Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [been] [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of that public sector support has been designed also to attract investment from private enterprise . |
| 2 | A £500,000 budget has been set aside to create a press office to represent him in Brussels , in addition to Dublin 's existing one . |
| 3 | The department has been forced recently to increase its prices but will continue to offer its services to the Governing Bodies of Sport at a heavily subsidised rate , well below that of competitive commercial rates . |
| 4 | In the light of the misunderstandings and bitterness which can affect all the parties involved in an industrial dispute , it is perhaps regrettable that no attempt has been made adequately to define the legal rights of workers involved in such disputes . |
| 5 | Having heard T W Ltd 's further representations seeking extended hours for their haulage operations , the DLA confirmed that the conditions attaching to the licence renewal had been imposed solely to prevent local residents having their sleep disturbed at unsocial hours . |
| 6 | In every case that I have examined , the police were involved at a very early stage , before any serious attempt had been made either to assess the reliability of the allegation or to give the accused teacher a chance of refuting it . |
| 7 | The son , apparently , claimed that the partnership had been formed expressly to prevent this happening . |
| 8 | Not every thane had been left behind to act as a watchdog . |
| 9 | ‘ The plan has been put together to enable London Zoo to move forward in practical , achievable stages and represents the relaunch of this great London landmark . ’ |
| 10 | The T x column has been included merely to help explain the calculation of e x ; it represents the total ‘ robin-years ’ of life remaining for all of the original cohort that have reached age x . |
| 11 | An in vitro transcription assay has been used previously to probe a variety of drug-DNA interactions ( 10 ) and has been utilised for bidirectional transcription footprinting of drug sites on DNA ( 11,12 ) . |
| 12 | Leicestershire enter the table , and might have qualified last year if an adjustment had been made then to bring their figures into line with practices adopted by all the other counties . |
| 13 | Regency stripe , classical motifs and rich wood have been used here to achieve a formal style that is also very natural . |
| 14 | At least two attempts have been made to specify the terms of reference of the panel , and on at least two occasions the membership has been reviewed specifically to bring in more active participants and give more clear direction to its efforts . |
| 15 | Can he therefore confirm that either the Secretary of State has breached the security rules or that the excuse of national security has been used merely to cover the fact that the Government made the decisions on political rather than on military grounds ? |
| 16 | Now , one gets the feeling that some of Cronenberg 's gloopy vigour has been wiped away to provide acceptable international art-house fodder . |
| 17 | A steering group had been brought together to advise and support the development of the project , but all the members were non-disabled professionals from a number of organisations including social services departments , the health authority and voluntary organisations . |
| 18 | If the charge had been framed merely to intimidate , when it failed to do so , the octopus would presumably try something else . |
| 19 | Recent advances in knowledge of thrust belts based on seismic and drilling have been made easier to apply to frontier areas by published descriptions of typical geometries , improved understanding of the mechanisms involved , and the establishment of standard terminology ( see , for instance : Hossack 1979 ; Berger and Johnson 1982 ; Butler 1982 ; Boyer and Elliot 1982 ) . |
| 20 | The closer one can get to reality , the easier the learning by the student , provided that the necessary knowledge has been given previously to facilitate comprehension . |
| 21 | This procedure has been used extensively to analyse the CAAT repeat region from several different lic loci derived from a variety of H.influenzae strains and has proved to be highly reproducible . |
| 22 | A comma has been used here to separate the two distinct impressions , but some might think it unnecessary even there . |
| 23 | In South Africa under apartheid , education has been designed specifically to socialize the mass of the population into accepting an inferiority based on race and class . |
| 24 | More recently , however , such theories have been extensively criticized ; the concept of development has been broadened again to take account of social and cultural , as well as economic , features ; and more attention has been given to development as a world-wide process in which there is a close interrelationship between events in different regions . |
| 25 | Without going into detailed calculations which readers can obtain for themselves , the concept has been introduced here to provide a clear distinction between internal operating efficiency and action on relative prices . |
| 26 | The singing is always very fine and full bodied , although I feel that the chance has been missed occasionally to drop the dynamic level to the point where hairs are raised . |
| 27 | Many of the disciplines of contemplation have been designed precisely to wean the mind and head away from these earth-bound modes of perception to help them to discover another kind of experience , which they call ‘ spiritual ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ We ca n't have him dying of thirst before his flesh has been mortified enough to appease the Dark Ones , ’ said Wiggs . |
| 29 | The New Survey of London Life and Labour agreed with this assessment and reported that whereas in the 1880s homework had been done primarily to supplement wages , in the 1930s women tended to work in order to buy extras , reflecting the greater regularity of men 's employment , together with a more efficient social security system for the families of the unemployed . |
| 30 | The notion of response competition has been used here to provide a framework for an intervention . |