Example sentences of "have been criticise " in BNC.
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| 1 | PROPOSALS from a right-wing pressure group to ban HIV-infected staff from working with food have been criticised by personnel chiefs in the industry . |
| 2 | Foreign publications have been criticised for alleged one-sided reporting and their correspondents have been denied visas . |
| 3 | The IRFU 's South African links have been criticised in the past , notably when Ireland toured there in 1981 amid a storm of public and governmental condemnation . |
| 4 | ‘ The police have been criticised for acting prematurely . |
| 5 | They have been criticised for the choice of colours associated with warfare , but up here in these hills surrounded by an army of uniformed police , US marshalls and private security guards all bristling with weapons , it is war : UMWA vice-president Cecil Roberts has said as much . |
| 6 | POOR work practices by British Airways maintenance engineers at Birmingham airport have been criticised in a report into an incident in which a pilot was nearly sucked out of his aircraft . |
| 7 | OFFICE equipment manufacturers have been criticised by Britain 's secretaries and office staff for badly-designed desks , tables , chairs and other items which have led to expensive clothing being ruined . |
| 8 | But these experiments have been criticised on two counts . |
| 9 | I have been criticised for being a distant figure who lives in a style of luxury that Britain can not afford . |
| 10 | I have been criticised for doing a job that is irrelevant in a society in which so many are struggling . |
| 11 | It is to be hoped that this will not deter commentators from making their contribution to the debate , particularly against the background of recent corporate scandals over which auditors have been criticised , often unfairly , and against a backcloth of rapid change in the ways of doing business generally . |
| 12 | I have been criticised for coming down on the side of the second alternative . |
| 13 | ‘ Myself and Emma have been criticised as being ‘ not as substantial as Courtney Love ’ , which is massively limiting . |
| 14 | These theories regarding the increasing use of compulsion have been criticised by Dingwall and his colleagues ( 1983 ) as lacking in authoritative statistical basis , and lacking any overview of the relative , as opposed to absolute , use of compulsory intervention . |
| 15 | Mergers of health authority-run services with trusts have been criticised by some opponents of the Government 's NHS reforms as obtaining trust status ‘ by the back door ’ . |
| 16 | Clinic surveys in Scotland , America , and Germany have failed to confirm an association but have been criticised for flaws in study design . |
| 17 | While its giant neighbours at Expo'92 , Britain and America , have been criticised for the lack of artistic content in their pavilions ( The Art Newspaper No. 17 , April 1992 , p. 1 ) , New Zealand with a comparatively tiny budget of NZ$39 million ( £12.07 million , US$21.19 million ) for its pavilion , is presenting a specially commissioned ceramics exhibition by fourteen artists , ‘ Treasures of the Underworld ’ and in the Pavilion of the Arts , an exhibition organised by the artists themselves , ‘ Distance Looks Our Way 10 Artists from New Zealand ’ ( 25 June–16 July ) . |
| 18 | His results have been criticised by Newton for underestimating the effects of city size on the proportion of Labour voters . |
| 19 | I hold the view very strongly — and I know I have been criticised for it — that when a government has not got great experience , is a minority government , it is essential if you can possibly support it that it should be able to speak with a strong voice to the countries of the world . |
| 20 | The various offences created by sections 1–5 of the 1986 Act have been criticised for imprecision . |
| 21 | But even the more sophisticated thinking concerning the competing claims of the curriculum , and the eight modes of activity , have been criticised . |
| 22 | They have been criticised on the grounds that they may deny free speech , suppress significant literature or worthwhile criminological information , impinge upon copyright laws and have negligible effects upon those who actually profit from crime . |
| 23 | Such approaches have been criticised for failing to take account of external or structural factors which influence people 's experience of ageing . |
| 24 | They have been criticised by both those who accept active government intervention in economic affairs and by those who do not . |
| 25 | It has been held that keeping a motor-car in a garage with petrol in the tank , and a motor-coach in a parking ground after the tank has been emptied is a non-natural use of land , but the decisions have been criticised . |
| 26 | The recommendation , and its ultimate partial acceptance , have been criticised on the grounds that lack of legal advice at an early stage may simply lead to disputes later on , to be resolved with the support of legal aid , and that the cost savings were unlikely to be substantial . |
| 27 | The police have been criticised for their low prosecution record in rape cases and it is most unlikely that domestic rape would have been dealt with more enthusiastically . |
| 28 | Certain of the Kings Quest series have been criticised as being too ‘ twee ’ and sugary — KQ VI is basically a ‘ fairy tale ’ but the storyline is much firmer than previous titles and avoids making the teeth grind and the stomach curdle ! |
| 29 | The OPCS surveys , on whose findings the benefit reforms were premised , have been criticised as significantly underestimating the extra costs of disability . |
| 30 | It should be no surprise that both variable analysis as a mode of sociological thinking and the use of scaling in research have been criticised . |