Example sentences of "[noun] have [been] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | More recently a string of no less than thirty cylinder seals made of lapis lazuli has been recovered from a Mycenaean house at Thebes . |
| 2 | Retail price maintenance still being lawful in the case of books , the publisher might well include the recommended retail price on the cover of the book ( or in an advertisement ) , only to be surprised subsequently to learn that a retailer has been selling at a different price . |
| 3 | In this period of her life the fifty-year-old duchess has been transformed from a tough old battleaxe into " the presiding genius in a society of knights and troubadours " . |
| 4 | Now , one floor of the building has been converted into a 40-place day centre and another into a ten-bed assessment and rehabilitation unit . |
| 5 | Since then the building has been used as a village hall for the local community but still belongs to the Herons Trust . |
| 6 | One reason why farm workers ' wages remain so comparatively low is that the demand for labour within agriculture has been declining as a result of mechanization-Indeed , the prospect of more expensive labour has often been sufficient to stimulate farmers to engage in a further round of mechanization so that both the supply and the demand for labour have chased each other down in an ever-decreasing spiral . |
| 7 | Santa Clara , California-based Software Publishing Corp has been hit by a shareholder class action lawsuit alleging securities violations between January 21 1993 and April 2 1993 , which also names two of the company 's officers as defendants : the company says the suit has no merit and will fight it vigorously . |
| 8 | NEC Corp has been hit by a downgrading from Moody 's Investors Service Inc , which cut the long-term debt rating to A3 from A2 . |
| 9 | The concentration of chlorinated hydrocarbons in the site effluent has been cut to an average of two parts per million from 22 in December 1988 . |
| 10 | There is even a list of offices which claims that a dux was in charge of twelve civitates , but although this text has been seen as a Merovingian document , it is almost certainly a school-book , originating perhaps in the British Isles . |
| 11 | Management development within British Rail has been built around a leadership programme for their top managers . |
| 12 | In effect , the Grand Canyon has been turned into an irrigation ditch , between Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Mead , the reservoir of Hoover Dam downstream . |
| 13 | One of the most important finds of late Roman gold and silver coins and objects has been located by a local man , retired gardener Eric Lawes , with a metal detector in a field in Suffolk . |
| 14 | Satyāgraha has been described in a variety of ways . |
| 15 | After hair has been analysed under a unique microviewer system , each customer is given a personalised programme of hair and scalp treatment . |
| 16 | Long hair has been styled into a beautiful . |
| 17 | A HUGE man-like creature covered with ginger hair has been spotted in a Chinese national park . |
| 18 | Since then a huge influence on sicko rockers everywhere , the whole gory story has been re-cast as a full-blown opera — The Manson Family . |
| 19 | One corporate-centred bargaining strategy in the form of ‘ coalition ’ bargaining has been adopted by a number of US unions since the 1960s . |
| 20 | Permission has been given for an 18-hole golf course at the Redworth Hall Hotel , near Heighington . |
| 21 | If the damage has been caused by an insured peril covered under Part B e.g. fire damage , then the damage to the freezer would be covered under Part B — Household Contents . |
| 22 | what monitoring systems should be put in place to assess whether more efficient health care provision has been secured as a result of the White Paper ? |
| 23 | The teaching of study skills should of course obviate the problems that arise in assignments and projects , but generally this provision has been made at a later stage of the pupils ' school career , at the sixth-form level , when a recognized amount of their time is allocated to private study . |
| 24 | A bad debt provision has been made against a customer 's debt where insolvency proceedings have recently commenced . |
| 25 | The reduction in the scale of long term geriatric provision has been accompanied by an increase in the provision of residential care and nursing homes . |
| 26 | In the 1980s local decentralization has been occurring at a slower pace than in the previous decade and in some cases appears to have gone into reverse . |
| 27 | No decision has been made over a youth coach , a position Hankin held before his sudden promotion to the manager 's office . |
| 28 | The first claim insists that once a crisp decision has been made by a body sanctioned by convention , and the content of that decision is fixed by conventions about how such decisions should be understood , judges must respect that decision , even if they think a different one would have been fairer or wiser . |
| 29 | Whilst this decision has been criticised as a " narrow " interpretation of the law ( ibid ) , our examination of the nature of casual working and the characteristics of the casual labour force in the hotels and catering sector raises the question of whether according casual workers employee status , and thus bringing them within the coverage of employment protection legislation , would be of any great relevance . |
| 30 | The NRA 's decision has been welcomed as an example of the precautionary principle being put into practice . |