Example sentences of "[conj] has been [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Quantity in this sense , duration , is what musicians and musical composers are continually concerned with ; and so it is not surprising that poets of this way of thinking , like Pound and Bunting , show themselves avidly interested in poetry which has been , not at a level of theory but as a fact of performance , intimately associated with music : poetry that has been set , or has been written in the hope of being set , to music . |
| 3 | Certiorari quashes a decision which is found to be invalid because it is outside the powers granted to the court or tribunal ( ultra vires ) , or has been given in proceedings in which the principles of natural justice were not observed , or where there has been an error of law on the face of the record . |
| 4 | Or has been going in the past , and violence obviously can result in serious injury or at least death . |
| 5 | For all the ingenuity that has been exercised in studying remaining ships and portrayals of ships in the light of expert modern knowledge — in the building and sailing of replicas and all manner of ingenious devices — it still remains true that we are tempted to judge early medieval navigation mainly from a handful of second-hand boats ready for retirement , which were thus thought suitable for burial . |
| 6 | Basically , every compliment that has been chucked in Suede 's direction during the past ten minutes the band wholeheartedly , erm , agree with . |
| 7 | Any precious metal that has been manufactured in some way , including coins used for ornament . |
| 8 | When I 'm running , I feel like I am a machine , like a new car that has been run in well . |
| 9 | If would-be choreographers examine Ashton 's The Dream they will discover the significant development that has been made in the structure of the old kind of romantic ballet . |
| 10 | Drug testing also may disproportionally victimise members of racial minority groups whose subcultures sanction casual marijuana smoking , reversing much of the progress that has been made in eliminating employment discrimination . |
| 11 | Let us think for a few moments of the wonderful achievements of the human race — the towns that have been built , the works of art that have been produced — the books , plays , films , pictures , music … the progress that has been made in science and technology . |
| 12 | In Britain also , there is recognition that the progress that has been made in the last fifteen years in increasing the pool of professionally-trained social workers must be matched by similar efforts to upgrade the skills of the paraprofessional work force if the quality of social service provision is to be adequate . |
| 13 | He began by commenting on the dramatic progress that has been made in the understanding of both tropospheric and stratospheric chemical processes during the past 20 years . |
| 14 | I think also we have to look at how we share the progress that has been made in the statutory services with the people in private care . |
| 15 | In this way , I hoped that most people would be able to share in the excitement and feeling of achievement in the remarkable progress that has been made in physics in the last twenty-five years . |
| 16 | I have already explained , I think three times , in the hearing of President Delors why this Government are not prepared to put at risk the striking progress that has been made in industrial relations in this country since 1979 . |
| 17 | In view of the congestion on motorways and major trunk roads , do not those figures still fall short of what is necessary and desirable , despite the improvement that has been made in the past three years ? |
| 18 | I beg to move , That this House welcomes the great progress that has been made in employment and the reduction of strikes since 1979 and condemns the employment policies of the Labour Party , particularly its proposals to encourage strikes , to accept every aspect of the European Commission 's Social Action Programme and to impose a national statutory minimum wage , all of which would significantly increase burdens on British employers , undermine competitiveness and destroy jobs . |
| 19 | Part of the progress that has been made in our area has been the establishment of the Shropshire training and enterprise council . |
| 20 | The start that has been made in Shrewsbury , however , is extremely encouraging for my constituency and for the people of Shropshire in general . |
| 21 | The reason I shall vote against the motion and for the amendment could n't have been put more succinctly than it was by Mr , I think Mr made the most pertinent remark that has been made in the debate today , when in opposition to what Mr said about individual freedom he said this is a matter of personal conscience . |
| 22 | ‘ Let's at least try to solve the immediate problem with a practical step that has been proven in other parts of the country , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Does not the right hon. Gentleman realise that there will be outrage tonight in my constituency and in that of my hon. Friend the Member for Falkirk , East ( Mr. Ewing ) at his betrayal of the trust that has been placed in that hospital by the people in its care ? |
| 24 | The detailed information that my hon. Friend requires can be found in documentation that has been placed in the Library . |
| 25 | All he can commit himself to is undoing everything that has been achieved in the past three years . |
| 26 | It will require the sort of active co-operation in peace that has been displayed in the war by the United Nations coalition . |
| 27 | In other words , their natural history does not fit with the explanation that has been repeated in textbooks for decade after decade . |
| 28 | The convergence of geopolitical events , of the consequences of the technology that has been fermenting in the post-war years , of new ideologies , of government processes are of a scale and significance unprecedented for half a century . |
| 29 | Thus , from the late 1970s parts of Sheffield began , very rapidly , to experience that deterioration of the economic fabric that has been felt in other parts of the county of South Yorkshire for much longer ( Walker 1981 ) . |
| 30 | This is the approach that has been adopted in the past but , particularly in the non-business area , it has yielded markedly different conclusions . |