Example sentences of "[adv] been [vb pp] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 3.9 It has of course long been recognised that a person who suffers an identifiable psychiatric illness or psychological condition , often referred to as nervous shock , can be awarded damages without the necessity of showing direct impact or fear of immediate physical injuries for himself where another dies or suffers personal injury . |
| 2 | It has long been recognized that a variety of structural divisions have generated more or less distinct cultures and sub-cultures , whether based on class divisions , age , gender or religion . |
| 3 | It has long been established that a defendant may be required to discover documents under his control but situated abroad ; in the early cases , the fact that relevant documents were in Calcutta or in Tobago led merely to an extension in the time allowed for their production . |
| 4 | The mines have long been closed but a relic survives in a blacksmith 's forge behind the crumbled walls . |
| 5 | However , the Attorney-General warned your Lordships that , even if reference in this case to Parliamentary materials did not infringe article 9 , the House of Commons might take the view the House enjoyed some wider privilege which we would be infringing and might well regret that its views on the point had not been sought before a decision was reached by your Lordships . |
| 6 | The reasons why cereal based ORS have been so successful has not been examined but a number of possible mechanisms have been proposed including increased substrate availability without increased osmolality , kinetic advantage of oligosaccharides over glucose monomers , and low osmolality . |
| 7 | Police said other stations had not been evacuated because a warning call from the terrorists had been too vague . |
| 8 | man Alan Reid said they had not been disciplined because a member of the Royal Family had been a patient there . |
| 9 | I repeat that , at this stage , Mr. Speaker 's Office has not been informed that a Minister wants to make a statement . |
| 10 | It has already been noted that a criterion statement such as " can add two whole numbers summing to between 100 and 1,000 " does not refer to a precise domain . |
| 11 | According to some reports approximately 9,000 suspected Islamic activists or sympathizers had already been arrested since a state of emergency was imposed in February [ see pp. 38790-91 ] . |
| 12 | It has always been acknowledged that a system of private property ownership confers upon the owners of property private economic ( and perhaps political and social ) power . |
| 13 | In this respect gonorrhoea differs from the majority of other bacterial infections , for which it has always been assumed that a course of treatment lasting several days or even weeks is needed . |
| 14 | Rarely has it ever been recorded that a fatality has occurred from snakebite during the festival ; the Cobras appear to know that they are being revered . |
| 15 | A trace of CO had also been detected and a trace of water with a column mass of about 0.01 kg/m 2 . |
| 16 | It has also been argued that a reliance on external inspection alone removes from teachers the responsibility to evaluate their own work . |
| 17 | It has also been argued that a lifting of the exemption could induce spiteful and malicious allegations by wives , particularly where divorce proceedings were involved . |
| 18 | It has also been held that a taxpayer would have standing to challenge the legality of an Order in Council authorizing the payment of public money to the European Community ; and that a television licence-holder has standing in respect of alleged breach by the IBA ( the predecessor of the Independent Television Commission ) of its responsibility to monitor programmes . |
| 19 | The first phase of the Trust 's Environmental Audit , announced in the summer 1990 issue of the magazine , has now been completed and a programme has been approved which should result in the principles of environmental protection being more firmly entrenched in the Trust 's activities . |
| 20 | This door had now been opened and a man stood therein , staring . |
| 21 | In biological writing it has often been said that a character is advantageous or detrimental to a species . |
| 22 | It is irrelevant that , so far as the employees are concerned , they are working in the same premises with the same equipment and on the same job as before the sale and perhaps have not even been informed that a sale has taken place ( Woodhouse v Peter Brotherhood Ltd [ 1972 ] 2 QB 520 ; Woodcock v Committee for the Time Being of the Friends School Wigton and Genwise Ltd [ 1987 ] IRLR 98 , CA ) . |
| 23 | It has even been speculated that a community which has grown up around a manufacturing plant may have a claim for compensation against the owners , if the latter decide to close the plant , in order to compensate for the diminution of land values and the destruction of the local economy . |
| 24 | This is a relatively small volcano , and so easily accessible that it has even been suggested that a hotel should be built beneath it , to make an especially attractive night spot for jaded Guatemalans , but so far no one has risked the capital . |
| 25 | It has even been suggested that a member could exercise control with as little as one per cent of the votes . |
| 26 | There were Greek mercenaries in the Egyptian army of Necho son of Psammetzchus who killed Josiah — allegedly at Megiddo — in 608 B.C. There were thirty thousand Greeks , according to Herodotus , in the army of Necho 's grandson Apries who tried to relieve Babylonian pressure on Palestine in 588 ( Jerem. 37.5 ) and probably precipitated the final onslaught of Nebuchadnezzar on Jerusalem in 586 B.C. It has even been suggested that a king of Judah had Greek mercenaries . |
| 27 | It has even been suggested that a lobe of liver might be removed , disaggregated , treated with the gene in vitro , and then ‘ re-seeded ’ into the hepatic vessels from whence it will repopulate the regenerating liver . |
| 28 | To take one example : it has frequently been said that a child 's attachment to his mother develops out of his physical dependence on her . |
| 29 | Three quarters said they had n't been consulted before a caution was given , and sixty two percent of our sample thought offenders should only be entitled to one caution no matter whether the crime was committed by an adult or juvenile . |
| 30 | Children 's entertainment has n't been forgotten and a child 's fair , including mechanical rides , swings and a roundabout will also be operating on the site . |