Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The subdivision of mansi into fractions documented in some polyptychs has been held to suggest the pressure of rising population on land-holding , and evidence of land-clearance and the extension of the cultivated area could point the same way . |
| 32 | Although the take up in some areas has been poorer than expected in the programme , which is now into its second year , research into changes in working practices and attitudes has been assessed . |
| 33 | The algebraic structure of these transformations has been analysed by Geroch ( 1972 ) . |
| 34 | In the past the doubt felt by some about the existence of great sequences of high-level eroded plateau surfaces has been reinforced by problems of explaining the possible basic causes of the vast changes in base level required . |
| 35 | Betrayed if published as a £5.99 , B format paperback ; Bloomsbury says that most if its first print run of 15,000 copies has been subscribed . |
| 36 | A network of contacts has been built up . |
| 37 | One in ten jobs in LASMO 's UK operations has been cut , affecting nearly 50 employees in the London-based regional offices , the North Sea operation and some head office departments . |
| 38 | Teesside Operations has been praised for entering the ‘ lion 's den ’ in its campaign to improve communications with the local community . |
| 39 | In periods of rapid expansion an increase in their own scale of operations has been paralleled by an expansion of output in smaller affiliated companies . |
| 40 | Her daughter , Lucy Packer ( 1970 ) besides mothering three sons has been appointed Head of Personnel at the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food . |
| 41 | A MOTHER fighting for custody of her two young sons has been ordered to hand them back to her estranged American husband from whom she fled a month ago . |
| 42 | The name of a possible volunteer from the Lothian Association of Youth Clubs has been received . |
| 43 | The name of a possible volunteer from the Lothian Association of Youth Clubs has been received . |
| 44 | Historically , the minimum subscription Association 's affiliated organizations and clubs has been set that twice the personal member 's subscription and after a period of two years ' grace it 's the Council 's wish that this balance is re-established so that the relativity returns to that which existed prior to the increase in subscriptions that was proposed at the A G M in nineteen ninety one . |
| 45 | Rogues and Vagabonds has been devised and 'll be compered by Michael Meyer , and stars Edward Fox , Dorothy Tutin and Freddie Jones , and it 's all for a good cause . |
| 46 | Also , a bed containing heathers and low-growing conifers has been established . |
| 47 | The method of tracing cases has been explained in Chapter 3 . |
| 48 | But in recent years the wisdom of fostering in all cases has been questioned and the merits of a less emotionally demanding atmosphere , which a home can provide , have been increasingly accepted . |
| 49 | This passage from Turnbull & Co. v. Duval is important because it is the foundation stone on which the ‘ agency ’ approach adopted by the recent cases has been built . |
| 50 | The problem is that the additional task has sometimes been found to facilitate performance in the visual field opposite the supposedly activated hemisphere and in other cases has been found to impair performance . |
| 51 | AN EXCESS of leukaemia cases has been found among children in rural parts of Scotland linked to the growth of the North Sea oil industry . |
| 52 | A host of new cases has been added . |
| 53 | FOR the first time in decades a litter of two ocelot kittens has been born at London Zoo . |
| 54 | A letter alleging offers of preferential inducements has been handed to the EC 's competition commissioner , Karl Van Miert . |
| 55 | A dissociation between these two scripts has been observed in Japanese aphasics ( Sasanuma , 1975 ) and in a patient with alexia and agraphia . |
| 56 | Whether light as well as heat is generated in these reactions has been questioned by some critics . |
| 57 | THE action of alkali metals and their oxides as promoters for many catalytic reactions has been known for nearly a century . |
| 58 | Over recent years there has been increasing interest in these widely distributed and biologically important compounds , and their importance in platelet biochemistry and platelet-vessel wall interactions has been emphasised . |
| 59 | That oldest of disciplines has been neglected by 20th-century educationalists . |
| 60 | A. otteri has been recorded from both sides of the North Atlantic . |