Example sentences of "[det] have been [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This has been altered greatly in later times and was neglected in the nineteenth century . |
| 32 | This has been refuted both by the success rate of absent healing and trials on non-suggestible organisms such as the sick cress seeds healed by Boltwood in recent experiments at London University . |
| 33 | There could have been a greater degree of specialization , but this has been avoided here in order to emphasise the collaborative nature of many of the specialisms to be found in the production function . |
| 34 | This has been brought about by the increase in unemployment and the abolition of the statutory minimum wage , together with a programme of Government ministers exalting employers to reduce wage settlements , particularly for the low-paid . |
| 35 | This has been brought about by two main factors : the sale of council houses and a decline in public sector investment in housing . |
| 36 | This has been brought about in two ways , first , by specific EEC Directives which insist , for instance , that Britain gives preference to EEC countries with respect to her sales of North Sea oil . |
| 37 | All of this has been set out in greater detail before now . |
| 38 | The Institute also received its first complaint about the way it has fulfilled its role as an RSB : this has been passed on to the Institute 's ombudsman Anthony Surtees for review . |
| 39 | That 's a possibility but this has been talked through with both the Social Services and the the hospital and er we 've decided to take that chance . |
| 40 | Thanks in large part to electronic paging this has been reduced significantly over the past 10 years . |
| 41 | The profession has played a significant part in the development of products for long-term insurance companies and this has been helped considerably by the work carried out by the CMI Bureau , something which is unique in Europe . |
| 42 | They 've seen the introduction of performance related pay , personal contracts , new working practices , pay freezes , pay cuts and always the fear of redundancy and all of this has been going on at a time when increasingly companies are withdrawing from national collective agreements , are establishing separate bargaining arrangements , restricting the activities of trade union officials and increasingly de-recognizing trade unions . |
| 43 | ‘ This has been going on for ten years , ’ he added . |
| 44 | The real cause of the trouble is , that parents and teachers always pass on to us , as children , what they themselves have been told , and this has been going on for hundreds , or even thousands of years . |
| 45 | Now , butterflies live only a matter of weeks , and yet this has been going on for years . |
| 46 | I 'm actually concerned that if we , did anybody know about this issue earlier on because I think this has been going on for quite some time erm probably over the last two years and if anyone did know then why did n't they address it before and if anyone did n't know , why not ? |
| 47 | ‘ I do n't really think they have done enough this has been going on for some time . |
| 48 | In another class , a boy is being cross-examined on complaints by both girls and boys in the class that he has been groping them ; it emerges through class discussion that this has been going on for two years . |
| 49 | This has been solved simply by lowering the system 's centre of gravity , largely by attaching a heavy mild steel plate to the base . |
| 50 | Again , this has been taken up in this country with workshops on ‘ PASS ’ and ‘ PASSING ’ being widely networked largely through the energies of CMHERA . |
| 51 | This has been taken away from them because the Chancellor , Norman Lamont , chose to freeze allowances in what is a backdoor income tax increase . |
| 52 | This has been taken out of the local economy in Notts . |
| 53 | A search like this has been carried out by two scientists from Dublin , Neil Porter and Trevor Weekes , using telescopes in Arizona . |
| 54 | However , this has been used mainly for those whose crimes would not have sent them to prison anyway . |
| 55 | Another has been put forward behind closed doors by AXA , France 's second-biggest insurance company . |
| 56 | But most sociologists , and now many social anthropologists also , are dealing with complex literate societies in which the accumulation of documents of one sort or another has been going on for centuries . |
| 57 | The meeting between the councillors and local residents did not take place , despite this having been agreed unanimously by the Planning Committee . |
| 58 | Previously , investigations like this had been done mainly from the outsider 's point of view , and it was men like Evans-Pritchard ( 1902–73 ) , Radcliffe-Brown ( 1881–1955 ) , and , particularly , Malinowski ( 1884–1942 ) , who determined that the only really effective way of understanding the way of life of these peoples was to go and live among them for an extended period of time , learning their language , and becoming accepted as a member of their social groups . |
| 59 | I had applied to continue full-time research following my degree course , but this had been turned down by my chief officers ; however , I had been told that assistance for part-time study would almost certainly be approved in view of the national policy of encouraging officers to extend their educational qualifications . |
| 60 | President Chissano had offered an immediate armistice , but this had been turned down by the rebel leader . |