Example sentences of "has [be] [vb pp] in a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agency has been recognised in a number of international contexts . |
| 2 | The effect has been recognised in a number of studies , not least in my own . |
| 3 | An increased risk of developing gastric cancer in the smoking population has been highlighted in a number of large scale prospective cohort studies and there is increasing evidence accumulating from postlabelling studies that DNA adducts can be correlated with smoking history . |
| 4 | His leadership has been criticized in a number of particulars : the timing of the movement 's creation ( too early or too late ) ; the adoption of anti-communism , which had short-term benefits but turned Gaullism into a right-wing preserve ; the systematic hostility to parliament and refusal to negotiate with the parties ; the tactical mistake of refusing apparentements in June 1951 . |
| 5 | In the business sector , the users ' needs approach to accounting theory has been adopted in a number of authoritative statements . |
| 6 | The volume of complaint about the difficulties encountered by pedestrians is certainly high and has been recorded in a number of surveys in recent years . |
| 7 | This has been done in a number of papers and in this sections we outline the results of a study by Attfield and Duck ( 1983 ) ( henceforth AD ) . |
| 8 | What happens when a majority voting equilibrium does not exist has been explored in a number of studies . |
| 9 | The significance of these regimes for economic policy has been explored in a number of papers , notably in Muellbauer and Portes ( 1978 ) and Malinvaud ( 1977 ) . |
| 10 | The automatic recognition of word meanings has been demonstrated in a number of experimental investigations . |
| 11 | ( S. ) 320 , and has been applied in a number of subsequent decisions , such as Fleming and Dodge ( 1984 ) 6 Cr.App.R . |
| 12 | Such an example is the alternation between [ in ] and [ i ? ] on the ing form of verbs , which has been studied in a number of places . |
| 13 | Increased lung-cancer fatalities in uranium miners who inhale radioactive gas during the course of their work has been studied in a number of countries . |
| 14 | As a result , a housing association presence has been achieved in a number of relatively small villages . |
| 15 | The divide has been bridged in a number of ways , one being shadow Cabinet elections putting people like Tom Clarke or John Prescott into the upper echelons . |
| 16 | Eurocurrency banking activity , the subject of this chapter , has been defined in a number of ways . |
| 17 | The courts have used regulatory rules in determining whether an obligation under the general law exists or has been broken in a number of ways . |
| 18 | Inequality of conversational opportunity has been uncovered in a number of areas . |
| 19 | Edward I chose essentially French themes to complete the decor-ations of the Painted Chamber at Westminster and a ‘ particularly strong French influence ’ has been detected in a number of English works dating from the period c.1290–1320 . |
| 20 | Personal preference has been examined in a number of statistical ways . |
| 21 | The package has been tested in a number of Fields and is now being extended to the remaining African locations . |
| 22 | This pattern has been repeated in a number of African countries . |
| 23 | The territorial reach of Anton Piller orders has been considered in a number of cases . |
| 24 | The defence has been considered in a number of recent cases in which it has been held that it is to be applied in a flexible and pragmatic way . |
| 25 | This has been considered in a number of recent winding-up cases , notably in Re Abbey Leisure Ltd [ 1990 ] BCC 60 , where the Court of Appeal said that two grounds for preferring a winding-up order to the transfer notice procedure and valuation by a company 's auditor were : ( 1 ) that there was nothing unreasonable in a petitioner with a minority holding refusing to accept a discount being applied to the valuation of his interest in the company , which an auditor was likely to decide on ; and ( 2 ) that there was machinery available in winding-up for the proper determination of claims , which was not available to an auditor . |
| 26 | The horse may suffer anxiety in relation to one specific part of its life : shoeing , trailering , saddling , mounting , and so oh , but if it has been hurt in a number of situations , it is likely to learn to be anxious in relation to anything to do with people . |
| 27 | Despite the criticism levelled at the public conscience test it has been used in a number of cases . |
| 28 | It has been held in a number of cases that if a person claims to have a legitimate expectation , this will give that person standing to make an application for judicial review unless the claim is totally frivolous . |
| 29 | This has been manifested in a number of ways including the birth of interdisciplinary journals such as Quaternary Research ( 1970- ) and Boreas ( 1972- ) and Quaternary Science Reviews ( 1982- ) ; of national organizations for Quaternary Scientists including AMQUA in America , DEUQUA in Germany , NORDQUA in Scandinavia and the QRA ( Quaternary Research Association ) in Britain ; of the growth of the International Union for Quaternary Research ( INQUA ) with its meetings every 4 years and many commissions which coordinate research in many fields ; and of international cooperation under the auspices of the International Geological Correlation Programme ( IGCP ) which includes Quaternary investigations within its endeavours . |
| 30 | This is not to rule out the possibility of language convergence in terms of grammar , lexis and phonology , which has been reported in a number of cases . |