Example sentences of "[noun pl] has been [verb] [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| 12 | Thus it is suggested that a hierarchy of social groups has been replaced by a hierarchy of individuals .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 | Yet Jennifer in recent months has been growing through a difficult spell in the growing up process , particularly mentally . |
| 26 | In New York , exhibition space at the museum 's headquarters on Fifth Avenue has nearly doubled to 51,000 square feet , and a further 31,000 square feet has been provided through a downtown building which opens on the same day . |
| 27 | A reduction in suitable nest sites has been suggested as a possible cause , and a breeding survey of cliff-nesting Herring Gulls and Rock Pipits conducted in 1965 tends to confirm this idea . |
| 28 | As in so many countries in Europe , the collapse of the communists has been accompanied by a resurgence of support for the extreme right . |
| 29 | The trial of his killers has been regarded as a test of the political will of the authorities to put an end to the climate of impunity prevalent in the rural areas of Brazil , where scores of peasants and their leaders have been killed by hired gunmen . |
| 30 | The type of employment offered by manufacturing industry in rural areas has been questioned for a number of reasons . |