Example sentences of "[adj] has be [vb pp] on the " in BNC.

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1 Little has been done on the ecology of deep-sea species apart from observations on certain conspicuous species such as Ophiomusium lymani in the course of more general studies ( Barham et al.
2 The work of women in both the RFC and RAF ( WAAF ) has of course been fully documented , but little has been written on the subject apart from in propaganda and other official literature .
3 Little has been written on the subject since then , but one may infer from the few remarks that are made on it that psychologists are no longer so impressed by ‘ the insuperable logical difficulty ’ James believed there to be in the way of saying that the difference between sensations may be one of ‘ place pure and simple ’ .
4 In contrast , very little has been written on the presence of a risk premium for index futures .
5 So far , little has been published on the time trends for anal cancer , probably because of the limited access to long term data and those truly representative of populations .
6 I could not possibly do justice in this speech to all that has been written on the subject , but I hope that I have profited from the many articles which I have read since the hearing .
7 More than once this has been printed on the programme as ‘ coming to terms with your own immortality ’ .
8 This has been criticised on the ground that an accidental escape caused by the forces of nature is within the risk that must be accepted by the defendant when he accumulates the substance on his land .
9 Much has been written on the subject of the quest for enlightenment .
10 Much has been written on the larger species of mammalian predator and their importance as bone accumulators , but little has been done on predators of small mammals .
11 Much has been written on the topic of occupational health and hygiene and it is recognised that the provision of an adequate and tolerable physical working environment and the promotion of a general feeling of well being among the workforce , is not only important in preventing occupational disease , but in the prevention of accidents .
12 Much has been written on the social and environmental costs of opencast coal .
13 Much has been written on the performance of British business during the period and many attempts have been made to explain , excuse or refute what has been seen as a decline in British innovative ability since the successes of the industrial revolution .
14 Much has been written on the subject of causative verbs and causativity , and , more particularly , about the semantic and transformational relation between lexical causatives ( such as the verb kill ) and periphrastic forms ( such as cause to die ) .
15 The mercurial Polish international has been left on the bench for the last three games following a 5–1 defeat at Brentford .
16 More than $8 billion has been spent on the programme so far , to little visible effect .
17 Where a plaintiff claims the delivery of goods let under a hire-purchase agreement to a person other than a body corporate , he shall in his particulars state in the following order : ( 1 ) the date of the agreement and the parties to it , with the number of the agreement or sufficient particulars to enable the debtor to identify the agreement ; ( 2 ) where the plaintiff was not one of the original parties to the agreement , the means by which the rights and duties of the creditor under the agreement passed to him ; ( 3 ) whether the agreement is a regulated agreement and , if it is not a regulated agreement , the reason why ; ( 4 ) the place where the agreement was signed by the debtor ( if known ) ; ( 5 ) the goods claimed ; ( 6 ) the total price of the goods ; ( 7 ) the paid-up sum ; ( 8 ) the unpaid balance of the total price ; ( 9 ) whether a default notice or a notice under s 76(1) or s 98(1) of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 has been served on the debtor and if it has , the date on which and the manner in which it was so served ; ( 10 ) the date when the right to demand delivery of the goods accrued ; ( 11 ) the amount ( if any ) claimed as an alternative to the delivery of the goods ; and ( 12 ) the amount ( if any ) claimed in addition to the delivery of the goods or any claim under sub-paragraph ( 10 ) , stating the cause of action in respect of which each such claim is made .
18 The lion's-share of these funds ECU3.5 million has been spent on the Parthenon and the Athens acropolis , mainly reassembling and consolidating stonework .
19 The called up share capital disclosed in the Balance Sheet fro the group at 31st March 1990 has been presented on the basis that the 1,320,000 ordinary shares of 25p each issued on the merger with Model Manufacturing Ltd had been in issue at 31st March 1990 .
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