Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very existence of Article 23 was regarded as indicating that the Convention was not mandatory , on the rather tortuous argument that if the Convention had been intended to replace the broad discovery powers previously exercised by the United States , acceptance of Article 23 ( which enables other States to refuse to operate the Convention in this area ) ‘ would have been most anomalous ’ . |
| 2 | It had been intended to number the main service 109B and 109W , for Blackfriars and Westminster respectively , as had been done in the case of the Wimbledon services , but there was a change in heart at the last minute and the buses were delivered with blinds numbered 109 only . |
| 3 | A significant detail is the forked ends of the severed heads which may have been intended to suggest the immediate growth of two replacements , as in the classical version of the myth . |
| 4 | Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens claimed the recordings might have been leaked to blacken the Royal Family and warned that ‘ evil forces ’ could be at work . |
| 5 | Furthermore , if investment has been undertaken to improve the competitive position , then it may be desirable , during the manager 's stay in the SBU , to assess the likely performance of that investment by reference to early signals of a change in the competitive position . |
| 6 | A feasibility study has been undertaken to determine the future development strategy for the BGS deep-tow boomer and plans are now being developed to enhance the performance and flexibility of the system . |
| 7 | Never think that April is not a good month for skiing , as it has repeatedly been proven to have the best snow . |
| 8 | The presentation of comparative figures has been adjusted to reflect the new standard . |
| 9 | The residuals from the fitted line can be thought of as values for a variable which have been adjusted to take the explanatory variable into account . |
| 10 | It is the aim of this study to investigate the determinants of unemployment and the behaviour of wages and prices in interwar Britain , using as a starting point models which have been developed to analyse the current unemployment problem . |
| 11 | Advanced computer modelling techniques have been developed to simulate the refining process . |
| 12 | Three tests have been developed to estimate the risk-adjusted performance of portfolios : |
| 13 | In addition to pioneering ‘ green ’ techniques in areas such as pest control , a number of new businesses have been developed to meet the increasing concern for the environment . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , he did feel that Coastal had a strong claim to the latest 3cm version which could well have been made available to assist with the war at sea if large resources had not been diverted to equip the Main Farce of Bomber Command . |
| 15 | A new lobby group ‘ Freight on Rail ’ has been formed to promote the successful transition of the Railfreight industry into the private sector . |
| 16 | Once the political crisis of December 1916 had been weathered and a government had been formed to pursue the Unionist war policy , and with Law himself entrenched at its centre , Unionist support for both Law and for the government remained until the war 's end . |
| 17 | Accordingly instead of serving the economic function for which they were originally advocated they have been modified to serve the political function of reducing the number of unemployed whilst minimizing intervention in the economy as a whole . |
| 18 | To test this possibility a cross-hole seismic tomography experiment has been designed , and equipment has been modified to suit the local geology where attenuation in the fractured basement aquifer is expected to be high . |
| 19 | And since nineteen eighty eight it 's been permitted to name the alleged rapist . |
| 20 | Containers : Where ponds have been installed using the preformed type of pool or the use of a flexible liner , the easiest and most convenient way to plant waterlilies is to use the specially-designed baskets made of strong plastic . |
| 21 | Mr Wolfgang Berghofer , the 46-year-old mayor of Dresden who had been tipped to become the new party chief , said yesterday that he and a renewed party stood for a break with Stalinism and instead wanted socialism with a human face . |
| 22 | Vessels from the cemeteries in north-east England , Baston and Elsham ( Lincolnshire ) , and Sancton ( East Yorkshire ) were found to have fabrics specific to the respective cemeteries , although they had been decorated using the same set of dies . |
| 23 | Within the small towns , apparently independent bath-houses are more common than might have been expected given the general level of amenity provision ( fig. 5 D–H ) . |
| 24 | Such an action would have been expected to lower the cyclic AMP content irrespective of the agonist used to stimulate the cells . |
| 25 | These three modules have been designed to assess the final core skill : problem solving . |
| 26 | It has been designed to streamline the nitty-gritty business of balancing accuracy against available resistor values , tolerances and cost . |
| 27 | Here the old belief that Nature tended to develop inevitably towards a predictable goal resurfaced in one of the newest branches of science , which had been designed to replace the old approach to natural history . |
| 28 | It has been designed to complement the in-house training programme already provided by Greene King . |
| 29 | The courses have all been designed to provide the basic knowledge and skills needed to cope with the rapid developments which are met by professional engineers , along with essential practical and design skills . |
| 30 | The offensive had also been designed to influence the current round of peace talks between the government and the FMLN which took place in the Mexican city of Queratato on July 9-11 . |