Example sentences of "have [be] [vb pp] [verb] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following extensive international concern over the levels of safety of the older power reactors in the former USSR , AEA has been appointed to manage an international programme of safety evaluation for RBMK-type reactors in Russia , Lithuania and Ukraine . |
| 2 | Every effort has been made to produce an accurate list . |
| 3 | Although considerable effort has been made to develop an automatic release for the towplane , the problems are not as simple as they might at first seem and so far no really satisfactory technical answer has been found . |
| 4 | He has been selected to undertake an eight-week lecture tour of Australia under the UK-Australian Teacher Fellowship run through Queen 's University . |
| 5 | But at the Apprentice House , home to the child workers , the garden has been re-created to illustrate an ideal picture of productivity and industry . |
| 6 | The Regional Council has been asked to approve an amended line for the Millerhill Section of the Outer City Bypass , between the Musselburgh Bypass and the A68 at Sheriffhall . |
| 7 | In the absence of more sophisticated data , the calculation of the numbers of married women and men living on low incomes has been forced to assume an equal division of income within the income unit . |
| 8 | The money has been used to provide an adapted electric trike for 12-year-old Claire Coultard , who lives in Reg 's home town of Scunthorpe . |
| 9 | He describes how a large body of data concerning planetary motion has been used to make an overall test . |
| 10 | However , in the latter , reasonable control has been reported using an annual rotation of beef cattle and sheep . |
| 11 | Since 1971 Chichester Harbour has been shown to hold an annual winter peak of between 27,000 and 38,000 waders and 8,000 to 13,000 wildfowl . |
| 12 | In man , nicotine given parenterally has been shown to have an acute inhibitory action on the gastric secretion . |
| 13 | The gastrointestinal hormone cholecystokinine has been shown to have an opposite effect on the human sphincter of Oddi compared with that of the rabbit and prairie dog . |
| 14 | In the past harmonisation has been interpreted to mean an institutionalised discrimination against spirits by having very different tax regimes for competing alcoholic products in different countries . |
| 15 | A new Advisory Council on Continuing Education has been established to provide an improved mechanism for consulting individuals outside the University on the development of CE programmes . |
| 16 | A product has been updated to reference an unapproved issue of the product package . |
| 17 | Probably a notional VAT contribution of around 1.9 per cent would have been required to produce an equivalent rise in resources . |
| 18 | His early comedies might have been taken to represent an unheard-of civility from the back of beyond . |
| 19 | In logic he had been taught to reach an acceptable conclusion by revising the steps which led to it . |
| 20 | Three enormous stands had been erected to form an open square round the 18th green . |
| 21 | Aoun , a Maronite Christian and former Army Commander , had been appointed to head an interim military government in September 1988 by the outgoing President Amin Gemayel [ see pp. 36361-63 ] . |
| 22 | Karen Silk , defending , said : ‘ He was only at work because he had been asked to do an extra shift . |
| 23 | President Kaunda had been forced to implement an International Monetary Fund-inspired 120 per-cent-increase in the price of Zambia 's staple food , maize meal . |
| 24 | The fact that the long-stay population was not declining as rapidly as had been thought meant an expensive ‘ double running ’ situation . |
| 25 | Just as Prime Minister Streibl was perhaps hoping that his role in the Waldheim affair had been forgotten came an uncomfortable reminder that his own approach to Germany 's past history is not beyond scrutiny . |
| 26 | Part of the senior side had been landscaped to make an attractive outdoor work area with wooden table and benches made in the workshop . |
| 27 | I 've been made to look an awful fool … so humiliated … |
| 28 | A number of senior members of the hospitality industry have been invited to form an editorial panel , which will advise on the content of Hospitality . |
| 29 | The Democrats have been calling Mr Bush 's aid plan ‘ grossly inadequate ’ and have been determined to produce an alternative that would increase the aid to the eastern European countries . |
| 30 | Q I have been asked to make an outside sign in timber for my bowls club . |