Example sentences of "have be [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It has been recognised that personal effectiveness in all aspects of life , including work , requires the development of certain broad transferable skills .
2 Since then a sound cabin has been built and technical training undertaken to maximise the effectiveness of the broadcasts .
3 In reactors where there is a little organic matter , the fission products are trapped on clay minerals , but these have been less effective than bitumen — about 30 per cent of the ND has been lost and other lanthanides have migrated away from the core .
4 Hans Peter Gohla has been appointed as executive director of the Catholic Media Council ( CAMECO ) in Aachen , Germany .
5 Our congratulations go to two Trainers , who will shortly be taking up new appointments — Joan Gatfield has been appointed as Associate Lecturer at Southwark and Hilary Weedon is now Senior Liaison Officer of the National Childrens Play and Recreation Unit of the Sports Council .
6 Dr B. M. Grieveson , CChem , FRSC , principal of Grieveson Associates , has been appointed as visiting professor to the department of civil engineering at the University of Surrey .
7 It has been observed that Christian fortresses in Syria on numerous occasions failed to act as any sort of check on the movement of Muslim armies .
8 To explain these associations it has been hypothesised that dietary fat increases the colonic concentrations of soluble free fatty acids and secondary bile acids .
9 The importance of situational analysis as a preliminary to curriculum design has been recognised , investment has been made and important questions are being asked .
10 The reason for distinguishing between murder and manslaughter must be to identify and to label the most heinous killings as murder , and it has been questioned whether English law succeeds in this .
11 Once it has been acknowledged that linguistic differentiation is a particularly salient manifestation of the tendency of communities to mark out gender distinctions by a variety of means , it is difficult , given the general orientation of current sociolinguistics , to progress further in finding a convincing explanation of linguistic sex-marking .
12 The planning officer 's attitude to proposals to develop a site can be assessed when only outline approval has been obtained or substantial modification is required to the detailed approval .
13 More generally , it has been contended that international comparisons can be a trap :
14 It has been argued that catholic schools do not do the job for which they were set up , that is educate Roman catholics sufficiently to keep them in the church .
15 It has been argued that continuous agriculture could be maintained if a closed nutrient cycle could be achieved , the canopy not perforated so that leaching would be prevented and the forest floor would not deteriorate , and if nutrients were added to equal those exported as crops and the diversity of species maintained .
16 However , it has been argued that certain clauses operate at an earlier stage so as to define and restrict the extent of the contractual obligation undertaken and so prevent there being any breach of contract .
17 It has been argued that double-hulled vessels can be more hazardous in high-speed collisions than single-hulled vessels .
18 It has been argued that human wealth is so illiquid that the greater is this h ratio , the greater will be the demand for money to compensate for the limited marketability of human wealth .
19 It has been argued that judicial review should never be refused because of the existence of an alternative remedy if the applicant can establish a ground for judicial review .
20 It has been argued that special attention should be focused upon the resilience and potential for recovery of the soil profile in view of the inputs induced by man ( Trudgill , 1977 , chapter 8 ) , and the importance of the problem is underlined by Toy ( 1982 ) in a review of accelerated erosion when he concludes that such erosion can be considered to be the pre-eminent environmental problem in the United States by virtue of its widespread occurrence and cumulative cost .
21 It has been argued that high house prices have prevented workers from moving to new jobs in the South East , leading to recruitment difficulties and increased costs for employers in the region .
22 It has been argued that British membership of the EEC imposes a legal not simply a political limitation on Parliament .
23 It has been argued that corporate efficiency in privatised industries has improved , not just by an exposure to market forces and an acceptance of the profit motive , but by the extra freedom given to managers .
24 It has been argued that romantic love is a relatively modern phenomenon , reserved in earlier times for the delight of troubadours and the illicit pleasures of the rich .
25 And it has been said that local authorities are not always very sympathetic to acting as a choice of career and sometimes obtaining a grant may be more difficult if a student has evidently changed his or her career tack .
26 It has been said that old age comes as a surprise : I was then eighty but had yet to realise it .
27 As it has been assumed that equal amounts of lactulose or other carbohydrate malabsorption will produce equal changes in breath H 2 excretion , rice starch malabsorption has been calculated as g malabsorbed carbohydrate according to the formula :
28 Until now it has been assumed that social changes are determined by events which have the same status in the sense that they may all be conditions and consequences of each other .
29 It was out of these that what has been hypothesized as postmodernist organization developed .
30 ESA 's contribution to the US station has been withheld until concrete proposals emerge from the redesign ordered last month by US president , who instructed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) to scale down the station and cut its operational costs in half ( see Nature 361 , 195 ; 1993 ) .
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