Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | However , as with education , the impact of change has been limited by a lack of a corresponding expansion of the job market . |
| 32 | Her closer engagement with concrete social change has been accompanied by a rapprochement with the conventions of science fiction . |
| 33 | British Bio-technology 's laboratory products division has been incorporated into a wholly-owned subsidiary of British Bio-technology Group . |
| 34 | The wider field of responsibility has been rewarded by a variety of means . |
| 35 | Such a payment has been treated as a gift : see Maskell v. Horner [ 1915 ] 3 K.B . |
| 36 | Er , the the the er er the fax in the first instance has been sent by a back bench member of this house who is not a minister , but I may tell the honourable gentleman that I get all sorts of things from mail shots inviting me to all er manner of functions , all of which find their way into the waste paper basket . |
| 37 | This tactical defence has been weakened by a ruling made recently in another case , where the Guggenheim Museum was seeking the return of a stolen Chagall painting from a private collector . |
| 38 | The defence has been considered in a number of recent cases in which it has been held that it is to be applied in a flexible and pragmatic way . |
| 39 | ‘ Defence has been perfected to a remarkable degree , ’ he said , ‘ and I have heard it suggested that through its further development football may be brought to a state of stalemate … it will be a sorry reflection on forwards if they have not the intelligence , the inventiveness to devise means by which they can carry their attack to a successful end . ’ |
| 40 | Funding has been obtained for a vocational exchange between catering students from Telford and Lyon in France . |
| 41 | EC ERASMUS funding has been obtained for a teaching visit to l'Universite Paul Valery , Montpellier in 1990 . |
| 42 | A WARNING that the Church of Scotland 's parish structure could collapse in the face of threatened cuts in funding has been made in a report to go to the General Assembly in May . |
| 43 | ‘ Seed ’ sponsored ( a subset of the champion stage ) designates that funding has been provided by a department as a clear budgeted line-item . |
| 44 | It would seem that the direction in which it will be refined is to move towards a system more or less completely based on unit costs , or common funding , and that the element of further funding has been included as a temporary measure to allow high cost institutions to adjust to the new system . |
| 45 | The little heart has been put in a square frame , as any other shape would leave too much background space around the heart that would have to be filled . |
| 46 | Braverman 's radical analysis of work organisation at the operational level has been extended by a number of writers concerned to explore its implications for these wider organisational issues . |
| 47 | To justify a treatment of women which denies their autonomy , resort has been had to a ragbag of ideas about female and male sexuality , varying from the bogus to the irrelevant and culled formerly from medicine and latterly from psychoanalysis . |
| 48 | The Vocational Access Certificate has been designed as a preliminary vocational qualification for those with special training needs . |
| 49 | The algorithm has been implemented in a program called probeorder . |
| 50 | Where on an arbitration an award has been made against a party in his absence , the award can be set aside , but , in this instance , by the arbitrator only ( Ord 19 , r 5(2) ( Term 6 ) ) . |
| 51 | The in-can system , for which we hold the patent , won The Queen 's Award for Technological Achievement in 1991 — the first time that this award has been given to a brewer . |
| 52 | A BNFL sponsored conservation award has been won by a company which used extensive landscaping and environmental work in developing a former RAF site . |
| 53 | Traditionally , those with 25 service have been presented with inscribed watches , but for the first time the 40 year award has been introduced with a choice of either a canteen of cutlery or a set of crystal glasses and decanter as a gift from the company . |
| 54 | Dury 's reputation as something of a hellraiser has been sustained by a couple of recent incidents : what he describes as his ‘ bit of bother at the opera ’ ( a minor fracas enthusiastically reported by the tabloid newspapers ) and an appearance on Nicky Campbell 's Radio 1 show , when Dury , who had dined well before going on air , spoke with unusual frankness on a number of subjects . |
| 55 | The French parliament has been presented with a white paper from Environment Minister , Brice Lalonde , containing measures designed to bring France 's environmental performance up to par with Europe 's " greener " countries . |
| 56 | In modern times , this has culminated in the emergence of the ‘ Servile State ’ in which the state is viewed as a corporate productive enterprise , Parliament has been reduced to a market in which private interests clamour for awards , and civil law has been displaced by the administration of instrumental rules and orders . |
| 57 | We are to leave immediately — the base has been penetrated by a force of United States Marines . ’ |
| 58 | A £400 three-feet high ornament with a concrete base has been stolen from a front garden in Blackwell Grove , Darlington . |
| 59 | The route has been planned for a 25 mile ride through the East Hampshire countryside starting and finishing at the Bohunt Centre , with plenty of refreshment stops on the way . |
| 60 | This route has been earmarked for a possible future extension of the Midland Metro light rail transit system . |