Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] been [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Council funding of an HCRC cultural centre and other projects has been cut off , and vacant staff posts frozen . |
| 2 | An infrastructure has been established for campaigning in the years to come : a Leader and some 30 distinguished Patrons have agreed to support the Campaign ; an initial portfolio of investment projects has been drawn up ; and the Alumni database , with an active list of some 25% of the graduate body , is now operational . |
| 3 | A network of contacts has been built up . |
| 4 | Other examples in economics are the promise of an investment subsidy at some future date to encourage firms to invest : when the future date occurs and the investments has been carried out it is tempting for the government to renege on its promise . |
| 5 | And contingency plans has been drawn up to relocate vital NIO departments to nearby government buildings in the event of a devastating bomb attack . |
| 6 | A new code of conduct for street entertainers has been drawn up by a local authority . |
| 7 | As uncertainty about the fate of commercial galleries grows , the burden of showing new artists has been picked up by unexpected agents . |
| 8 | This decentralization of the British population out of the cities has been brought about by a number of factors . |
| 9 | A committee of experts has been set up by the Russian Ministry of Culture to look into the problem of such articles within its borders . |
| 10 | At the suggestion of the European Community , which had been asked to mediate by the Czechoslovak and Hungarian governments , a panel of experts has been set up to assess the situation . |
| 11 | All the stuff 's back erm , food for the birds has been knocked over . |
| 12 | A first summit attempt by selected climbers has been pencilled in for between Friday and next Monday . |
| 13 | The need to carry out ‘ proper ’ audits has been spelled out to firms , and those that do not do so run the serious risk of losing their right to act as company auditors . |
| 14 | The pound 's decline since its unceremonious departure from the European exchange rate mechanism has seen the disappearance of the traditional premium paid for milk for liquid delivery , as the price of imported processed dairy products has been forced up . |
| 15 | The revival of small-scale farmhouses cheeses and the subsequent interest in these individual products has been brought about partly by the farmers ' need to cut the amount of milk that they send to the Milk Marketing Board and partly by the public 's demand for ‘ real ’ cheeses with traditional texture and flavour . |
| 16 | A steering group of representatives from different departmental divisions , local health authorities , and Chinese voluntary groups has been set up . |
| 17 | The situation at the moment in the field of research in homoeopathy is that much encouraging and interesting work demonstrating effects of homoeopathic potencies has been carried out in a wide variety of laboratory and clinical models . |
| 18 | Plans to dredge the top metre of sediment off the north Cornwall coast have been put forward by Marine Mining ; exploration drilling for deeper placer deposits in buried river channels has been carried out in Mount 's Bay and St Austell Bay . |
| 19 | ‘ There is evidence that the market in pubs , hotels and restaurants has been picking up — we believe it bottomed out six months ago — and that is another welcome move in bringing purchasers out again , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Throughout the 20th century biomedical and biological research on animals has been carried out in the University of Oxford . |
| 21 | Each of these Compacts has been offered up to £50,000 to set up a Compact structure . |
| 22 | The 90 minute lapse on large trades has been brought in largely because of smaller volumes and because market makers maintained that large trades would be almost impossible with instant publication . |
| 23 | A network of eight regional sites has been set up to provide long term monitoring of environmental change and its impact on the ecology of the UK . |
| 24 | Until 1976 the Commission had responsibility for England , Wales and Scotland , but thereafter its role in the latter countries has been taken over by the Welsh and Scottish Development Agencies ( Carney and Hudson 1978 , 1979 ) . |
| 25 | It has shot up in the recent hot sun , while the grass at the city 's other cemeteries has been burned off . |
| 26 | N H S Trusts has been going out of their way to recruit managers with experience in private profit sector . |
| 27 | Today 's new generation of black directors has been spurred on by two particular success stories . |
| 28 | Thus , further down the chain , demand for low-time pilots and ex-military aircrew has slumped and is not expected to pick up again until the pool of laid-off pilots has been used up , probably in a year 's time . |
| 29 | The Government can expect sustained flak on the wider constitutional issue now that this can of worms has been opened up . |
| 30 | The solution perceived by some libraries has been to bring in educational technologists to perform or assist with evaluation . |