Example sentences of "this [noun] have [been] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sue Thomas feels the law in this case has been made a fool of |
| 2 | This week news comes from Australia that this technique has been taken a stage further ( p 271 ) . |
| 3 | This course has been experiencing a rising age profile in entrants and a particularly sharp increase in the over 35 age group . |
| 4 | This industry has been spending a great deal of money lobbying intensively in Brussels and Strasbourg to reduce restrictions of their trade . |
| 5 | This effect has been given a special significance in the writings of E.P . |
| 6 | My purpose in this chapter has been to propose a model of language teaching and to show the interrelationship between its different elements . |
| 7 | My object in this chapter has been to provide a transition between ( i ) the analysis of economic class relations , in the sense of possession of and separation from the means of production , and the strategic opportunities for the socialist project connected with the current forms of these relations , and ( ii ) the politics of taking up these opportunities in modern Britain . |
| 8 | The effect of this Act has been to inspire a greater sense of caution in British film-makers regarding the involvement of children in immodest or suggestive photography , and restrictions on importing such material might well spread these considerations abroad . |
| 9 | For the last 5 years , chemists in Gloucestershire which display this sign have been operating a needle exchange system . |
| 10 | In 1971 this offender had been given a ten-year sentence for attempting to rape a 69-year-old woman . |
| 11 | An SPR may only be passed on a limited number of times ; once this limit has been reached a user must be forced , by a privileged user , to accept the SPR . |
| 12 | Once this limit has been reached a user must be forced , by a user with SPR SSR CONTROLLER privilege , to accept the SPR . |
| 13 | This project has been called a DIY design as it is open to certain modifications to suit particular whims . |
| 14 | B. A. One time , when I was coming down Commercial Road , there was a crowd gathered at the bottom of Regent Street — you accepted the fact that you had to deal with it — and this crowd had been watching a couple fighting . |
| 15 | Well I think they 're helping us erm possibly if this system had been started a few years ago , then possibly flats complex , would n't have got the bad reputation it has today . |
| 16 | When this stage has been reached a new work will pick them up and , usually by parodic means , make them perceptible again as devices . |
| 17 | As soon as this task had been completed a similar procedure to that of setting up the initial data base was adopted . |