Example sentences of "[noun] have been [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does seem to me an extraordinary catalogue of errors erm and one can well understand how errors take p er could , could have occurred during the somewhat co chaotic passage of the Railways Bill er what , what can not be understood and what is quite inexcusable is , is the fact that no steps adequate steps have been taken to correct those errors and to assure the er continued existence of a er Transport Police which er h h has the sole responsibility for er policing large public spaces in , in this country and er as the Noble Lord has made clear , er does it honour er very considerable scale , very effectively er I hope that the Minister will find it possible to make a favourable reply to the arguments which have been raised . |
| 2 | BLUE Velvet have been forced to cancel some of their gigs because of a lack of new material . |
| 3 | Pupils received a pat on the back for satisfactory learning and community work but heads have been told to review some management and teaching methods . |
| 4 | This year marked the tenth anniversary of THE FACE , but whereas parties have been thrown to commemorate this occasion , nobody has bothered to hold a ‘ do ’ for the tenth anniversary of the training shoe . |
| 5 | Several methods have been used to detect this response , including agglutination , complement fixation , and enzyme linked immunosorbent assay ( ELISA ) . |
| 6 | Methods have been used to overcome these problems to some degree . |
| 7 | A number of methods have been proposed to achieve this aim , including the Viterbi algorithm ( Viterbi , 1967 ; Neuhoff , 1975 ; Shinghal and Toussaint , 1979a ) , probabilistic relaxation ( Goshtasby and Ehrich , 1988 ) , and the Recursive Bayes algorithm ( Raviv , 1967 ; Shinghal , Rosenberg and Toussaint , 1978 ) . |
| 8 | Orrell have been invited to join some of rugby 's elite and take part in the Dubai Sevens on November 19 and 20 . |
| 9 | Accident and school roll data have been analysed to identify those schools which have high casualty rates per head of school roll . |
| 10 | Study at such world levels can now be achieved first because enough process data have been collected to allow some degree of national and world pattern to be discerned ; secondly because international cooperation has been initiated specifically to remedy the past deficiencies of data coverage ; and thirdly because the opportunities of remote sensing are now beginning to provide further clues to the world picture . |
| 11 | How many little voices have been silenced to censor such embarrassing moments ! |
| 12 | Gordon Parkes , the firm 's head of human resources , said : ‘ Some current job roles are being discontinued and new more appropriate roles have been developed to meet these increased demands from the market place . |
| 13 | The club have been invited to join some of rugby 's elite in the Dubai Sevens to be held on November 19 and 20 when they will face one of the toughest rugby sevens line-ups ever assembled . |
| 14 | Interestingly enough , even hens and rats have been found to consume more calories when they are offered a varied diet than when they are fed ‘ the same old thing ’ all the time . |
| 15 | The Spanish government has promised to pay some of the Pts 11 billion ( US$95 million ) cost of building the Barcelona synchrotron , and the European Communities have been asked to provide half of the money . |
| 16 | Many ingenious models have been proposed to explain these spatiotemporal aspects of calcium signalling . |
| 17 | All of these different methods however produce significant measures of mobility deprivation in rural areas , and since neither the conventional nor innovative approaches to public transport have been shown to do more than ameliorate or delay the decline in rural transport provision , many authors have called either for some of the options in Figure 6. 1b or for a ‘ total approach ’ to the problem . |
| 18 | Two special fun days have been arranged to allow all Journal readers the chance to enjoy the delights of Britain 's number one theme park , Alton Towers , at a discount rate . |
| 19 | The gases have been used to cool most types of fridges for decades but are now headed for a world-wide ban in 1996 after being blamed for causing holes in the ozone layer , which shields the earth from the sun 's harmful ultraviolet rays . |
| 20 | Between nineteen hundred and one and nineteen hundred and six , increasing illness erm severely restricted Proust 's social engagements , and indeed because of his asthma erm he tended to stay in bed during the day , and get up only at night , though even those who do n't suffer from asthma have been known to adopt this regime for other purposes . |
| 21 | Originally the class of persons entitled to claim was limited to the wife , husband , parent and child of the deceased but over the years the classes have been extended to enable all those classes mentioned in the 1976 Act to claim . |
| 22 | It now supports Motif and its management of NIS netgroup maps and its interface have been enhanced to include more user feedback , detailed error messages , expanded notification and auditing services and faster installation . |
| 23 | These and related observations have been interpreted to mean that " deep dyslexics ' are unable to employ a phonological code , that is , they can not decode a word in terms of its sound structure , and have to rely on a purely visual code in retrieving words from their internal dictionary or lexicon ( Warrington and Shallice , 1979 ; Coltheart , 1980a ) . |
| 24 | Brass bands , jazz bands , school bands and groups of dancers have been booked to perform each lunchtime at three Chelmsford venues up to and including Saturday . |
| 25 | But , as Roger Lawson of Southampton University has pointed out , more efforts have been made to counter this localism by the Money Advice Association ( founded in 1984 ) and the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux . |
| 26 | Strenuous efforts have been made to program such recognition abilities into microcomputers and several packages for manipulating and comparing spectra are available . |
| 27 | Firstly , I am reporting to you that there has been in the current year additional efficiency savings over and above those that previously anticipated er at the level of two hundred thousand pounds and so we are assuming in the budget erm that those can continue into ninety four , five and thereafter , and then we 'll see the resolutions have been amended to take that into account and the text of the erratum sheet explains how that 's been done . |
| 28 | ( 5 ) Victory in a symbolic struggle means that one 's symbolic goods have been judged to possess more value than those of one 's competitors . |
| 29 | In Spain , the policies of the enterprises controlled by the holding company INI have been said to follow those of their private sector counterparts , to the detriment of the national interest in areas such as pricing policy and import controls ( e.g. Tamames 1986 : 177–80 ) . |
| 30 | A fifty bed cottage hospital is under threat as G Ps have been told to spend more time in their surgeries . |