Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] [conj] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Question 1 of the additional questions will reveal whether or not the road has been adopted and all charges paid . |
2 | These include the purposes for which the product has been manufactured and any instructions or warnings with respect to doing or refraining from doing anything in relation to the product . |
3 | The question has been raised whether these changes result in restoration of the duodenal mucosa and disappearance of gastric epithelium from the duodenal bulb . |
4 | Geoffrey Ross comments ‘ It has been noticed that many men wash their hair in water that is too hot ( which over-stimulates the sebaceous glands and so makes the scalp greasier than it should be ) and are rough-actioned with the towel when drying the hair . |
5 | Nevertheless an important start has been made and some students are being exposed to a segment of African literature . |
6 | But none of these claims has been substantiated and some preparations may actually be dangerous . |
7 | For some time it has been suspected that these voltages affect aquarium fish , causing stress and possibly disease . |
8 | Not only is there a lack of research evidence to support this view , but it has been argued that many children do better remaining in a single-parent family than in having to make further adjustments to a third form of family life — the step-family ( Richards and Dyson , 1982 ) . |
9 | Whilst it has been argued that such firms need financial and general business aid , if they are to fulfil their potential on a timely basis , little is known of their accounting/financial practices and needs . |
10 | It has been argued that such courses come somewhere around the foundation or specific stage in most people 's educational development , although the increasing proportions of mature students must make us wary of too linear a model . |
11 | It has been argued that these policies were adopted at Moscow 's instigation . |
12 | It has been argued that these divisions within the working class are unreconcilable and prevent it acting as a strong , united , radical force . |
13 | Technical difficulties aside , it has been argued that these provisions will not make any appreciable difference to the welfare of victims for , except in the most notorious of cases , most authors receive very small amounts indeed from publication . |
14 | It has been said that few revolutions have been so complete in the British countryside as the start and end of the railway age . |
15 | It has been said that these rules will be applied less stringently to a commercial contract than to other types of document ( Henry Boot Construction v Central Lancashire New Town Development Corpn ( 1980 ) 15 BLR 8 ) but the drafter should bear them in mind and , if possible , avoid their application . |
16 | Whilst it has been assumed that these charges were fabricated by Musgrave ( and perhaps by Thomas Cromwell , q.v. ) , there is evidence to suggest that Dacre did indeed have private arrangements with the Scots which served to divert their raids away from his estates and on to Bewcastle . |
17 | On the other hand , it has been recognized that such concessions can , if applied fairly and without discrimination , aid the efficient administration of the tax system . |
18 | Its success has been limited because some children will work on projects which interest them but which do not tax them sufficiently . |
19 | Additional benefits for unemployment and invalidity have been cut , the ceiling on pensions for widows and widowers has been lowered and all contributors will eventually receive lower pensions than the Labour Government originally intended . |
20 | The judicial statistics inevitably provide an incomplete picture since the only information available relates to matters where a writ has been issued and many disputes may already have been settled by then . |
21 | One person has been hurt and several others injured in a multiple crash involving five vehicles in thick fog . |
22 | However , it has been claimed that some doctors in the province will perform abortions in certain circumstances . |
23 | At Great Dunmow , for instance , it has been suggested that such strips were up to c. 100 m ( 327 ft ) deep , while the Fosse Way southwest of Ilchester was lined by two successive rows of enclosures some 50 by 20 m ( 165 by 66 ft ) in size . |
24 | It has been suggested that such terranes are equivalent to oceanic plateaus , which are to be found in the present-day ocean basins and which often rise several kilometres above the adjacent ocean floor ( Fig. 3.32 ) . |
25 | It has been suggested that such sediments are characteristic of aseismic continental shelves as they move away from a mid-oceanic ridge . |
26 | It has been suggested that such provisos are not effective in protecting a landlord from the severity of the law and can not be set up as a defence to the claim that by accepting rent the breach of covenant has been waived . |
27 | They may have been the gigantic reptilian analogue of the elephant , and it may be no coincidence that the elephant also has its nasal openings on top of the skull , with the nostrils in this case sited at the end of the trunk it has been suggested that some sauropods may have had a proboscis of some sort . |
28 | It has been suggested that some sounds are distracting than others and that there are certain kinds of mental activity that are more at risk than others . |
29 | More recently , however , it has been suggested that these subgovernments have been increasingly complemented by the development of what are called ‘ issue networks ’ . |
30 | Carlo was made a cardinal at 22 and Archbishop of Milan at 26 , though it has been suggested that these appointments were as much due to the boy 's uncle being Pope Pius IV as to any inherent abilities . |