Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This week news comes from Australia that this technique has been taken a stage further ( p 271 ) . |
| 2 | WOOD GROUP Fire Protection has been awarded a contract to design , engineer and supply two low pressure C02 fire protection systems to protect gas turbine sets provided by John Brown Engineering for the new Keadby power station at Scunthorpe . |
| 3 | But the manager CastleCourt , Belfast 's best known glass complex , says his building has been given the all-clear following tests . |
| 4 | The Empire State Building has been moved a few blocks uptown . |
| 5 | This may occur at the exposed soil surface as raindrops selectively erode fine clay particles , leaving heavier sand particles : with time this process can affect deeper parts of the soil profile , impairing its water-retaining capacity to such an extent that even after agriculture has been abandoned the forest may be unable to recolonise . |
| 6 | Mitsubishi Electric Corp has been granted a provisional double-A-3 rating for a shelf registration in Japan for the equivalent of $860m of debt , citing its market positions as Japan 's third largest integrated electric and electronics manufacturer , its sound financial condition , solid profit margins , and its expected strong cash flows arising from its well-diversified business lines , for the rating . |
| 7 | Multi-processors seem to be the flavour of the day at the moment and IBM Corp has been promising a multi-processing addition to its RS/6000 line for some time , so it 's not too surprising that we hear it 'll announce one in around six weeks for delivery later in the year . |
| 8 | Locus Computing Corp has been given a grant by the US National Science Foundation to investigate system software optimised for networked portable computers . |
| 9 | The Cupertino , California-based MicroModule Systems Inc management buyout from Digital Equipment Corp has been given a $1.2m US Advanced Research Projects Agency subcontract to build a series of DEC Alpha RISC-based multichip modules using diamond substrates . |
| 10 | Microsoft Corp has been banging the drum for its forthcoming Windows New Technology operating system in Europe and says it has won ‘ broad support ’ for it from ICL Plc , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA and Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG . |
| 11 | Unisys Corp has been lifting the curtain a little on its plans for the Unix-based U6000 range , as it boosted the power of its 486-based 6000/35 model by adding a 66MHz chip last week . |
| 12 | One of our little birds claims IBM Corp has been negotiating the sale of its PC division . |
| 13 | NCR Corp has been demonstrating an enhanced version of its Co-operation environment at UniForum in San Francisco , and says that it provides enhanced scalable , enterprise-wide support , including broadened server scalability ; enhanced desktop capabilities ; single point , local or remote , system administration ; access to object-based frameworks ; updated versions of all third-party components including Windows 3.1 and Hewlett-Packard Co 's NewWave 4.1 ; access to the Informix database ; and improved diary , mail and information access . |
| 14 | Microsoft Corp has been talking a little more about its planned Cairo — now called Windows Cairo — object-oriented operating system , and far from being a distant prospect , it looks as if it will come hard on the heels of Windows NT , with a professional developers ' kit available as soon as early next year according to the late Systems & Network Integration . |
| 15 | However , once printed text has been photocopied a few times , or faxed , or degraded in some other way , the characters can become similarly indistinct . |
| 16 | Two organisations have now managed to set up clearing facilities enabling them to dispense hard currency in Moscow : Credobank , a Moscow-based commercial bank , began offering cash advances to Visa card holders from early March and American Express has been offering a limited service to its card holders from its Moscow representative office ; Credobank has an on-line connection to a London clearing centre to check all cards — the connection was organised by Sprint Networks ; the bank also plans to offer cash service in some Moscow hotels . |
| 17 | The new chart has been given the thumbs up by Food Records Andy Ross , whose acts ( including Blur and Jesus Jones ) are exempt from the current chart . |
| 18 | In some cases , such as the BBC 's , though damage has been done the library , surviving still , has critical mass and is usable . |
| 19 | JEREMY Irons ' latest movie Damage has been given an adults-only rating by American censors . |
| 20 | The decision has been called a whitewash of the Vichy regime . |
| 21 | How can Unionism possibly survive when Protestant and Catholic are no longer at each other 's throats , when discrimination has been dealt a body-blow ? … |
| 22 | Once sample preparation has been completed the simplest analyses may be performed on the largest particles . |
| 23 | The study looked at all areas of the natural environment , including the management of the diverse grasslands and associated rare species , for which the Park has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest . |
| 24 | Bletchley Park has been called a menagerie , and in the variety and eccentricity of its inhabitants , so it was . |
| 25 | The Yorkshire Dales National Park has been awarded a European Commission grant of more than £50 000 to help conserve the traditional Dales farming landscape . |
| 26 | In any starting position , when the basis for change has been created the decision as to which stage should be contemplated is the key one . |
| 27 | OVER the past few days , The Scotsman has been examining the evidence for a so-called ‘ moral crisis ’ in Britain . |
| 28 | The Sensors and Instrumentation Department ( SID ) from RS 's Safety and Engineering Systems Division has been awarded a second re-instrumentation contract for Nuclear Electric at Hinkley Point A. |
| 29 | In the best Lowden tradition the entire guitar has been given a matt ‘ wire-wool ’ type finish and again , like all Lowdens , it has a very hefty-looking top — almost twice as thick as those of some other makers . |
| 30 | Perhaps the main defence has been to construct an imagined community of resistance which cuts across all internal divisions by emphasizing the levelling effects of racist oppression . |