Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] an area " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scats may be accumulated outside den entrances ( Poole , 1970 ) , and a very large assemblage of polecat scats has been collected from an area less than two metres square outside a den in Rhosgogh Bog in mid-Wales . |
| 2 | Finally , I should like to ask the Secretary of State what progress has been made in an area where I believe it would be sensible to take action . |
| 3 | I think it is erm Greater York that has been seen as an area with special problems because of its er historic character , erm which we spent many hours debating at the York greenbelt local plan inquiry , and I think most participants there accepted that the er what was being protected was not just the historic core , but also the setting of York and its surrounding ring of villages , and the way which it is proposed to protect that setting and character is by a greenbelt , now it follows that if you are imposing extremely severe restrictions on new development in an area around a settlement , then you have to meet the legitimate development needs for that settlement in another location , the further away that new settlement or other policy response is located it seems to me the less likely it is to meet the er needs of that settlement , and that will give rise to erm , you know , additional pressures on the settlement you are proposing to protect and maybe those pressures could not be resisted , and I think that 's why there is this requirement that erm the development which might otherwise be built on the edge of York , but which is not proposed to be so built because of the greenbelt needs to be located close , as close to York as is consistent with the original environmental objectives greenbelt objectives for the greenbelt . |
| 4 | A disused shop has been turned into an area where shoppers can give any evidence that they might think useful . |
| 5 | In May 1990 the FAO launched an appeal for $85,000,000 to eradicate the New World screwworm ( Cochliomyia homnivorax ) , a large fly of South American origin which had been detected over an area of 18,000 sq km in Libya . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , hundreds more job losses have been announced in an area which has already suffered heavily from the recession . |
| 7 | In the Late Period the vast catacombs for the burial of mummified ibises had been constructed in an area of Third Dynasty officials ' mastaba tombs , to the north of the Step Pyramid of Djoser . |
| 8 | As well as being neglected in popular entertainment , this type of crime has also been neglected as an area of study . |
| 9 | The Lake District in particular has been pinpointed as an area ripe for the picking . |
| 10 | It has created 1,900 jobs but during the same period over 800 existing jobs have been lost in an area which lies at the heart of three parliamentary constituencies with some of the highest unemployment rates in Britain . |
| 11 | At least one RAFALO has been elected to an Area Council . |