Example sentences of "has [be] [verb] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She has been elected to an emeritus fellowship , and has our good wishes for her retirement .
2 which has been coated with an ultra-violet light resistant lacquer or ‘ resist ’ .
3 This has been explained by an increased number of transient sphincter relaxations after a meal .
4 Abuse of children has been recognised as an important concern because children are seen to represent the future ; to abuse them is to abuse the future welfare of the nation .
5 More than £20 million in research costs has been lost on an abandoned nuclear safety programme .
6 MORE than £20 million in research costs has been lost on an abandoned nuclear safety programme for Britain 's advanced gas-cooled reactors ( AGR ) , the National Audit Office disclosed yesterday .
7 The disobedient youth has been injected with an experimental drug , though of course his tactile sensations are n't blunted .
8 As a result of their continued advocacy , research for its own sake has been developed on an appreciable scale .
9 The new artificial pancreas has been developed by an American company called Biohybrid Technologies , and the Harvard University Medical School .
10 This theory , which has been developed from an extensive survey of landscape paintings , argues that landscapes are highly symbolic habitats in which the most valued landscapes allow us to see ( prospect ) without being seen ( refuge ) and therefore relate to our origins as hunter-gatherers .
11 That preference has been strengthened by an alarming rise in unemployment since last autumn .
12 The trustees must disclose to members , prospective members , beneficiaries and trade unions : the address and functions of the Pensions Ombudsman ; the role of the Occupational Pensions Advisory Service ; whether an insolvency practitioner has been appointed as an independent trustee ; whether the Registrar of Occupational and Personal Pensions has accepted registration of the scheme ; and whether the trustees have access to the guidance of the Occupational Pensions Board .
13 expert has been appointed by an appointing authority .
14 It is sufficient for that person to establish that he or she has been prevented to an appreciable extent from enjoying the ordinary comforts of life ; there is no need to establish direct injury to health .
15 And it 's a patch clamp recording which has been done in an inside-out patch , that is with the physiological inside of the membrane facing the bathing medium , so we have experimental control over what the er physiological inside of the membrane is seeing here .
16 The life expectancy of the Pegasus , for example , has been extended by an estimated five to ten years .
17 Some say diffidently that the ERM has been assaulted by an extraordinary and unrepeatable event ( German unification ) ; or that the underlying imbalances which caused last September 's breakdown ( the pound and some other currencies were over-valued against the D-mark ) have now been sorted out .
18 The silt-clay relationship has been explored in an environmental energy context for lake and marine systems .
19 A CALL has been made for an empty building near a town centre to be turned into a nursery .
20 The case for re-thinking what we mean by practice and its relation with theory has been made at an abstract level by writers who draw on the two very different philosophical traditions which contest the dichotomy , Marxism with its concept of praxis , and the American pragmatists who direct our attention to the consequences of our actions .
21 The exposure of his hypocrisy has been made by an innate moral principle in the universe .
22 Much of the systematic anthropological work on war and conflict in recent years has been made within an ecological or socio-biological analytical framework .
23 For many years AI has been calling for an independent judicial inquiry to investigate the pattern of disputed killings by security forces in Northern Ireland in order to help prevent unlawful killings .
24 Walter Reynolds has been condemned as an illiterate and unprincipled time-server , lacking in strength of character and nobility of vision .
25 AN art exhibition on lesbians , due to open at Darlington 's Arts Centre has been condemned by an outraged Tory councillor .
26 Her welding torch has been applied to an old mini to turn it into a Pink hippopotamus .
27 Permission has been given for an 18-hole golf course at the Redworth Hall Hotel , near Heighington .
28 So : your Uccello has been skewered by an assegai-wielding sociopath convinced that some noxious item of legislation will be reversed once he Goths a valuable masterpiece .
29 This is the analysis which was presented in Chomsky and Halle ( 1968 ) and has been followed by an enormous number of works exploring the same field .
30 This weakness has been largely du , they suggest , to the fact that readability research has been based on an impoverished psychology of reading .
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