analysis the idea is once again inconclusive . |
| 15 | Somewhat less obviously , it has been argued that in certain circumstances States can be treated as parties to the Court 's exercise of its advisory jurisdiction . |
| 16 | It has been argued that in most mining areas the strong sense of ‘ community ’ stems from the overwhelming importance of the coal-mining industry in the area and from the shared experiences this produces for male miners . |
| 17 | It has been said that in recent years his allegiance shifted from Sisley to Monet ! ’ |
| 18 | At the moment erm because of the extra time we 've got available because production investment has been delayed because of ministerial decisions , we 've set in train three further studies and they will look collectively at alternatives , comparison in combat modelling and also in the numbers and if I could describe those three very briefly because I think they 're the they 're relevant to what we 're talking about . |
| 19 | On the telecommunications side , research is being carried out into high bandwidths that require high repetition pulses — a rate of 200GHz has been achieved and into Erbium-doped fibre amplifiers , which are a key component for future optical networks . |
| 20 | Jespersen , for instance , is of the opinion that although " to had at first its ordinary prepositional meaning of direction … the meaning of the preposition has been weakened and in some cases totally extinguished " ( 1927 : 10 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ I do think that public concern over the leniency of the original sentence has been assuaged and in that sense I suppose some justice has been done . ’ |
| 22 | For one thing , the poet thus extolled has been presented as above all poetically ‘ a democrat ’ . |
| 23 | Looking at different parts of the tropical world , it has been noted that by 1981 only 20% of all rain forests including tropical ones in Australia remained when compared with the total at European settlement ( 1788 ) and that there were only a few thousand ha left in northern Queensland , all accessible forest outside National Parks having been ( or likely to be ) logged , leaving an archipelago of ‘ refugia ’ . |
| 24 | Excavation work has been suspended except for intensive investigation of the Casa degli Amanti Castati in the Insula of Menander . |
| 25 | The UN evacuation of the besiged Bosnian town of Srebrenica has been suspended because of Serbian shelling . |
| 26 | A plan to harness the hot springs of the Soufriere volcano on St Lucia , in the Caribbean , to generate geothermal energy has been abandoned because of unexpected technical problems and lack of funds . |
| 27 | It has been alleged that at this rate it would take 300 years to examine all the programmes outlined in Table 15.1 above . |
| 28 | It has been suggested that in such cases , the offender 's benefit should be channelled to a general victim compensation fund . |
| 29 | It has been suggested that in certain circumstances a person who withholds unpublished price sensitive information may be said to have committed an offence under the subsection . |
| 30 | It has been suggested that in Continental Europe the integration of mountain and lowland zones must be developed , the latter producing high energy crops for beef animals and the former developed for breeding beef animals for which they are more ecologically suited than milk ( 3 ) . |