Example sentences of "which it has been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From detailed descriptions of elements out of which it has been made . |
| 2 | We talk about decisions as if there was always a point in time before which the decision was not made arid after which it has been made . |
| 3 | That has been a reflection of the numerical constraints under which it has been operating . |
| 4 | A central concern must now be exactly that which was identified by Dent nearly 50 years ago — the ‘ threat to democracy ’ , which it has been argued is also present , although manifested in a different form , in the changes in the legal framework to the university sector . |
| 5 | Here we shall be looking rather more closely at changes within the state system itself , considering ways in which it has been restructured or , perhaps more accurately , was restructuring itself , in response to crisis . |
| 6 | However , there have been two modern instances in which it has been invoked by private individuals as part of a vendetta against their journalist-tormentors . |
| 7 | Illuminated from behind , it shows a complicated pattern of highlights ( where light is focused ) and dark regions ( from which it has been diverted ) . |
| 8 | The market is the mechanism which has traditionally been invoked to limit , control and thereby legitimate private power , whereas the mechanism by which it has been sought to control and justify the exercise of public power has traditionally been the ideal of the Rule of Law . |
| 9 | The left also has to draw itself out of the mire into which it has been plunged following the 1960s renaissance of Marxist ideas in the Labour movement . |
| 10 | The right to a trade mark can be assigned only in connection with the goodwill of the business concerned in the goods for which it has been registered , and comes to an end with that goodwill . |
| 11 | If we conduct an interventive experiment , and inject a drug which results in an animal not performing some task on which it has been trained ‘ correctly ’ ( I wo n't bother putting that word into inverted commas henceforward ; I have already spelled out that what we read as correct in an animal 's behaviour is interpreted by our criteria , not necessarily by its own ) , how can we be sure that what has been blocked or disturbed is the memory rather than the motor or sensory activity on which its expression depends ? |
| 12 | While it may not now be possible fully to recover their critique of mass culture from the totalizing force of its own negative rhetoric , it is at least possible to regret the ease with which it has been adopted as the convenient apostasy of a new rhetoric , operating as a kind of semaphore , signalling correct positions across great distances with a simplified and purely functional code . |
| 13 | This is the form in which it has been adopted in Czechoslovakia . |
| 14 | The polymerase chain reaction has been unquestionably unique , as new techniques go , in the speed with which it has been embraced by non-experts in most specialties of the biological sciences , including medicine . |
| 15 | In both cases it is important not to exaggerate the extent to which it has been implemented . |
| 16 | Their provision has , in any case , varied considerably between different parts of the country , and , because of the precise way in which it has been implemented , the Act has done little to increase the opportunities for rural recreation among the more deprived sections of the urban population . |
| 17 | It should be clear by now that this is n't the fault of desktop publishing , merely of the way in which it has been implemented . |
| 18 | Furthermore , we also need to keep in sight the fact that ‘ creativity ’ is itself an ambiguous concept , having been given various meanings and judged according to differing criteria depending on the context in which it has been studied . |
| 19 | Given the detail in which it has been decided the curriculum will be determined and assessed , these problems are inevitable . |
| 20 | Gould ) , and the House of Lords ( of which it has been asked whether we can continue to afford it as a court of ultimate resort in criminal law , a question prompted less by economics than by an expositor 's desire for consistency ) . |
| 21 | This is the case of Austria , for instance , of which it has been said that ‘ banished to insignificant social roles , Austrian federalism has taken on something of a folklore quality ’ . |
| 22 | What I have tried to say — namely that writing is not governed by the subjective intentions of its author , that ideas do not exist independently of the language which ‘ expresses ’ them — has ( inevitably ) been partially contradicted by the manner in which it has been said . |
| 23 | William Osborne 's project manager , Steve Answell , who was responsible for master-minding the nine-month building phase , commented ‘ The amount of detailed investigation and the thoroughness with which it has been done represents the most comprehensive thinking that has ever gone into a new lifeboat in all the thirty years I have been associated with building them . ’ |
| 24 | In the United States , it has been found that a diet very rich in unrefined high-fibre starch has caused remission of the disease in 85 per cent of the adult-onset diabetic patients on which it has been tested . |
| 25 | Understandably , the courts are more willing to review a decision because of the way in which it has been reached than because of its actual merits , or lack of them . |
| 26 | I have chosen to do this by reviewing the present position of the study of Romano-British coarse pottery , some of the processes by which it has been reached , the unsatisfactory nature of our present state of knowledge , and some thoughts directed towards the future . |
| 27 | For it will set aside a conviction whenever it appears unjust or unsafe to allow the verdict to stand because some failure has occurred in observing the conditions which , in the court 's view , are essential to a satisfactory trial , or because there is some feature of the case raising a substantial possibility that , either in the conclusion itself , or in the manner in which it has been reached , the jury may have been mistaken or misled . |
| 28 | " Off sale licence " which authorises the sale of liquor for consumption off the premises in respect of which it has been granted only . |
| 29 | The Bank publishes the total amount of this so called late assistance , although not the terms on which it has been granted . |
| 30 | Botticelli , works by Piero della Francesca and Andrea Mantegna and the museum 's most famous work , the Profile of a Young Lady by Antonio Pollaiolo , now used as a symbol of the Poldi-Pezzoli and a painting that adorns the face of many Milanese tourist brochures — including one on the city 's museums in which it has been reproduced the wrong way round ! |