Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] has been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bowel scintigraphy using Indium-111 labelled leucocytes has been applied to the assessment of disease extent and activity in Crohn 's disease . |
| 2 | The creation of highly selective band-pass or band-stop filters based on appropriate resonant branches has been alluded to in the previous section . |
| 3 | ONE of the principal components of the German question , and of the entire European situation , is the recognition of the fact that the question of European borders has been solved in a definitive and irrevocable manner . |
| 4 | Their spatial distribution in some rural districts has been noted by Dunn et al . |
| 5 | A haul of stolen cars has been seized by police officers in a two day operation in which eighteen people were arrested . |
| 6 | A haul of stolen cars has been seized by police officers in a two day operation in which eighteen people were arrested . |
| 7 | This is another attempt to waste parliamentary time — already 280 hours has been wasted in this way in the past two decades . ’ |
| 8 | Marlborough 's list of British artists has been strengthened by the recent addition of Christopher Lebrun , formerly contracted to Nigel Greenwood . |
| 9 | Thus it is suggested that a hierarchy of social groups has been replaced by a hierarchy of individuals . |
| 10 | Second , the hierarchy of residential roads has been deepened by the addition of a series of new classifications at the low-volume end as Figure 7.2 shows . |
| 11 | The ecology of saline lakes has been reviewed by Heywood ( 1984 ) and Vincent ( 1988 ) . |
| 12 | Most significantly , the structure of many rifts examined by seismic methods has been shown to be asymmetric with most of the downthrow occurring along a major boundary listric fault on one side of the rift . |
| 13 | The toxic nature of some animals has been known for a long time and man has utilised their venoms and poisons for various purposes . |
| 14 | In Yeovil , in the constituency of the leader of the Liberal Democratic party , the number of patients waiting for more than 12 months has been reduced by 45 per cent. , and the total waiting list is down by 10 per cent . |
| 15 | In Kingston , for example , the list of those waiting more than 12 months has been reduced by 77 per cent . |
| 16 | The changing nature of these relationships can tell us much about broader aspects of political change in Mexico , in particular the extent to which the corporatist pact with peasants , labour and popular sectors has been eroded by the impact of the economic crisis and the search for new forms of political representation within civil society . |
| 17 | Growth in the interventionism of British judges has been noted since the 1960s and is now encapsulated in specific procedures for judicial review . |
| 18 | The giving of legal advice and assistance in relation to matters arising in England and in foreign countries has been considered by the Central Committee and they take the view that standing the provision in the Act , all a Scottish solicitor is entitled to do is to give the client preliminary advice on his legal position and the course of action open to him . |
| 19 | Dealing first with ( a ) , the normal modus operandi in the case of new issues by public companies has been described in Chapter 13 : a would-be shareholder will apply in response to the prospectus , listing particulars or circular ; if the application is accepted he will be sent an allotment letter ; and this completes the needful agreement to become a member and shareholder . |
| 20 | If not , the ratification of Maastricht should not be taken as a signal that the Europe of the past few decades has been assured of perpetuity , but rather that a redefinition of its ambitions is overdue . |
| 21 | And it will mark society 's rejection of the morally indefensible promotion of addiction to what for at least 30 years has been recognised as a most dangerous drug . |
| 22 | The transformation of the Japanese economy over the past 30 years has been highlighted by its stunning record of growth in output , productivity and exports . |
| 23 | The debate aimed at winning more control over policy , staff and top appointments has been fuelled by the row over the party 's policy on water privatisation and the question-mark over the shadow Scottish secretary , Tom Clarke . |
| 24 | A lithological model for Upper Carboniferous formations has been established with suggested parameter for the major constituent minerals . |
| 25 | A £20 MILLION contract which will help to safeguard about 100 jobs over the next few years has been won by GEC Ferranti of Edinburgh . |
| 26 | Does my hon. Friend agree that the stunning improvement in telecommunications in this country in the past 12 years has been led by British Telecom ? |
| 27 | The increase in the number of single-parent families has been detailed in Part I. The rise has been so significant that , had it not been overshadowed by the advent of mass unemployment , much of today 's public debate about welfare reform would be centred on how best to help this group of claimants . |
| 28 | A similar voluntary code formed by British firms has been proposed by the Department of Health ( New Scientist . 20 January , p 143 ) — |
| 29 | As a consequence of the CROWN rating of some establishments has been reduced by one or more CROWNS . |
| 30 | The notion of the sociolinguistic variable whose variants are assumed to lie on single co-extensive phonetic and social dimensions has been criticized by ( amongst others ) Hudson and Holloway ( 1977 ) ; Romaine ( 1978a ) and Knowles ( 1978 ) . |