Example sentences of "[noun sg] has been [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The neutralisation technique has been validated by double blind randomised trials , including food trials showing its effectiveness in preventing symptoms.Studies that failed to show effects evaluated the provocation of symptoms by food extracts ( not part of the standard technique ) ; that cited by Kay was also faulty in many respects and gave a wrong definition of the end point . |
| 2 | A simple hydraulic fracturing technique has been applied to ten boreholes in the Masvingo area of Zimbabwe , in which there many low-yielding tube-wells . |
| 3 | Although this waveform detection technique has been discussed with particular reference to a three.phase variable.reluctance motor , it should be apparent that the method can be applied to any motor in which the motional voltage influences the current waveform . |
| 4 | That technique has been considered by many interested in waste management , because it achieves considerably higher volumes of reduction than incineration , and seems to offer good prospects for even better pollution control standards . |
| 5 | A computer retailer has been operating for three years under the name of " COMPUTER EQUIPMENT SALES " and has a chain of stores in the South of England . |
| 6 | Because income support was introduced at a time when there would otherwise have been an increase in supplementary benefits , and because transitional protection has been provided for some groups of claimants who have been transferred to income support , the Government claims that relatively few people suffered an actual cut in benefit in April 1988 . |
| 7 | At the extreme right of the picture the top of the Citicorp Building has been spun through 180 degrees . |
| 8 | The main interest of this church is in its interior mosaics because much of the building has been altered in later times . |
| 9 | Public sector housing , housing associations , building has been cut by two thirds . |
| 10 | The question of spare land is the subject of a study by the British Library Board into what the British library 's needs will be after the new St. Pancras building has been opened in 1996 and how needs may be satisfied . |
| 11 | In recent years , moreover , a growing proportion of total grant has been contributed by specific grants ( 17.6 per cent in England , 1981 /2 ; 25.6 per cent in 1987/8 ) , which — being tied , unlike block grant , to specific services — leave authorities with less discretion to determine spending priorities . |
| 12 | This year the grant has been frozen at last year 's level , with no uprating for inflation . |
| 13 | Their grant has been frozen in real terms at much below the level at which they could expect to survive on it ; they have been denied entitlement to income support , housing benefits and rebates ; there are no jobs with which they can supplement their incomes during vacations ; and those who find themselves desperately hard up discover , when they turn to the hardship fund , that it has already been exhausted . |
| 14 | This is the first time that a photographer has been recognised in this way . |
| 15 | This is the first time that a photographer has been recognised in this way . |
| 16 | Sounds as if the guy is suffering from Hemingway Syndrome : ‘ computers may see their silicon lives flash before their eyes , so to speak , just before they die , ’ Prodigy Services Co suggests , reporting that physicist Stephen Thaler of McDonnell Douglas Corp has been playing with neural networks as a way to speed diamond crystal growth but while by day , he created and trained the neural nets , by night , he began annihilating them to see what would happen , randomly severing links , and when between 10% and 60% of the links were destroyed , the network regurgitated nonsense , but as it approached death , 90% of the connections severed , it generated distinct values that had been trained into it , and at times even output ‘ whimsical ’ states , where it would generate values that were neither trained nor ones that would appear in a healthy net , says Thaler , who thinks it may say something about near-death experiences for humans — ‘ It may not just be fancy biochemistry , ’ he suggests . |
| 17 | Traditionally , however , videoconferencing has been associated with huge multinationals , permanent videoconferencing suites equipped like television studios and expensive dedicated broadband or satellite links . |
| 18 | Bird-watching has been used by many researchers to study children 's behaviour . |
| 19 | Further evidence suggesting a positive link has been demonstrated in other cross-sectional studies ( New et al , 1963 ; Ahuja et al , 1969 ; Santen et al , 1972 ; Albrink , 1974 ; Lamda et al , 1974 ; Reckless et al , 1978 ; Seviour et al , 1985 ) . |
| 20 | Once an interaction has been found in one of the effects in a table such as figure 13.10 , it will also be found in the other . |
| 21 | A press release from Fender Musical Instruments Corporation informs us that a settlement has been reached during preliminary legal proceedings against G&L Music Sales for ‘ direct infringement ’ in the use of the Fender name and trademarks . |
| 22 | Hair has been styled with Sculpting Wax from Clynol 's Salon Formula range . |
| 23 | Thick hair has been styled into this strong shape by Norman Ellis at Options |
| 24 | Very long hair has been twisted into this great shape for evening . |
| 25 | Planning permission has been granted for two ground-floor shops and 16 flats in three adjoining buildings in Church Street , Hartlepool . |
| 26 | It also reminds Beijing that permission has been refused for local protesters to erect a replica Statue of Democracy on a permanent site . |
| 27 | Special provision has been made for handicapped access , and in addition the museum now boasts an auditorium , and greater accessibility to the reserve collections . |
| 28 | Imaginative provision has been made for wheelchair-bound bird watchers at the Rutland Water Nature Reserve . |
| 29 | The majority of delegations have nevertheless said they are in favour of including such consequences within the scope of the law of contracts , but in order to take account of the opposition expressed provision has been made for any contracting state to enter a reservation on this matter : article 22(1) ( b ) . |
| 30 | Management considers that adequate provision has been made for any liability which may arise in respect of the years 1981 to 1983 . |