Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] has been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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31 Pesticide levels in drinking water are already above legal limits in many areas ; the cost of reducing pesticide levels in the drinking water of 30 eastern towns to acceptable levels has been put at DM450 million .
32 This model of client-bureaucracy relations has been summarized by Etzioni-halevy , who concludes that
33 The chronic shortage of currency for the acquisition of contemporary foreign publications has been cited as justification .
34 The right of criticism of government institutions and the conduct of affairs by public bodies has been upheld in other common law countries .
35 Finally , public relations has been looked at in some detail , because this area has expanded most over recent years and its relationship to the selling function is a very direct one as the sales force is increasingly being called upon to carry out PR activity .
36 An attractive programme of visits to both transport and cultural centres has been arranged for your interest .
37 Li Peng , the Chinese Premier , told Nguyen Manh Cam on Sept. 11 that with the progress in the political settlement of the Cambodian issue [ see pp. 38440-41 ] , " the normalization of Sino-Vietnamese relations has been put on the agenda " .
38 The subsequent demoralisation in evidence throughout British coalfields has been mitigated to some degree in South Yorkshire by blame for defeat focusing on a clearly identifiable minority , who in response have developed a set of parallel social institutions .
39 The decline in the demand for wooden poles has been accelerated by the frequent use of metal poles .
40 The potential pathogenicity of free radicals has been emphasised by recent work which suggests that reactive oxygen metabolities are not just one of a number of mediators and cytokines involved in the inflammatory process in inflammatory bowel disease but may have a pivotal role by initiating the expression of genes controlling may other aspects of the inflammatory , immune , and acute phase response , by activation of the transcription factor NF-kΒ .
41 This book is not , therefore , divided on traditional lines and a mixture of analytical and narrative chapters has been adopted in order to bring out , whenever possible , the general rather than the local and particular , characteristics of European history in this period .
42 The optimistic belief that the essence of reality can be explored by scientific laws has been exposed as a failure to see that the mere phenomenon is not the sole reality .
43 Land made derelict by old industries has been reclaimed on a massive scale .
44 They support Cory Aquino ; but the barefoot health workers ' small supply of free drugs has been curtailed by her administration .
45 Remember the County Council has had to find ten million , and to a certain extent , therefore , Social Services has been protected by the County Council acknowledging what you 've just said , the pressures on it and the importance of its services .
46 The apparent existence of an economically unproductive residuum of social outcasts has been traced as a feature of social investigation and social policy by , among others , Stedman Jones ( 1971 ) and John Macnicol ( 1988 ) .
47 A MULTI-MILLION pound building project aimed at boosting British jobs has been handed to the Germans .
48 It is not perhaps surprising that concern over the handling of agricultural matters has been expressed from a number of parks including Exmoor and the North York Moors where pressures for reclamation have been , and perhaps still are , considerable .
49 The type of employment offered by manufacturing industry in rural areas has been questioned for a number of reasons .
50 ‘ On a lighter note , the Battle of the Bands in Fairport , Rhode Island , during which heavy metal groups Deathtongue and the Mothers of Violence played simultaneous sets in the same auditorium for thirty-eight straight hours has been resolved in single combat between the rival lead singers .
51 The ‘ proletarianization ’ of such groups has been stimulated by their rapid post-war growth , and because they are directly employed by large corporations or the state .
52 A letter alleging offers of preferential inducements has been handed to the EC 's competition commissioner , Karl Van Miert .
53 Peripheral neuropathy after use of arsenic containing ethnic remedies has been reported from India , but is not a recognised health hazard in the United Kingdom .
54 The idea of maximizing the product of individual utilities has been employed by Fair ( 1971 ) and has been criticized by Ng ( 1979 ) .
55 They claim that some 2,000 acres has been subsumed into the Park .
56 With this in mind , a general guide to the assessment and control of such risks has been published by the HSE .
57 Evidence of similar methods has been found in Japanese , Chinese , Egyptian , Roman and Greek cultures .
58 Transfer of the human ADA gene into haematopoietic stem-cell precursors has been achieved in murine models , and long-term expression of the transplanted human ADA gene in rhesus monkeys has now been demonstrated .
59 However , in recent years a blitz on such companies has been mounted with the result that there has been some improvement .
60 Austria 's imposition of mandatory labelling for tropical imports has been criticised by the Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) .
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