Example sentences of "of [noun pl] has been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But while a sophisticated series of discourses has been developed to analyse the problems and conflicts in women 's experience , and especially the pain and anguish of women 's social , domestic , emotional , and sexual lives , the reasons why most women continue to define ourselves , and to practise as heterosexual have remained unexplored . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A broad spectrum of projects has been supported , including repair yards for fishing boats , bulb growing , hotels , craft industries and an aluminium smelter . |
| 5 | In periods of rapid expansion an increase in their own scale of operations has been paralleled by an expansion of output in smaller affiliated companies . |
| 6 | Two fundamental trends are at work : employee numbers are being gradually but drastically reduced — the Army alone is facing a 30 per cent by 1995 ; and all three services are coming to terms with their obligation to ‘ market test ’ support services with the result that a steady trickle of contracts has been going to the private sector since the early 80s . |
| 7 | A network of contacts has been built up . |
| 8 | Stubbs makes some effort to link the conventions for the use of writing to general linguistic characteristics of writing , but finds it difficult to establish any hard and fast rules since different cultures see different characteristics as significant and so a variety of literacies has been developed . |
| 9 | The company 's belief in growth from within ensures that , once the right calibre of personnel has been recruited , the opportunities for personal development within the company are enormous . |
| 10 | The result is that the townscape of houses has been spreading further outwards and now , in places , the rurban fringe of one town meets that of another . |
| 11 | Although a standardized set of rules has been formulated by WUKO , karate associations in countries outside their jurisdiction do not have to abide by them . |
| 12 | Whichever set of rules has been adopted , nothing in Article 15 prevents a court in the state of origin from taking , in case of urgency , any provisional or protective measures . |
| 13 | 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 . " |
| 14 | The determination of the MMD by conventional fractionation techniques is time consuming , and a rapid , efficient and reliable method which can provide a measure of the MMD in a matter of hours has been developed . |
| 15 | That oldest of disciplines has been neglected by 20th-century educationalists . |
| 16 | A series of meetings has been arranged throughout the city and Mrs. Ruth Wilson will attend the meeting to be held on Thursday 26th November in St. Cuthbert 's R.C. Primary School Hutchinson Crossway . |
| 17 | A series of meetings has been arranged throughout the city and Mrs. Ruth Wilson will attend the meeting to be held on Thursday 26th November in St. Cuthbert 's R.C. Primary School Hutchinson Crossway . |
| 18 | However , notation is never added to the schedules until the basic order of subjects has been determined . |
| 19 | In the ambience and tradition to which I am referring personality is defined in terms of breadth and contrast ; the effect is at once stereophonically-internal — a number of speakers has been installed , so to speak — and invasive . |
| 20 | Governments , however , have on occasions intervened in foreign exchange markets to influence their respective rates of exchange , although a greater variety of currencies has been used now that exchange rates are no longer pegged exclusively to the dollar . |
| 21 | Michael Porter , whose Competitive Advantage of Nations has been studied as much by political leaders as businessmen , now talks of the Porter ‘ brand ’ . |
| 22 | We like to think that the arrangement of books has been brought to a fine art , so it was good to hear the verdict of Evening News reporter Bob Watt that there was ‘ bookshop tranquillity ’ and that you could ‘ feel the order . ’ |
| 23 | A range of books has been launched which reflects his design philosophy and style . |
| 24 | This web of relationships has been called the role-set . |
| 25 | On the other hand , many people are quite prepared to concede that some animal or group of animals has been seen in the loch . |
| 26 | Once the correct order of probes has been established it is easy to fit the clones to this probe order , using an algorithm which essentially places each clone on that section of the probe order where it has the highest density of positives . |
| 27 | These measures will be fully explained to the Annual Conference of Presidents and Secretaries of Local Law Societies in London on Tuesday 19 January when John Appleby , Chairman of the Courts and Legal Services Committee , will present the package and call on the Government to withdraw its proposed eligibility cuts immediately now that an alternative package of savings has been agreed by the profession . |
| 28 | Once a group of supporters has been generated , it is time to get down to the actual project work . |
| 29 | A lead of sorts has been given by the national archives of north America with the Center for Electronic Records of the National Archives of the United States having already archived in access of 10,000 records or wearying size and complexity , and with the Canadians also pursuing an active of storing governmental records in machine-readable form ( National Archive 1991 ; National Historical Publications 1991 ) . |
| 30 | Perhaps the greatest mistake in the application of GIS has been to allow the glamour of the technology to distract attention from the more mundane , yet vital , aspects of data acquisition and verification . |