Example sentences of "[been] raised [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Such questions have been raised over the investments of Goldman Sachs 's Water Street Fund in the bonds of Tonka and of JCI .
2 Bonaventure with a cheque for £8,000 , which had been raised over the years by the people of Hemlington for their centre .
3 Official standards of overcrowding have been raised over the years with the result that comparisons become difficult .
4 Huge sums have been raised over the years to build and fund the unit but that 's of little comfort to the main hospital today .
5 The second session of Parliament , which began on 9 November , saw an attack on the standing army , the Commons refusing to vote supply for the additional forces that had been raised over the summer , and instead resolving to bring in a bill to reform the militia .
6 Fears have been raised about a reduction in manpower , and we should like to explore the matter further .
7 Doubts have already been raised about the cost of the proposals , about possible legal difficulties and about shareholders ' willingness to play the role assigned to them by the APB .
8 In the past , questions have been raised about the publication of financial reports and the accountability of the UKCC for its use of funds to those who supply them .
9 Some serious steps had been taken towards that outburst of anticlericalism and , in particular , antipapalism which marked the later fourteenth century : suspicions had been raised about the church 's landed wealth and envy of it had been fanned ; resentment against the papacy — by the clergy as well as by the laity — was growing ; above all parliament was providing an assembly where hostility could be orchestrated , diffused and preserved .
10 This is not the place to embark upon detailed discussion of possible schemes for grading sexual assaults , but questions have been raised about the exclusion from the English offence of rape of oral and anal intercourse and penetration of the vagina by other objects .
11 Many questions have been raised about the issues , including the opportunities for interagency co-operation , the methods of crime investigation and repression , the regulation of police accountability , and the protection of civil rights .
12 Yet , serious doubts have been raised about the soundness and adequacy of the FBL 's insurance coverage .
13 Many more questions have been raised about the adequacy of such historical antecedents , but in a sense it is more pertinent to ask how such ideas and practices have survived the rapid changes that went with the industrialization of Japan after the 1870s .
14 Questions have frequently been raised about the effect upon indigenous paraprofessionals of the training that is provided for them .
15 Another concern which has been raised about the validity of intraluminal recordings is that the bowel evacuation which is used to facilitate placing the probe may alter contractile patterns .
16 Further doubts have been raised about the future of the THORP reprocessing plant at Sellafield by the Japanese authorities ' decision to abandon plutonium transports by sea [ see above ] and to scale down their nuclear-energy programme .
17 Concern has been raised about the costs of regulation .
18 It was hoped that over £100,000 would have been raised through the day 's efforts .
19 Second , the profile and responsibilities of management had been raised through the introduction of general management throughout the service .
20 Considerable problems have been raised through the desire of commercial companies and research establishments to patent products or processes , which they have developed , as it is difficult to define accurately the parameters of a biological process .
21 Already £155,000 has been raised towards the £600,000 target set to buy the scanner .
22 To date , $7.3 million in gifts and pledges has been raised towards the $10.5 million goal .
23 His erstwhile subordinate had been raised to a position of considerable power now , and he would no doubt recall how little mercy he had been shown by his former Controller .
24 Henry of Grosmont , whose earldom of Lancaster had been raised to a duchy in 1351 , died of the plague on 23 March 1361 , leaving two daughters as his coheiresses .
25 For those who find it hard to work with or explain coherently to others a set of numbers which have been raised to a power or logged , Mosteller and Tukey ( 1977 : 194 ) suggest a technique which they call ‘ matched re-expression ’ to rescale the transformed values to fall within the main range of the original number scale .
26 Henry worked at the Foreign Office in London , where ambiguity had been raised to an art form .
27 In his day a College of Advanced Technology , it has since grown in size and been raised to the status of a university , but without putting on any airs and graces .
28 In his death the sand-flea had been raised to the status of a full Marine …
29 Perhaps the most remarkable of all , the Norfolk Broads , which are actually nothing more than the flooded workings of a huge medieval peat extraction industry , have recently been raised to the status of an Environmentally Sensitive Area and given their own Planning Authority .
30 Next , multiply x by x 2 to give x 3 , and so on until x has been raised to the power y ( xy ) .
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