Example sentences of "been [vb pp] on [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As discussed in section 8.4.3 , the bacterium Rhizobium spp. is one of the main bacteria involved in nitrogen fixation via its symbiotic relationship with leguminous plant species , and much work has been undertaken on the beneficial effects on crop productivity which may ensue if seeding with this bacterium is undertaken . |
| 2 | The girl had been placed on a social services ‘ at risk ’ register after suffering a broken arm and collarbone in a fall . |
| 3 | The changes on the labour market had come with greater rapidity than anticipated , too much reliance had been placed on the automatic adjustments , the mobility , of the market mechanism ’ ( quoted Flanagan et al. , 1983 , p. 605 ) . |
| 4 | Most pet owners who know either cats or dogs would readily agree with where the expressions have been placed on the two axes of likelihood of attack and likelihood of escape . |
| 5 | The two component parts of Owen 's productive classes had been placed on the opposite sides of a divide ; and their separation into ‘ them and us ’ was now so far completed as to have become irreversible . |
| 6 | Of the first edition it was said : The book deals with the whole gamut of infectious diseases but due emphasis has been placed on the common diseases , both in their typical and atypical forms and on those aspects of the less common diseases which a practitioner may recognise … |
| 7 | Both Sears ' and the Library of Congress List of Subject Headings have been criticized on the following counts : |
| 8 | I note that in two of the main authorities to which we have been referred on the substantive issues , Payne v. Lord Harris of Greenwich [ 1981 ] 1 W.L.R. 754 and In re Findlay [ 1985 ] A.C. 318 , it seems to have been assumed without argument that this court had jurisdiction . |
| 9 | To protect the spirit of demilitarisation , a convention has been followed that defence spending will not exceed 1 per cent of GNP , and although this ceiling has been broken on a few occasions , the 1 per cent target has a symbolic significance . |
| 10 | Two cases have been reported on the new rules . |
| 11 | As yet research is not available , nor has substantive work been done on the relative merits of different approaches to providing residential care for children with disabilities . |
| 12 | Phosphatidylcholine molecules have been synthesised which contain diacetylenic groups in one ( mixed-chain polymers ) or both acyl chains ( identical-chain polymers ) , and studies have been done on the physical properties and biological applications of these phospholipid polymers . |
| 13 | Comment has already been made on the continuing changes within the industry . |
| 14 | Many times on the recent trip to New Zealand Noel Murphy publicly referred to the vastly increased calendar of events which have been imposed on the leading players in all the rugby countries . |
| 15 | Where the change is not so fundamental as to be caught by this rule and the departure follows upon some dispute , client notification will not be unconnected with whatever restraint covenants have been imposed on the outgoing partner(s) . |
| 16 | During the course the group had been briefed on the technical skills and safety requirements needed to complete the task . |
| 17 | Although most descriptive grammars have been based on written documents , a few , such as that by Palmer ( 1965 ) , and that of the français fondamental , have been based on the spoken forms of the language . |
| 18 | A Soviet Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs , Valeri Nikolaenko , who visited the Cuban capital Havana on Sept. 21-22 , stated that agreement had been reached on the practical aspects of a staged withdrawal of a 3,000-strong Soviet training brigade and on a " specific time frame " for talks on further withdrawals . |
| 19 | Those who win money on the horses at Kirkby Lonsdale races in Cumbria can quickly sober up if they wander down from the racecourse to see how their rates have been spent on the adjacent reaches of the river Lune , where the recently cemented banks are dramatically caving in , and attempts at bank protection appear to have made matters worse . |
| 20 | Traces have been found on the mummified bodies entombed in the pyramids of Egypt , and the plant 's red colouring has been used ever since by various races and civilizations not only for hair , but also for nails and skin . |
| 21 | The conflict also comes out of another division within the working class itself , between its respectable and upward-striving representatives and the poor , who have been dumped on the derelict estates . |
| 22 | Two-shift working has been introduced on the tufting machines , creating additional jobs , all of which involved training of new recruits . |
| 23 | Policemen and women are members of a close-knit occupational world with a discrete culture and also face a world which has great variability and confusion , and considerable attention has been focused on the cognitive processes , typifications , and recipes they employ to accomplish policing ( for example , see Bittner 1967 , 1980 ; Chatterton 1975 ; Holdaway 1983 ; Manning 1977 ; Policy Studies Institute 1983b ; Reiner 1978 ; Rubinstein 1973 ; Skolnick 1966 ; for a study of police typifications in the United States which has a very odd combination of Schutz 's ideas , symbolic interactionism , and quantitative and mathematical models , see Sykes and Brent 1983 ) . |
| 24 | Most attention has been focused on the ionotropic receptors ( like NMDA and kainic acid receptors ) , but it is clear that metabotropic receptors operating through the InsP 3 and DAG messenger systems have a profound effect on neural behaviour , including memory . |
| 25 | Following the safety line up to your guide boat seems to be the best possibility , but only if the line has not been cut on the sharp edges of the ice , or if the boat tender has not had to release the safety line to keep his boat from being capsized or dragged under the iceberg . |
| 26 | Much work has already been generated on the biological mechanisms involved . |
| 27 | It simply is not true that the burden of taxation has been increased on the poorer members of society . |
| 28 | The man had been impaled on the rusted spikes of a security gate that had been discarded underneath the tarpaulin . |
| 29 | ‘ In a sense the problem has been foisted on the surrounding communities , by the City 's development . |
| 30 | The House of Lords has been criticised on the following grounds : |