Example sentences of "have [been] [vb pp] through [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can my right hon. Friend find time during his busy day to congratulate the management and staff of Rover on the fact that over the past 12 months not one single minute of production time has been lost through industrial disputes ? |
| 2 | Much of the Committee and Department 's work has been done through joint bodies such as the JCT and the NJCC , CIC and BPIC , and the Architect 's Council of Europe , and this collaborative activity is expected to grown . |
| 3 | Trialling has been done through weekly after-school sessions , through whole staff conferences in school and weekend courses . |
| 4 | A functional system has been demonstrated through experimental results . |
| 5 | For the university sector a special intermediary body exists , the University Grants Committees and , apart from local authority representation on university governing bodies , there is no link with local governments For the rest of higher education — the polytechnics and colleges of higher education — the involvements , in most areas , of more than one local authority has been acknowledged through special arrangements to share management and pool costs . |
| 6 | A significant restructuring of the business has been achieved through substantial downsizing which has brought output and demand into line . |
| 7 | The safety statements of relevant Group companies reflect these obligations and the continued successful implementation of the safety statement policies has been maintained through systematic review . |
| 8 | Much of the sound has been produced through electronic ‘ treatment ’ . |
| 9 | Much of their industrialisation ( and infrastructure ) has been financed through external borrowing and by the establishment of plants belonging to multinational corporations . |
| 10 | Second , either as a result of his or her independent actions , or acting as a result of an objection by a member of the public , the auditor can seek redress in the courts when an item of account is contrary to the law , or where money has not been brought to account or loss has been incurred through wilful misconduct . |
| 11 | Andy has been put through absolute hell . ’ |
| 12 | Of course , the relevant question here will often be the extent to which the caveat emptor doctrine has been abrogated through legislative intervention in contracts of supply ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 13 | The strict approach , whereby in construing the effect of a purported exclusion clause everything was construed against the party in whose favour a term was included in the contract , the contra preferentem rule , has been mitigated through statutory intervention . |
| 14 | Mutually important issues such as Cambodian instability , the security of Taiwan and Hong Kong , and tensions on the Korean peninsula ( which may have prompted the visits ) could have been handled through diplomatic channels without resort to secrecy , Mr Winston Lord , US ambassador to China until this year , pointed out yesterday . |
| 15 | Bernard Baruch asserted that American aid should have been channelled through American businessmen to their European counterparts , so low was his opinion of the economic policies of governments . |
| 16 | The same words might have been spoken through tight lips by the old Taheb . |
| 17 | All these unfortunate factors could have been avoided through good education and adequate nutrition . |
| 18 | Save for costs on summons and for enforcing the award ( or such costs as are directed by the arbitrator to have been incurred through unreasonable conduct ) , no solicitor 's charges as between party and party are allowed in those arbitration proceedings which have been referred because the sum claimed or amount involved did not exceed £1,000 ( Ord 19 , r 6 ) . |
| 19 | Some of these livings they were certainly granted by the influence of English churchmen and the king , eager to retain representatives at the Curia , but the majority seem to have been acquired through papal provision : the pope was remunerating his servants out of the English church 's endowments , much to the growing fury of English patrons and politicians . |
| 20 | One possibility was that it was Roman material introduced when the drain walls had collapsed , for the drain had been cut through Roman deposits . |
| 21 | it was a symbol of the new mood in the country that ordinary people wanted to participate in politics whereas in the past protest had been expressed through local guerrilla risings and religious demonstrations . |
| 22 | Careful analysis of the electoral results showed that the ALP 's narrow victory — its majority in the House of Representatives fell from 18 to eight and it suffered a negative swing of almost 2 per cent — had been achieved through skilful targeting of marginal constituencies and preference voters . |
| 23 | Of these , around 13,900 had been infected through male homosexual activity , 2,000 through drug use and 6,500 through heterosexual activity . |
| 24 | Secondly , the case became representative of the whole thrift scandal , where the newly deregulated savings and loan industry had been pillaged through ruthless speculation and outright fraud . |
| 25 | The near surface layers of practical supported catalysts have been studied through low energy ion scattering by making use of the high surface sensitivity and ion beam sputtering to obtain monolayer ‘ depth profiles ’ . |
| 26 | Sections have been cut through well-preserved coral in limestone . |
| 27 | Mineralogical composition of the rocks , reservoir and shales , have been obtained through thin section , SEM photographs and X-ray analysis studies . |
| 28 | They have been selected through prior quantitative analysis of surveys in these areas , an analysis identifying those particular individuals who have been very active in national and/or public life . |
| 29 | Again some instincts have been developed through long continued and inherited habits . |
| 30 | Additionally , the zones have not created industrial dereliction , and properties vacated by tenants moving to the zones have been re-occupied through normal filtering processes . |