Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [vb pp] [conj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In reactors where there is a little organic matter , the fission products are trapped on clay minerals , but these have been less effective than bitumen — about 30 per cent of the ND has been lost and other lanthanides have migrated away from the core . |
| 2 | Question 1 of the additional questions will reveal whether or not the road has been adopted and all charges paid . |
| 3 | It has been observed that Christian fortresses in Syria on numerous occasions failed to act as any sort of check on the movement of Muslim armies . |
| 4 | The sustainable yield from the fishery by these methods , which have little effect on other fish species , and no significant effect on dolphins , turtles , or sea birds , has been calculated as 45,000 tonnes per year — 35,000 tonnes of adult fish taken by longlines , and 10,000 juveniles , taken by trolling . |
| 5 | These include the purposes for which the product has been manufactured and any instructions or warnings with respect to doing or refraining from doing anything in relation to the product . |
| 6 | The question has been raised whether these changes result in restoration of the duodenal mucosa and disappearance of gastric epithelium from the duodenal bulb . |
| 7 | Geoffrey Ross comments ‘ It has been noticed that many men wash their hair in water that is too hot ( which over-stimulates the sebaceous glands and so makes the scalp greasier than it should be ) and are rough-actioned with the towel when drying the hair . |
| 8 | Nevertheless an important start has been made and some students are being exposed to a segment of African literature . |
| 9 | The importance of situational analysis as a preliminary to curriculum design has been recognised , investment has been made and important questions are being asked . |
| 10 | The distance has been given as 4500 light-years , but may be as much as 7000 , in which case it must be more than a million times as luminous as the Sun . |
| 11 | But none of these claims has been substantiated and some preparations may actually be dangerous . |
| 12 | More generally , it has been contended that international comparisons can be a trap : |
| 13 | For some time it has been suspected that these voltages affect aquarium fish , causing stress and possibly disease . |
| 14 | It has been argued that catholic schools do not do the job for which they were set up , that is educate Roman catholics sufficiently to keep them in the church . |
| 15 | Not only is there a lack of research evidence to support this view , but it has been argued that many children do better remaining in a single-parent family than in having to make further adjustments to a third form of family life — the step-family ( Richards and Dyson , 1982 ) . |
| 16 | Whilst it has been argued that such firms need financial and general business aid , if they are to fulfil their potential on a timely basis , little is known of their accounting/financial practices and needs . |
| 17 | It has been argued that such courses come somewhere around the foundation or specific stage in most people 's educational development , although the increasing proportions of mature students must make us wary of too linear a model . |
| 18 | However , it has been argued that certain clauses operate at an earlier stage so as to define and restrict the extent of the contractual obligation undertaken and so prevent there being any breach of contract . |
| 19 | It has been argued that double-hulled vessels can be more hazardous in high-speed collisions than single-hulled vessels . |
| 20 | It has been argued that these policies were adopted at Moscow 's instigation . |
| 21 | It has been argued that these divisions within the working class are unreconcilable and prevent it acting as a strong , united , radical force . |
| 22 | Technical difficulties aside , it has been argued that these provisions will not make any appreciable difference to the welfare of victims for , except in the most notorious of cases , most authors receive very small amounts indeed from publication . |
| 23 | And it has been said that local authorities are not always very sympathetic to acting as a choice of career and sometimes obtaining a grant may be more difficult if a student has evidently changed his or her career tack . |
| 24 | It has been said that few revolutions have been so complete in the British countryside as the start and end of the railway age . |
| 25 | It has been said that these rules will be applied less stringently to a commercial contract than to other types of document ( Henry Boot Construction v Central Lancashire New Town Development Corpn ( 1980 ) 15 BLR 8 ) but the drafter should bear them in mind and , if possible , avoid their application . |
| 26 | As it has been assumed that equal amounts of lactulose or other carbohydrate malabsorption will produce equal changes in breath H 2 excretion , rice starch malabsorption has been calculated as g malabsorbed carbohydrate according to the formula : |
| 27 | Until now it has been assumed that social changes are determined by events which have the same status in the sense that they may all be conditions and consequences of each other . |
| 28 | Whilst it has been assumed that these charges were fabricated by Musgrave ( and perhaps by Thomas Cromwell , q.v. ) , there is evidence to suggest that Dacre did indeed have private arrangements with the Scots which served to divert their raids away from his estates and on to Bewcastle . |
| 29 | ESA 's contribution to the US station has been withheld until concrete proposals emerge from the redesign ordered last month by US president , who instructed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) to scale down the station and cut its operational costs in half ( see Nature 361 , 195 ; 1993 ) . |
| 30 | Apparently complete abatement of the odour has been achieved and other nuisances such as flies and vermin caused by the burial of the waste eradicated . |