Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun pl] has been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus far only a small fraction of overseas investment of multi-national corporations has been allotted to agribusiness in the poor countries , but the amount is increasing . |
| 2 | So far , a third of the office space in the first phase of eight buildings has been booked . |
| 3 | So far , a third of the office space in the first phase of eight buildings has been booked . |
| 4 | A panel of European judges has been visiting a town carrying Britain 's hopes in Entente Florale . |
| 5 | ONE of the principal components of the German question , and of the entire European situation , is the recognition of the fact that the question of European borders has been solved in a definitive and irrevocable manner . |
| 6 | Premature birth may be caused by a number of factors or by no apparent cause , while one pregnancy of 334 days has been recorded . |
| 7 | The Examiner spoke of his ‘ ability to discover players who will earn laurels for themselves and their club ; indeed , his discrimination in the capture of budding players has been described as uncanny ’ . |
| 8 | A TELLER of tall tales has been brought in to help would-be vicars keep the congregation rolling in the aisles . |
| 9 | This series of strong points has been shown to have been established by Constantius Chlorus as part of his campaign for the recovery of the Province in AD 296 . |
| 10 | The absence of strong unions has been connected with the alleged propensity of TNCs to hop from one cheap labour zone to another ( Frobel et al. , 1980 ) , though Dror finds little evidence of ‘ footloose ’ industries . |
| 11 | A LEADING organisation involved in the renovation of historic buildings has been forced into liquidation because families have squatted in the houses it restored . |
| 12 | A LEADING organisation involved in the renovation of historic buildings has been forced into liquidation because families have squatted in the houses it restored . |
| 13 | A haul of stolen cars has been seized by police officers in a two day operation in which eighteen people were arrested . |
| 14 | A haul of stolen cars has been seized by police officers in a two day operation in which eighteen people were arrested . |
| 15 | A range of possible reasons has been put forward , stressing that it is important to get the right degree of capital intensity for the business and that many businesses may simply be misled by current profitability and push investment too far . |
| 16 | Among other things , this means that the traditional connection between loan redemptions and the lives of associated assets has been broken . |
| 17 | It is not perhaps surprising that concern over the handling of agricultural matters has been expressed from a number of parks including Exmoor and the North York Moors where pressures for reclamation have been , and perhaps still are , considerable . |
| 18 | This has meant that one of the major firms of chartered accountants has been employed . |
| 19 | TESTING for a short list of illicit drugs has been labelled as myopic , since the working population as a whole tends to abuse a vast pharmacopoeia of legal but impairing substances , many of them heavily promoted by distilleries and pharmaceutical firms . |
| 20 | Furthermore , by UV-cross-linking experiments , a polypeptide of 85,000 daltons has been found to bind to this region , a molecular weight similar to that found in our experiments for the factor binding to oligonucleotide I ( see Fig. 6 ) . |
| 21 | This model of client-bureaucracy relations has been summarized by Etzioni-halevy , who concludes that |
| 22 | The increase in the number of single-parent families has been detailed in Part I. The rise has been so significant that , had it not been overshadowed by the advent of mass unemployment , much of today 's public debate about welfare reform would be centred on how best to help this group of claimants . |
| 23 | As one might expect from the rise in the divorce rate , the proportion of single-parent families has been increasing . |
| 24 | Yet Berlin is also where the new Europe of old ideals has been born again in 1989 . |
| 25 | A helpful discussion of ways to care for dying people of different faiths has been compiled ( Neuberger , 1987 ) . |
| 26 | The ecology of saline lakes has been reviewed by Heywood ( 1984 ) and Vincent ( 1988 ) . |
| 27 | They support Cory Aquino ; but the barefoot health workers ' small supply of free drugs has been curtailed by her administration . |
| 28 | The potential pathogenicity of free radicals has been emphasised by recent work which suggests that reactive oxygen metabolities are not just one of a number of mediators and cytokines involved in the inflammatory process in inflammatory bowel disease but may have a pivotal role by initiating the expression of genes controlling may other aspects of the inflammatory , immune , and acute phase response , by activation of the transcription factor NF-kΒ . |
| 29 | The recommendation that costs thrown away as a result of the death or illness of a judge in the course of a trial should be paid out of public funds has been given effect by the Administration of Justice Act 1985 . |
| 30 | Much research on children 's explanations of scientific events has been carried out since the 1970s . |