Example sentences of "[noun pl] has been [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the community charge , the funding for local authorities has been increased by 6.1 per cent . |
| 2 | The measures , including the abolition of petroleum revenue tax , on new oil and gas projects has been welcomed by British Petroleum which said that the changes should encourage investment in large fields , such as its recent find west of Shetland . |
| 3 | A dissociation between these two scripts has been observed in Japanese aphasics ( Sasanuma , 1975 ) and in a patient with alexia and agraphia . |
| 4 | Whether light as well as heat is generated in these reactions has been questioned by some critics . |
| 5 | That oldest of disciplines has been neglected by 20th-century educationalists . |
| 6 | A. otteri has been recorded from both sides of the North Atlantic . |
| 7 | This is another attempt to waste parliamentary time — already 280 hours has been wasted in this way in the past two decades . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ On a lighter note , the Battle of the Bands in Fairport , Rhode Island , during which heavy metal groups Deathtongue and the Mothers of Violence played simultaneous sets in the same auditorium for thirty-eight straight hours has been resolved in single combat between the rival lead singers . |
| 9 | The safety statements of relevant Group companies reflect these obligations and the continued successful implementation of the safety statement policies has been maintained through systematic review . |
| 10 | A part of this is personal : the shadow of Labour 's punitive taxation plans has been lifted from thousands of households . |
| 11 | The increasing control of TDC by the Texas courts has been referred to several times already . |
| 12 | Much detailed information about the vibration frequencies of different electronic states of diatomic molecules and some simple polyatomic molecules has been obtained in this way . |
| 13 | A dose response to oestrogens has been shown with increasing doses having greater effects on bone density . |
| 14 | But once some set of rules has been established in this way , we might well think it more important that these rules be publicly regarded as settled , so that people can plan accordingly , than that they be the best rules that could have been found ; this provides a reason why courts should leave the rule untouched even when they think the wrong choice was made in the first instance . " |
| 15 | The pension offered to widows has been cut in half . |
| 16 | Torvale Building Products has been sold to another firm . |
| 17 | The need to be extra vigilant at all times has been stressed by terminal operations manager Roy Beardall following a security alert at Sullom Voe in August . |
| 18 | This intake of children from ethnic minority groups has been associated by some with difficulties within the school , such as ‘ declining standards ’ and ‘ discipline problems ’ . |
| 19 | A food co-op which tried to replace the burned-out shops has been closed after several break-ins , and even the drop-in centre is burgled weekly , according to project worker Sheila Auld . |
| 20 | Labour claims that central government capital spending on schools has been cut by 29 per cent in real terms since 1979 , while LEA spending has been squeezed mercilessly . |
| 21 | A similar effect of DNJ on integrin mediated cell adhesion to collagens has been described for several myoblast cell lines . |
| 22 | In the 1980s the United Kingdom New Issue market in equities has been affected by two major developments . |
| 23 | The number of doctors and dentists has been increased by 17,000 , and the real resources committed to GP services have doubled since 1979 . |
| 24 | The idea of maximizing the product of individual utilities has been employed by Fair ( 1971 ) and has been criticized by Ng ( 1979 ) . |
| 25 | Since 1970 the amount of noise allowed from cars has been cut from 82 decibels to 77 , and that has to drop to 74 by 1995 under new European Commission proposals . |
| 26 | Each object shown in these pictures has been scanned at two or three different wavelengths . |
| 27 | An offer of thanks has been extended to those who helped to make the event a success . |
| 28 | There is sixteenth-century orthographic evidence , which we shall further discuss in chapter 5 , that suggests some distribution of low vowel realizations for /Ε/; in London English of the period : it seems possible that this pattern of lowering of historic short vowels has been overtaken in recent standard English and Central Scots by a pattern of raising and ( in the latter case ) lengthening . |
| 29 | These fibrotic processes are rare and tend to occur in isolation , although a number of overlap syndromes has been reported with multiple organ involvement . |
| 30 | A further point in relation to the accusation of the ethnocentricity of Freud 's assumptions about gender roles has been made by some people in the Women 's Movement , such as Kate Millet and Ann Oakley . |