Example sentences of "been [verb] [conj] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , it has been recognized that such concessions can , if applied fairly and without discrimination , aid the efficient administration of the tax system . |
| 2 | Its success has been limited because some children will work on projects which interest them but which do not tax them sufficiently . |
| 3 | In every one of the cases to which your Lordships have been referred where such dicta appear , the source from which the evidence sought to be excluded had been obtained has been the defendant himself or ( in some of the search cases ) premises occupied by him ; and the dicta can be traced to a common ancestor in Lord Goddard 's statement in Kuruma v. The Queen [ 1955 ] A.C. 197 which I have already cited . |
| 4 | The educational background and training of chartered librarians in Britain has not been well understood by teachers , and in particular it has been noticeable how reluctant spokesmen of the School Library Association have been to acknowledge that some librarians have received a special training in work with children of school age , with materials for children of school age , and involving more than an acquaintance with the study of educational systems and methods and of child development . |
| 5 | Many miles of film have been exposed and several forests felled to supply the paper to print the wit and wisdom of Hannah Hauxwell . |
| 6 | However , it has been claimed that some doctors in the province will perform abortions in certain circumstances . |
| 7 | These include the purposes for which the product has been manufactured and any instructions or warnings with respect to doing or refraining from doing anything in relation to the product . |
| 8 | Geoffrey Ross comments ‘ It has been noticed that many men wash their hair in water that is too hot ( which over-stimulates the sebaceous glands and so makes the scalp greasier than it should be ) and are rough-actioned with the towel when drying the hair . |
| 9 | It has now been decided that both clubs will play on the Wednesday with 7.45 kick-offs . |
| 10 | Initially it had been felt that some families failed to take advantage of the services offered by the welfare state and , despite the basic social services , they fell into poverty and sickness , remained ignorant of the skills and attitudes needed to cope with life and failed to find accommodation for themselves . |
| 11 | It has also been said that such activities can help to raise the general level of energy of members of the household , the depletion of which may often show itself as a succession of minor illnesses . |
| 12 | It has been said that few revolutions have been so complete in the British countryside as the start and end of the railway age . |
| 13 | It has been said that these rules will be applied less stringently to a commercial contract than to other types of document ( Henry Boot Construction v Central Lancashire New Town Development Corpn ( 1980 ) 15 BLR 8 ) but the drafter should bear them in mind and , if possible , avoid their application . |
| 14 | For some time it has been suspected that these voltages affect aquarium fish , causing stress and possibly disease . |
| 15 | Although laser gain has been observed at a shorter wavelength — 18–2 nanometres by Geoff Pert 's group at the University of Hull — no claims have been made that those experiments produced coherent light ; the emission included radiation generated by other processes . |
| 16 | Over a period some mistakes had been made and several members of the Committee were not in full agreement , but if ideas and plans were to be achieved there was bound to be hard talking at Meetings . |
| 17 | Nevertheless an important start has been made and some students are being exposed to a segment of African literature . |
| 18 | Restrictions on parent/child contact have been imposed and these decisions have been backed by the threat of court proceedings . |
| 19 | Whilst it has been argued that such firms need financial and general business aid , if they are to fulfil their potential on a timely basis , little is known of their accounting/financial practices and needs . |
| 20 | It has been argued that such courses come somewhere around the foundation or specific stage in most people 's educational development , although the increasing proportions of mature students must make us wary of too linear a model . |
| 21 | Not only is there a lack of research evidence to support this view , but it has been argued that many children do better remaining in a single-parent family than in having to make further adjustments to a third form of family life — the step-family ( Richards and Dyson , 1982 ) . |
| 22 | It has been argued that these policies were adopted at Moscow 's instigation . |
| 23 | Technical difficulties aside , it has been argued that these provisions will not make any appreciable difference to the welfare of victims for , except in the most notorious of cases , most authors receive very small amounts indeed from publication . |
| 24 | It has been argued that these divisions within the working class are unreconcilable and prevent it acting as a strong , united , radical force . |
| 25 | Question 1 of the additional questions will reveal whether or not the road has been adopted and all charges paid . |
| 26 | Staff at UCCA say the fault has now been corrected but all applications made before November are being double checked . |
| 27 | During a 17-month-long crackdown on burglary across London detectives have been told that many thieves use the drivers for shifting hi-fis , televisions and videos . |
| 28 | ‘ What is even more disturbing , ’ the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US Congress said in a letter to Dr Banda dated 3 April , ‘ we have been told that several members of the Malawi Congress Party have called for the bishops ' death by an orchestrated mob . ’ |
| 29 | The inference has been drawn that these tenures , often ( though not necessarily ) on land newly cleared from forest or heath , were offered by landlords as an inducement to tenants to extend their operations , whether through crop-growing or animal husbandry . |
| 30 | It has been shown that such listings have a substantial effect on the way in which previous research is used . |