Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | More recently a string of no less than thirty cylinder seals made of lapis lazuli has been recovered from a Mycenaean house at Thebes . |
| 2 | One of the most important finds of late Roman gold and silver coins and objects has been located by a local man , retired gardener Eric Lawes , with a metal detector in a field in Suffolk . |
| 3 | Many possible measures might be used ( Brown and Yule , 1983 ) , but following Garvey 's lead with younger children ( Garvey , 1979 ) , the distribution and pattern of clarification requests has been used as a starting point . |
| 4 | Chomsky 's claim that the young child is exposed to degenerate samples of language which distort the relationship between surface forms and meanings has been challenged by a considerable amount of recent research . |
| 5 | The automatic recognition of word meanings has been demonstrated in a number of experimental investigations . |
| 6 | The need for developing countries to generate export surpluses to service their debts has been identified as a major cause of environmentally destructive policies such as exploitation of the rainforests . |
| 7 | Information that was previously printed in the annual booklet of regulations , syllabuses and timetables has been split into a number of sections for 1993 . |
| 8 | Information that was previously printed in the annual booklet of regulations , syllabuses and timetables has been split into a number of sections for 1993 . |
| 9 | One can imagine how severe the reprimand will be for the officer whose disregard of the rules has been decorated with a successful conviction . |
| 10 | The reliability and clinical applications of computerised image analysis measurement of bowel uptake of Tc-99m HMPAO labelled leucocytes has been examined as a measure of disease activity in Crohn 's disease . |
| 11 | The decay of Britain 's roads has been reflected in a sharp increase in central government 's spending on road maintenance . |
| 12 | Thus it is suggested that a hierarchy of social groups has been replaced by a hierarchy of individuals . |
| 13 | The homogeneity of the three groups has been reported for a wide variety of preoperative variables including age , sex , type of fluid , allergy , seasonal variation , radiographic determination of the size of the adenoids and postnasal space , and duration of preoperative loss of hearing . |
| 14 | The use of the microcomputer for information retrieval and information use in schools has been neglected as a review of books on microcomputers in schools will show . |
| 15 | A CHARITY which takes deprived children on camping trips has been helped by a Middlesbrough hotel . |
| 16 | Global co-operation between oil exporters and importers has been suggested as a means of averting a re-occurrence of the oil market cycle of the 1970s . |
| 17 | An offer should only be announced once an irrevocable commitment to provide the necessary funds has been received from a person upon whom reliance can reasonably be placed at that time ( see Panel Notice 1991/4 of 1 May 1991 in relation to Luirc Corp and Merlin International Properties Ltd ) . |
| 18 | Another very successful collection of my pictures has been made by a lady who is very keen on yellow roses . |
| 19 | In the USA , NAEP 's use of conventional school subjects has been seen as a conservative influence , and the reduction to the 3Rs makes the backwash effect even more acute . |
| 20 | ONE of the principal components of the German question , and of the entire European situation , is the recognition of the fact that the question of European borders has been solved in a definitive and irrevocable manner . |
| 21 | We like to think that the arrangement of books has been brought to a fine art , so it was good to hear the verdict of Evening News reporter Bob Watt that there was ‘ bookshop tranquillity ’ and that you could ‘ feel the order . ’ |
| 22 | The toxic nature of some animals has been known for a long time and man has utilised their venoms and poisons for various purposes . |
| 23 | At the top of the house , one of the remaining two bedrooms has been turned into a studio where Geoff spends many hours playing music . |
| 24 | A complex of outhouses and stables has been converted into a series of self-contained flats , with a total of 21 bedrooms , four halls , 12 bathrooms and six kitchens . |
| 25 | In the period 1 January 1988 to 30 June 1991 , 2 , 370 in-patient discharges were admitted as emergencies having been assaulted by a cutting or piercing instrument . |
| 26 | A belief in Chinese superiority stemming from a closer approximation to the natural order of the cosmos governed China 's relations with neighbouring peoples , which over centuries had been conducted on a tributary basis . |
| 27 | Several ornaments from a displayed collection of unpleasant little figurines had been swept off a small table . |
| 28 | One of the large bedrooms had been turned into a nursery and it seemed to hold every conceivable toy a child could have . |
| 29 | On returning to Cyprus that spring , he found that the march of technology had continued in his absence and that all the CpFNS field offices had been hooked into a central computerized database installed by Link Systems , Ltd , a US government ‘ cut-out ’ company set up to carry out the contract for UNFDAC . |
| 30 | Food would be marked with a " P " to indicate that pesticides had been used on a product . |