Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | The reader is reminded that all that has been written so far has been dealing with the First and Second Periods into which the development of the Created God has been divided . |
2 | The manufacturers of this cloth , which has been developed fairly recently list among its advantages flexibility and an effectiveness higher than granulated charcoal , recommending it be used to eliminate obnoxious gases and odours in industry and from restaurants , food processing plants and homes . |
3 | Interestingly , the place where this question has been raised most insistently has not been in the GATT or in Brussels , but in the American courts . |
4 | The main considerations in deciding whether to release such a prisoner are whether he or she has been detained long enough to satisfy the requirements of retribution and deterrence for the offence and whether the potential risk to the public is judged to be acceptable . |
5 | All that has been said so far has , of course , been at the level of advocacy . |
6 | 2.28 Most of what has been said so far has related to the loss of the principal breadwinner of the dependants . |
7 | All that has been said so far applies to hypertext systems , but there are important differences that may affect needs . |
8 | One Treasury review ( 1985 , p. 19 ) candidly admitted , ‘ What has been achieved so far amounts to an impressive array of intermediate indicators … there are , as yet , relatively few links … between inputs and outputs which show managers how changes in resources and priorities can lead to changes in output … |
9 | I think it clear , and indeed the Home Office Circular of 1930 explicitly states ( page 4 ) , that it is in order to secure this aim , and in recognition of the fact that a person in custody is in a specially vulnerable position , and hence particularly at a disadvantage in responding to questions in a balanced and measured way , that it has been thought safer both to prohibit questioning after a certain point , and to exclude from evidence answers given to such questioning . |
10 | CINEMA outside Hollywood used to come in national waves , but no longer : China has been silenced for a while , and the work emerging out of Africa has been distributed too sporadically to seem like a movement . |
11 | The approach to finding exact solutions that has been taken so far has involved initially solving the field equations in the interaction region IV and then investigating the conditions under which these solutions can be considered as the result of collisions of plane waves . |
12 | It has been used twice before to kill , and each time a single shot was fired . |
13 | Having the crust to attempt a poem in 100 or 120 cantos long after all mankind has been commanded never again to attempt a poem of any length , I have to stagger as I can . |
14 | For the untrained , keeping tabs on this type of equipment , both technically and administratively , can be difficult , but Powersafe has been set up specifically to manage the inspection and testing of electrical installations and equipment used in industry , commerce and public utilities . |
15 | Any present-day fan will be familiar with the Botham story , for it has been told too often to need repeating . |
16 | The full clinical relevance of this reduction in IQ has been appreciated only recently following the reports of a steady rise of mean IQ scores in the general populations of Western nations , including the United Kingdom . |
17 | The first is a recognition that much of what has been described above already exists , but needs to be made explicit and systematic ; and secondly , there must be a recognition that partial attempts to change are almost inevitably doomed to fail in that they will always be compromised and administered by the history and culture of many schools . |
18 | Despite the fact that homoeopathy has now been around for close on two hundred years , very little research has been carried out either to attempt to understand how it works , or to prove that it does work . |
19 | A SWOT analysis which has been carried out correctly provides a creative , forward-looking review which provides a balanced basis for considering possible future strategies . |
20 | I think they were surprised when I threw up ; I hope they were , I hope they were surprised and very interested and thought , 'Ullo 'ullo 'ullo it was n't 'im then after all ; he ai n't the villain , he 's been fitted up so help me … |
21 | Er I would , I would echo that , that we feel that they money has been paid in for work or services done by the employer and by the er fund members themselves have contributed and I do n't think it belongs to either of those parties in any more , it 's held by the trustees to pay pensions , if for nothing it 's been put there just to pay pensions , it 's not a piggy bank for er for companies to draw out with the with their tame er trustees allowing it , it it 's money the trustees hold in in trust and I believe that 's the law at the moment and er I I think we would like to see that confirmed in any new law . |
22 | The centre 's been set up specially to help people like Anita . |