Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been [verb] in " in BNC.

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1 A BRITON suspected of trying to sell Saddam Hussein enough plutonium for 15 nuclear bombs has been arrested in Germany .
2 By far the most extensive research into the relationship between society and mass consumption objects has been conducted in the world of commerce itself , and its offshoots in marketing and advertising , which are strongly linked to the discipline of economics .
3 The method of tracing cases has been explained in Chapter 3 .
4 A dissociation between these two scripts has been observed in Japanese aphasics ( Sasanuma , 1975 ) and in a patient with alexia and agraphia .
5 This is another attempt to waste parliamentary time — already 280 hours has been wasted in this way in the past two decades . ’
6 ‘ On a lighter note , the Battle of the Bands in Fairport , Rhode Island , during which heavy metal groups Deathtongue and the Mothers of Violence played simultaneous sets in the same auditorium for thirty-eight straight hours has been resolved in single combat between the rival lead singers .
7 The automatic recognition of word meanings has been demonstrated in a number of experimental investigations .
8 Ethanol induced fragility of pancreatic lysosomes has been observed in the absence of any morphologic evidence of pancreatic damage making it unlikely that it is a secondary phenomenon .
9 Much detailed information about the vibration frequencies of different electronic states of diatomic molecules and some simple polyatomic molecules has been obtained in this way .
10 But once some set of rules has been established in this way , we might well think it more important that these rules be publicly regarded as settled , so that people can plan accordingly , than that they be the best rules that could have been found ; this provides a reason why courts should leave the rule untouched even when they think the wrong choice was made in the first instance . "
11 Support for these views has been sought in the small , variable , pleural sclerites of the Apterygote insects , though recent work on these by Manton ( 1972 ) has cast serious doubt on the subcoxal theory .
12 The pension offered to widows has been cut in half .
13 The decay of Britain 's roads has been reflected in a sharp increase in central government 's spending on road maintenance .
14 Integrated modelling of gravity and magnetic data along the Fennolora and Polar profiles has been completed in collaboration with colleagues in Denmark and Sweden as part of the European Geotraverse Project .
15 Although age and sex did not influence the results , enhanced synthesis of lipoxygenase products has been reported in the synovial fluid and tissue of patients with rheumatoid arthritis or spondyloarthritis and it is possible that this was a confounding variable .
16 The boundary between the Southern Highland and Argyll groups has been mapped in detail , the work being facilitated by the presence of two marker lithologies , a kyanite-magnetite schist and a green mica ( ? phengite ) quartzite .
17 Research on the subject of control system design using H- infinity methods has been supported in academia by SERC since 1984 .
18 Evidence of similar methods has been found in Japanese , Chinese , Egyptian , Roman and Greek cultures .
19 Since Labov first developed his quantitative methods , a very wide range of different speaker variables has been examined in relation to patterns of variation , and indeed these methods can be used wherever a speaker characteristic is capable of being expressed numerically .
20 It is the second time this year one of his drivers has been hijacked in protests at British exports and the Gatt world trade deal .
21 Transient hypochlorrhydria because of H pylori in acutely infected subjects has been noted in studies that included healthy volunteers .
22 Yet almost exactly the same phenomenon of rising wealth matched by falling savings has been occurring in the US , as the second graph shows .
23 ONE of the principal components of the German question , and of the entire European situation , is the recognition of the fact that the question of European borders has been solved in a definitive and irrevocable manner .
24 There is sixteenth-century orthographic evidence , which we shall further discuss in chapter 5 , that suggests some distribution of low vowel realizations for /Ε/; in London English of the period : it seems possible that this pattern of lowering of historic short vowels has been overtaken in recent standard English and Central Scots by a pattern of raising and ( in the latter case ) lengthening .
25 Intrahepatic expression of pre-S1 and pre-S2 proteins has been studied in patients with chronic hepatitis B virus infection , but the results still remain controversial .
26 Of course , the United Nations has been engaged in the exercise of sanctions against those who perpetrate excesses .
27 On the other hand , many people are quite prepared to concede that some animal or group of animals has been seen in the loch .
28 ‘ I believe the importance of genetic influences has been diminished in the amount of work that has been done on environmental influences .
29 The sale of non-prescription drugs promoted as aphrodisiacs has been banned in the US from January 8 , 1990 .
30 THE body of a 67-year-old man missing for nine months has been found in woodland at Maesnewydd Farm , Talybont , near Aberystwyth .
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