Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] been [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The southern icy continent has been yielding a harvest of strange meteorites |
| 32 | Coupled with regional policy instruments operating at EC level , the intention has been to create a level " playing field " within Europe , such that all member states can compete on an equal basis within the SEM . |
| 33 | Nevertheless , although it is easy to see why the thrust of the arguments has throughout been to concentrate on the charging of the suspect and ( in the light of Ex parte Saunders ) on the association of a renewed caution with any exercise of the Director 's powers where the person under interrogation has already been charged , I believe that the result has been to set the inquiry off in the wrong direction . |
| 34 | The result has been to generate a flood of good ideas — many of which have come from people working in market-oriented sectors . |
| 35 | Since few hereditary peers take their seats anyway , the result has been to tilt the balance in the House gradually from heredity to merit . |
| 36 | The result has been to produce a society of great institutional depth . |
| 37 | Glenlight Shipping , the company which operates puffers all-over the west coast has been awarded an extension to its tarriff reduction subsidy . |
| 38 | The first one relates to the child who broke into my car , I wo n't call him a child he 's a bloody toerag as far as I 'm concerned , who broke into my car has been given a caution , a bloody caution . |
| 39 | However , the article goes on , during the last decade , a United Nations Organization programme has been coordinating the work of environmentalists to halt the scale of pollution , although political will by individual governments is also essential if the fragile ecosystem is to be preserved . |
| 40 | Michaela has been given a minder since the Hacienda . |
| 41 | One of the best known names in football has been teaching a group of schoolchildren some of the skills which took him to the top of the game . |
| 42 | The role of CCG 's Safety and Training Department has been to analyse the information available : clarify the requirements and keep management , staff and clients up to date on developments . |
| 43 | In the three published surveys of research performance , the department has been given the top ( grade 5 ) rating . |
| 44 | Secondly , the presumption behind such an approach is that once the characterisation has been made the content of natural justice is fixed and certain : all administrative matters would be subject to the same rules , as would all judicial or quasi-judicial . |
| 45 | Unless some task-specific terminating condition has been specified the parser will automatically explore every possible pathway determined by the knowledge sources , the input , and the procedures for constructing extensions to interpretations . |
| 46 | What is required … is , firstly , that there should be a fair review by the employer of the attendance record and the reasons for it ; and , secondly , appropriate warnings , after the employee has been given an opportunity to make representations . |
| 47 | Once the appraisal has been evaluated the project should be selected and submitted for approval . |
| 48 | ‘ The effect has been to reinforce the concentration of unemployment in traditional inner city areas ’ , the Centre for Local Economic Strategies ( CLES ) reported in Local Work ( 1988 ) , ‘ and in the regions which were already suffering the worst unemployment before 1979 . ’ |
| 49 | The effect has been to deny the right of employers to a proper say in the educational process because their interest has been confined to recruitment after the event rather than as participants in provision . |
| 50 | While new technology has reduced the costs of entry into newspaper publishing , its main effect has been to improve the profitability of established press barons . |
| 51 | BELFAST 'S prestigious Castle Court complex has been given the all-clear by experts worried by bizarre glass explosions at modern buildings . |
| 52 | My purpose in this chapter has been to propose a model of language teaching and to show the interrelationship between its different elements . |
| 53 | One feature of the discussion in this chapter has been to challenge the use of the concepts of consistency and ‘ inexorable logic ’ as unanswerable standards of appraisal of the law . |
| 54 | My object in this chapter has been to provide a transition between ( i ) the analysis of economic class relations , in the sense of possession of and separation from the means of production , and the strategic opportunities for the socialist project connected with the current forms of these relations , and ( ii ) the politics of taking up these opportunities in modern Britain . |
| 55 | Since the intention of this chapter has been to provide an introduction to global tectonics and the major elements of the Earth 's morphology and structure , the suggested reading is mainly limited to texts which will be useful in providing more details on these topics . |
| 56 | WITH all the talk of recession was n't it great to read that at least one important institution has been given a reprieve . |
| 57 | a splendid initiative and it 's similar to the way in which the district council is now devolving responsibility for public toilets , and I 'm delighted that local government reorganization has been given a bit of stir that districts and county councils to get their acts together . |
| 58 | An application is an application for a renewal where it relates to premises in respect of which the applicant has been granted a licence which is due to expire and is for the same type of licence as that previously granted . |
| 59 | Declining gastric acid secretion has been considered a consequence of ageing but this view is being reconsidered as the importance of Helicobacter pylori infection to gastroduodenal function is recognised . |
| 60 | The National Child Development Study has been following the development of all the children born in Britain in the week 3–9 March , 1958 . |