Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] have [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile a number of less formalised groups have been formed to advise on physical disability , learning difficulties ( separate groups for users and carers ) and HIV/AIDs . |
| 2 | Bowel scintigraphy using Indium-111 labelled leucocytes has been applied to the assessment of disease extent and activity in Crohn 's disease . |
| 3 | Measurement of faecal excretion of Indium-111 labelled leucocytes has been used to assess disease activity and has been shown to effectively distinguish active from quiescent Crohn 's disease and to correlate with other clinical and laboratory activity indices . |
| 4 | This will be most successful if advance preparation has been carried out . |
| 5 | The lambing had begun and the sheep 's tousled fleece had been shorn to a jagged grey stubble . |
| 6 | Mr FREEDMAN adds : ‘ The hazards of playgrounds to young children are well recognised , and among other measures , absorbent surfaces have been recommended to help reduce the severity of injuries . |
| 7 | Two more private estates have been built and the proportion of commuters has risen sharply . |
| 8 | LIFESPAN-to-LIFESPAN messages Usually messages indicating that some requested function has been completed . |
| 9 | The government has so far been equivocal about the resources to be made available , but it is significant that the Griffiths proposal for a specific grant has been rejected , except in the case of the mentally ill . |
| 10 | Realization and distribution of partnership assets will occur after the dissolution has been brought into effect and all outstanding debts have been settled . |
| 11 | The builder 's surveyor will be unable to certify payments to the various nominated subcontractors until after the interim certificate has been received from the architect . |
| 12 | Where creating UK income is not an immediate concern , the usual response has been to put the intangible into a tax haven and charge royalties from there . |
| 13 | Various criteria evaluating the outcome of regional policies have been used . |
| 14 | Although their significance as regional political institutions has been undermined — in the case of water authorities by proposals for privatization and in the case of health authorities by a series of financial and managerial initiatives which have encouraged a shift towards private sector ( market-type ) decision-making ( Pollitt , Harrison , Hunter and Marnoch , 1988 ) — there has been a growth in regional state institutions in other policy areas . |
| 15 | The eight-year-old Ian had been talking in class all through a painting lesson . |
| 16 | There is much to celebrate : thousands of rural clinics have been built , and programmes established to spread information about hygiene and sanitation . |
| 17 | The premiums for standard cover and accidental damage have been reduced by 7% in respect of buildings cover and 10% in respect of contents cover for members in the Republic of Ireland . |
| 18 | Further off in that direction , on the site of the modern village of Makroteichos , there were Minoan houses and traces of Minoan houses have been found as far north as Palaiomilo , some 600 metres north of the temple precinct : beyond this area was the northern cemetery of Zafer Papoura . |
| 19 | Following the creation of the National Heritage Memorial Fund , several outstanding houses have been saved with their contents and handed to the National Trust . |
| 20 | Significant levels of trading went on outside this inner area , and scattered finds of Minoan products have been made as far west as the Lipari Islands off the coast of Italy , as far north as Troy ( stone lamps ) , and as far east as Egypt and Syria , where Minoan vases made of precious metal have been found . |
| 21 | By last night , six oil-soaked birds had been found and taken to an RSPCA shelter at Fareham , Hampshire . |
| 22 | While the latter seems the most likely cause in many blends where specific interactions have been identified , miscible blends can also be obtained when certain statistical copolymers are mixed with either a homopolymer , or another copolymer , in which no such interactions have been located . |
| 23 | By 1981 the artist was using photographic imagery as if it was purely graphic material , as if the literal meanings had been dissolved in a solution of ideas and metaphors — except that the half-tone dots from newsprint were emphatically part of the image . |
| 24 | The independent commission established by the government to investigate and audit funds and property of former East German parties and political groups had been hindered in its work by shortage of staff and lack of co-operation from the affected organizations . |
| 25 | The dual responsibilities , to the employer and to the profession , remain problematic : the professional response has been to offer on-line access to ethical guidance . |
| 26 | ‘ But the important thing at this stage is that the right decision has been made for the athletes . |
| 27 | A seven-fathom section of the mooring cable had been removed and replaced with much lighter chain which then gave way during the next storm . |
| 28 | Howard Wilkinson , the manager who has revived a slumbering Yorkshire giant , offered a brave if predictable public stance — ‘ We 're not throwing in the towel … if we win our last five matches it could be interesting ’ — but privately he must realise that an outstanding opportunity has been lost . |
| 29 | The purchaser will be negotiating the heads from a position of weakness in that it will know far more about the vendor 's business once the due diligence has been completed . |
| 30 | Nutritional experts have been criticized in the past for expressing themselves so strongly on this point , but they are unrepentant . |