Example sentences of "[det] have been [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This has been stressed by new Minister of Agriculture Gillian Shephard in her first speech since taking up her new job in the Cabinet . |
| 32 | Much of this has been financed by Kuwaiti money and has created the kind of visual damage to the city centre the Germans inflicted during the war . |
| 33 | In the past this has been provided by local authority residential homes ( or private equivalents ) and long stay NHS beds , depending on the independence of the person concerned . |
| 34 | This has been adapted by numerous local planning authorities , many of whom have produced their own leaflets laying down specific guidelines and illustrating examples of good and bad practice . |
| 35 | Of the constituent countries of the UK , Northern Ireland had a considerable degree of devolved government but this has been modified in recent years pending resolution of Ireland 's partition problems . |
| 36 | Hawkins has produced the Online information retrieval bibliography , 1964–1979 and this has been supplemented by annual updates , which include a section ‘ user education and training ’ . |
| 37 | This has been reported for clustered small intestinal contractions identified in patients with irritable bowel syndrome , which seem to coincide with pain . |
| 38 | This has been underlined by recent proposed UK Budget changes which have abolished tax reliefs for UK exploration and development . |
| 39 | This has been attributed to mere manipulation of the masses by irresponsible politicians , or explained by theories of economic and class conflicts . |
| 40 | This has been suggested by male authors who wish to support the cause of women , and by many a Christian feminist . |
| 41 | This has been interpreted as increasing arousal to levels incompatible with that task . |
| 42 | This has been subjected to critical scrutiny by Allan ( 1986 ) . |
| 43 | Recent research has shown how glaciers may be affected by periodic surges in which ice may be transmitted down-glacier at speeds 10–100 times faster than normal and this has been identified from small glaciers and also from some ice sheets on a continental or subcontinental scale ( Sugden and John , 1976 ) . |
| 44 | Literature is replete with tales of the power which old people have exercised over property and the way this has been used in intergenerational interactions . |
| 45 | Even if Behaviouralism in truth attacked Realism for its method rather than its assumptions , the attack did nevertheless have serious consequences for the development of the subject , making its practitioners at least much more conscious of the importance of methodological issues ; and this has been reflected in continuing debates about methodology since the mid-1950s . |
| 46 | One answer to such a detailed approach has been to revitalize the notion of large-scale geomorphology for example ( Gardner and Scoging , 1983 ) but another has been to concentrate upon human activity as providing a focus centred around the central system ( p. 156 ) . |
| 47 | But in mid-1942 , at Bir-Hakeim in the Libyan desert , Free French forces had scored their first significant victory against German forces , and this had been followed by other successful actions in North Africa . |
| 48 | This had been achieved following lengthy negotiations with the Post Office and would cause minimal disruption and considerable savings over the current system . |
| 49 | It is unrealistic to expect GPs to fund such studies , although some have been undertaken by central government ( Anderson , 1989 ) . |
| 50 | Corpus availability is currently limited due to legal constraints although some have been cleared for academic research . |
| 51 | The girls usually ignore the soldiers , though some have been killed by random bullets . |
| 52 | ‘ Some have been sold to private developers who are spending a lot of money on them , ’ he says . |
| 53 | Much has been lost by various people in many different ways . |
| 54 | Much has been written by social anthropologists against the materialist approaches in ethnographic analysis . |
| 55 | So much has been written in recent years about Ralph Sarich 's Orbital two-stroke engine that our award for technical innovation might appear somewhat tardy . |
| 56 | Much has been written in recent years of the so-called " male menopause " . |
| 57 | Much has been achieved in geriatric medicine , and a multi-disciplinary approach is well established in many places . |
| 58 | Much has been achieved in recent years . |
| 59 | In many respects the management of GEAR has been ineffective : goals have been defined too broadly , simply to ensure consensus ; organizations have been assimilated within GEAR for purely cosmetic purposes ; power has been too diffuse ; and too much has been made of environmental improvements when the local economy has been subject to dramatic changes and unemployment has risen substantially . |
| 60 | Much has been done in recent months to draw those matters to the attention of the Department and , as I said , I believe that Ministers have been listening . |