Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb -s] [been] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not aware of the point that the hon. Gentleman raises but , as he knows , a tremendous amount of support has been made available through the Home Office and other sources to assist members of the ethnic minorities in this country . |
| 2 | Rev Daniel Ntoni-Nzinga of Angola has been appointed International Coordinator of the Ecumenical Monitoring Programme in South Africa . |
| 3 | ‘ The persistent concern to increase councillor calibre through reorganization ’ , he says , ‘ makes it equally clear that the essential object of reorganization has been to make local government more functional for dominant interests , by restructuring it so as to facilitate their direct control of its expenditure and interventions ’ ( 1979 , p. 245 ) . |
| 4 | By far the most important problem that has been selected as providing the push into the invention of crime has been thwarted conventional ambitions — Merton 's ( 1938 ) ‘ anomie ’ theory and the ‘ delinquent subculture ’ theories of Cohen ( 1955 ) and Cloward and Ohlin ( 1960 ) being the most influential examples . |
| 5 | Some writers have argued that the problem of overload has been made worse by the centralization of government decision-making . |
| 6 | A further gift of £1000 has been received this year for this purpose . |
| 7 | The Royal Mail , which for a number of years has been transporting first-class mail overnight by air , totally reorganised its operation at the end of September . |
| 8 | The Marquess of Blandford has been fined one thousand pounds for not paying taxi fares . |
| 9 | The reaction of governments has been to resist such initiatives and view them as threats . |
| 10 | In addition since that time a host of legislation has been passed separate from the companies acts which provides rights for each of the parties involved . |
| 11 | In the US , farmers work the soil so hard that around five billion tonnes are blown or washed away annually and an area twice the size of California has been rendered unproductive . |
| 12 | The Secretary of State has been awaiting this advice for sometime . |
| 13 | For the first time in this country , for many pupils , the assessment of oracy has been made compulsory : by GCSE . |
| 14 | The department of health has been recommending early penicillin treatment in meningitis cases since nineteen eighty eight , but there 's never been any evidence that it works , until now . |
| 15 | However , it is encouraging that the University 's Guild of Graduates has been giving serious consideration to the future development of higher education in the Principality , including advanced further education . |
| 16 | In example 1 above , the t of steep has been left uncrossed , making the word look like sleep instead , and in example 2 the word dog looks like clog . |
| 17 | This mode of explanation has been called methodological individualism , for it seeks to disaggregate all larger institutional and historical entities into the practices and relations of the individuals or groups who compose or inhabit them . |
| 18 | The imagination of Presley has been rendered uncomfortable by the presence of the serial killer known as Pitchfork Disney . |
| 19 | This type of evaluation has been called illuminative evaluation by Parlett and Hamilton , and responsive evaluation by Stake . |
| 20 | To date this operation seems to be free of cancer risk although one case of cancer has been reported seven years after operation . |
| 21 | A trainer and breeder of horses has been found guilty on cruelty charges . |
| 22 | But Professor Cizek of Vienna has been putting these ideas into practice for the last thirty years , with the results you may see exhibited . |
| 23 | If we take the example of John has been taken ill ( as a statement of John 's state of health ) , the foundation-laying element would be John . |