Example sentences of "have been [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Monopoly policy was comprehensively reassessed in the 1973 Fair Trading Act and has been amended in the 1980 Competition Act . |
| 2 | James Briggs , of Stone House , Coniscliffe Road , Darlington , has been recognised in the 1991/1992 Shooting Times Conservation Awards . |
| 3 | The special position of young people has been recognised in the voluntary agreements that the Government have negotiated with the industry and it was explicit in the 1986 voluntary agreement . |
| 4 | At St Paul 's Cathedral , London , an average of 30 mm of Portland stone has been lost in the past 250 years , with , in one particularly exposed position , 22 mm being lost in just 45 years ( figure 4.20 ; Dudley et al. , 1985 ) . |
| 5 | ARCHAEOLOGISTS believe that priceless information about the past has been lost in the severe storms which battered Orkney earlier this year . |
| 6 | The genesis of political consciousness towards conservation programmes arose in very different circumstances , but its development has been moving in the same directions as family planning programmes . |
| 7 | The model has been developed in the late 1970s by a new wave of American elite theorists ( Krasner , 1978 ; Skocpol , 1979 ; Nordlinger , 1981 ) influenced by both the political realism of classical elite theory and by the neo-Marxist focus upon the relative autonomy of the capitalist state ( pp. 243 — 6 ) . |
| 8 | The 1944 Education Act laid a responsibility on LEAs to monitor the work of their schools and this has been strengthened in the 1988 Education Reform Act . |
| 9 | The impression has been strengthened in the past few years that macro-economic developments and policies are now essentially international in character . |
| 10 | The convergence of geopolitical events , of the consequences of the technology that has been fermenting in the post-war years , of new ideologies , of government processes are of a scale and significance unprecedented for half a century . |
| 11 | In all of these case an alleged offence ensures mandatory and indeterminate hospitalisation despite the fact that no trial has taken place in the former category while no conviction has been recorded in the latter . |
| 12 | O. cuspidata has been recorded in the eastern Atlantic from iceland as far south as Ascension Island with a bathymetric range of 768–2460 m . |
| 13 | stock items where no sale has been recorded in the last twelve months ; or |
| 14 | So savour it while it is still new , because the developers have had the conservationists looking keenly over their shoulders during the building work , and everything has been done in the best possible taste . |
| 15 | Most work has been done in the visible and near-UV regions ( wavelengths 700–200 nm ; frequencies 14 000–50 000 cm -1 ) where photographic recording is easy , and glass or quartz optics are ideal . |
| 16 | Instead an eclectic approach has been taken , highlighting some of the more significant work that has been done in the five years since the first edition of this book was published . |
| 17 | This has been done in the first instance through joint ventures with Ladbrokes and Bass respectively , though Horizon also owned and operated hotels in its own name . |
| 18 | Most work on fossil dolphins has been done in the Northern Hemisphere , and little is yet known about the South . |
| 19 | Although a great deal of work has been done in the historical demography of the developed world relatively little research has been carried out in relation to the corresponding ( i.e. pre-demographic transition ) period in the Third World . |
| 20 | However , it could be argued , as has been done in the related literature on labour hoarding ( see Greer/Rhoades , 1977 ) , that establishments in a dominant market position might develop the organisational capacity to maintain more stable employment in the face of demand fluctuations , and WIRS does provide management 's assessment of sensitivity of output to price changes by competitors — a good indicator of the degree of market dominance . |
| 21 | Much has been done in the past few months , but more needs to be done . |
| 22 | The party has been placed in the impossible position of choosing a leader to fight the next election when it has not yet had the opportunity to discuss why it lost the last one . |
| 23 | Andrew , after prolonged and rather unintelligent delinquency , has been placed in the secure unit of a community house with education . |
| 24 | Andrew , after prolonged and rather unintelligent delinquency , has been placed in the secure unit of a community house with education . |
| 25 | Notification of the compulsory purchase order has been placed in the public press . |
| 26 | ‘ … the extent of the establishment is but barely sufficient for the exigencies of the County , and it can not be contended that it is on too large or extravagant a scale ; the number of patients constantly on the books of the Infirmary ; the high reputation which it has justly acquired under the excellent management of the medical and other officers belonging to it ; the strict economy which to the general satisfaction of the Governors has been observed in the ordinary expenditure of the House … call forcibly upon the County at large to hold out a protecting hand to save it from ruin which appears inevitably to have waited , if not averted by our timely interference . ’ |
| 27 | Around £850,000 has been invested in the latest equipment , by LSF , which has an annual turnover of £4m . |
| 28 | The first attitude has been witnessed in the 1930s and during our more recent experience of high unemployment . |
| 29 | This issue has been raised in the earlier section on dependency . |
| 30 | Indeed , this predisposition has been reinforced in the Japanese case by the unusual degree of social uniformity which appears to stem from the homogeneity of the people and their customs . |