Example sentences of "and has [been] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | George Vafa says that in spite of a six-year campaign and taking up his case with a number of legal firms , the Law Society of Scotland , the Scottish legal ombudsman and the Faculty of Advocates , he has failed to gain justice and has been treated like a criminal . |
| 2 | Halitosis is estimated to afflict 80 per cent of the world 's adult population , and has been cited as a contributory factor in divorce and social isolation . |
| 3 | Thioridazine prolongs the QT interval , produces T wave changes and occasionally torsades de pointes , and has been implicated as a cause of sudden death in schizophrenics . |
| 4 | The Islamic Republic of Mauritania , formerly part of French West Africa , gained full independence in 1960 and has been ruled since a military coup in 1978 by a Military Council of National Salvation ( Comité militaire de salut national — CMSN ) , headed by a chairman ( currently Col. Moaouia Ould Sidi Mohamed Taya ) who is President of the Republic and whose executive power derives from a Constitutional Charter published in 1978 . |
| 5 | The Chipmunk is also of interest , its previous identity suggesting it was recently acquired from the MoD but not so — it is an ex Army Air Corps example that was sold many years ago after storage at Kemble and has been kept as a spares source at the gliding site at Currock Hill , Northumberland , for at least fifteen years . |
| 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 | The paradigm which is described originates from doctoral research into generic probation practice and has been presented in a book Adult Probation and Juvenile Supervision : Beyond the Care-Control Dilemma ( 1989 , Gower ) . |
| 8 | Built in 1870 by Palmerston to ward off the French , this circular granite and steel stronghold which was never used for its original purpose , rises sheer from the sea bed , and has been converted into a James Bond style multi-millionaire 's private residence . |
| 9 | In each case the appellant has been found guilty of contempt of court and has been sentenced to a term of imprisonment . |
| 10 | GPSG is computationally economical and has been developed to a point where a large number of interesting syntactic phenomena may be dealt with in an integrated formal framework . |
| 11 | Kielder Water , the largest man-made reservoir in Europe , surrounded by the largest man-made forest in Europe , was opened by HM The Queen in June 1982 , and has been developed into a major water-sports centre . |
| 12 | Peter Harris who has cancer had been told last month he only had weeks to live and has been staying in a hospice . |
| 13 | The right hand colour choice box has disappeared and has been replaced with a new palette box that contains all the colours in the palette displayed . |
| 14 | The single , large , all-embracing , annually printed guide , covering all aspects of the library service , has largely disappeared , and has been replaced by a variety of new formats . |
| 15 | The money has been donated by Andrew Salvesen , former chief executive and chairman of the oil field services division of the Christian Salvesen Group , and has been matched by a £250,000 investment by Grampian Enterprise . |
| 16 | In the last chapter I described some of the iterative processes we carry out to try to ensure that the objective is clear , understood , and has been achieved with a large amount of involvement throughout the whole organization . |
| 17 | The other site has showed a commendably restrained policy in its charge levels for many years , and has been rewarded by a regular and large climbing clientele . |
| 18 | ( S. ) 320 , and has been applied in a number of subsequent decisions , such as Fleming and Dodge ( 1984 ) 6 Cr.App.R . |
| 19 | This status group — the establishment — emerged as an important social and political force during the nineteenth century and has been seen as a central element in the ‘ antique ’ or patrician' character of the British state … |
| 20 | It 's really come to the fore and has been seen as a political force for a much shorter time than , say , a hundred years , and I am wonder if , in that short time , because that 's how we can judge things , I mean presumably you were aware of the way women were treated before the Women 's Movement started raising it 's profile , and you 're aware of the way things are now , do you see much change ? |
| 21 | She is extremely distressed and has been seen by a police surgeon . |
| 22 | That structure of international regulation broke down in the 1970s and has been followed by a period of instability where it is uncertain whether US hegemony can be re-established or whether a different mode of regulation under Japanese or European domination will be constructed . |
| 23 | Davies v. Sumner is the leading authority on the meaning of the expression ‘ in the course of a business ’ and has been followed in a case under the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 , R. & B. Customs Brokers v. United Dominion Trust , where it was held that a business 's buying of two or three cars over a period of five years was an insufficient degree of regularity for the latest such purchase to be regarded as made in the course of the business ( see paragraph 10–18 above . ) |
| 24 | ‘ Weeks has been before the magistrates this morning and has been discharged without a stain on his character . |
| 25 | It comes from Japan , and has been identified in a forthcoming book , The machine that changed the world . |
| 26 | RHT has been largely developed by Wilde ( e.g. Wilde , 1982 , 1988 , 1989 ; Wilde & Murdoch , 1982 ) and has been offered as a model both of the effects of safety legislation on population accident statistics and of individual behaviour . |
| 27 | The conservatives at the Yard , who include the considerable figure of the Deputy Commissioner , John Dellow , believe that the Met has been reorganised quite enough recently and has been unsettled by a succession of commissioners , all with strong and mutually conflicting ideas . |
| 28 | The buildings referred to include Holmwood at Cathcart , which was built between 1857 and 1859 and has been described as a priceless national treasure . |
| 29 | This mishap may occur during laparoscopic surgery and has been described in a patient with advanced gallbladder cancer . |
| 30 | Trading giant Mitsubishi Corp has gained exclusive sales rights for Japan to the SNA ps5520 software package that connects the IBM Corp AS/400 used as a host with the Apple Computer Inc Macintosh as a client : the company already sells a similar package which connects IBM mainframes and Macs ; the software , as reported , was developed jointly by IBM and Apple , and has been localised by a Mitsubishi-related software house and the package will be sold through IBM Japan office systems dealers , Mac dealers and systems integrators ; the SNA ps3270 emulator is already installed on a trial basis at some 10 large companies , Mitsubishi says ; it looks to sell around 5,000 copies over the next year . |