Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [adv] been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Again this technique has also been used in a special probe .
2 The DNA technique has already been used to spectacular effect , even trapping a murderer .
3 There is a rapidly growing body of literature supporting the efficacy of MRI for evaluating patients with bone marrow malignancy , and the technique has already been shown to be highly sensitive for detecting bone marrow metastases even in the absence of abnormal pain radiographs , conventional computed tomograms and radionuclide studies .
4 The technique has never been used before and , if necessary , will be attempted again tomorrow .
5 The presence of replicative epithelial cells in the upper crypt has classically been shown with H-thymidine labelling , and more recently by an in vivo bromodeoxyuridine labelling technique .
6 Non-use has essentially been considered as a negative response to the catalogue and the library user has been held responsible for his own shortcomings .
7 Toshiba Corp has now been drawn into the IBM-Apple Computer Inc alliance following the announcement that it and Apple have an agreement to develop multimedia technology , combining Apple software skills with Toshiba 's expertise in semiconductors and consumer electronics .
8 Videoconferencing has always been touted as a major use for ISDN .
9 The lane has also been known as Thornton Street , when an inn — Thornton 's inn — was located there .
10 A practical link has thus been revealed between the Hellenistic tradition of mathematical gearing and the medieval Islamic .
11 This religious settlement has sometimes been described as a via media between Catholicism and Protestantism .
12 Support has frequently been provided in the form of specialised equipment and , in some subjects , visiting staff contribute to course teaching to provide an up-to-date industrial dimension .
13 His graphic story has just been published in the Darlington Postgraduate Journal , edited by doctors at Darlington Memorial Hospital where he was treated after his second stroke .
14 Instead , Sisson maintains that the real reason is that in Britain multi-employer bargaining has increasingly been found to be incapable of performing what employers regard as its major function , namely the neutralisation of the workplace from the activities of trade unions .
15 Normal market practice is for SCP to be issued on a non-interest bearing basis at a discount to its face value , although provision has also been made for it to bear a stated rate of interest .
16 Provision has also been included in the draft scheme for compensation to be paid to complainants in exceptional circumstances after loss or suffering .
17 And it was on that basis that they decided to go to the point near Sand Hutton where provision has now been made for them .
18 Progress in this direction has now been achieved for a diversity of world areas and requires ancillary information related to climatic change and , in turn , when sufficient information becomes available could contribute to the reconstruction of world patterns .
19 Champagne has long been used by the city institutions to woo clients .
20 Advantage has also been taken of this facility by Czechoslovakia .
21 The decision has since been applied in Department of the Environment v Thomas Bates & Son Ltd [ 1990 ] 2 All ER 943 .
22 moved and seconded must be accepted by the Chairman , unless it is frivolous or illegal , or covers the same ground as a motion on which a decision has already been taken in the same meeting .
23 Apple Computer Inc and Novell Inc have successfully completed their project to bring the Macintosh system to mainstream computing , but no decision has yet been made on a commercial follow-up : Novell chief financial officer James Tolonen says the companies wanted to see whether Macintosh System could run atop a different operating system and on a different chip , yet still maintain the user-friendly features of the Apple system .
24 Apple Computer Inc and Novell Inc have successfully completed their project to bring the Macintosh system to mainstream computing , but no decision has yet been made on a commercial follow-up , Novell chief financial officer James Tolonen told the Hambrecht & Quist conference .
25 But Alan Docherty , a transport officer with Darlington Borough Council , said no final decision has yet been taken regarding a location for new bus stops .
26 this decision has now been confirmed by the court of appeal .
27 ‘ I initially agreed to a meeting but that decision has now been put on hold , ’ he explained .
28 Given that the decision has now been taken by Parliament to extend the law to cover recordings , broadcasts and cable programmes , it may be wondered whether the exemption for these should have been automatically carried over into the new law .
29 Since March 1985 a full written decision has only been provided at the request of either party .
30 Significant acetate production as a result of H 2 dependent CO 2 reduction has also been reported in human faeces in the absence of methanogenesis .
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