Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] been [vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certiorari quashes a decision which is found to be invalid because it is outside the powers granted to the court or tribunal ( ultra vires ) , or has been given in proceedings in which the principles of natural justice were not observed , or where there has been an error of law on the face of the record . |
| 2 | We also found that patients with Crohn 's disease affecting the colon were likely to relapse more rapidly , a finding that has been noted by others . |
| 3 | FOR a country that has been run by soldiers for nearly a decade , Nigeria shows little enthusiasm for the elections due on June 12th . |
| 4 | The recurrence of Gough 's injury looks , if the reaction of his team-mates was a reliable barometer , to be a serious one and is the latest blow sustained by the Ibrox captain in a season that has been punctuated by mishaps . |
| 5 | In other words , their natural history does not fit with the explanation that has been repeated in textbooks for decade after decade . |
| 6 | She is nursing a chipped elbow and an image that has been dented by allegations of party members taking kickbacks from the barons of pachinko , a form of pinball which is a national passion . |
| 7 | That is essentially because of the change in labour relations and the encouragement that has been given for employers and the work force to work together . |
| 8 | Although there is no such thing as a ‘ correct ’ sentence , there is a notional scale of penalties known as the tariff , which is based on the ‘ normal range ’ that has been developed by courts in the past , under the guidance of the Court of Appeal . |
| 9 | There is no standardized definition of child abuse that has been developed by researchers and accepted by welfare professionals . |
| 10 | But it is not only the concept of reasonable suspicion that has been diluted by police practice and judicial endorsement . |
| 11 | CPRW is one of a small handful of organisations in Wales that has been asked for views on what the report should say . |
| 12 | CPRW is one of a small handful of organisations in Wales that has been asked for views on what the report should say . |
| 13 | The treatment of the confession as a factor triggering reinvestigation could , in time , import into police practices the fruits of useful research that has been conducted by psychologists and sociologists on the subject . |
| 14 | There is absolutely no correlation between those figures and the degree of constraint that has been applied on districts . |
| 15 | do not buy furniture filled with polyurethane foam that has been treated with CFCs |
| 16 | However , it is already apparent that resistance can be induced in insects relatively rapidly when they are exposed to toxin that has been expressed in plants or other organisms . |
| 17 | There is another function of playing dead that has been depicted for centuries but which , until recently , was thought to be no more than a fictitious folk-tale . |
| 18 | Campese is not so much dragon as dinosaur in a world of rugby that has been usurped by believers in forward power , physical prowess and the art of containment . |
| 19 | The arrangement of the same data that has been shown in Figs. 8.1 and 8.2 , but now held as a multilist , is shown in Fig. 8.3 . |
| 20 | One would also have expected the density fluctuations in such a model to have led to the formation of many more primordial black holes than the upper limit that has been set by observations of the gamma ray background . |
| 21 | A criticism that has been levelled at clinicians in the past is that they are concerned only with the patients they actually see and not with the wider population . |
| 22 | These may be dissolved during core preparation and analysis to produce an anomalous vuggy porosity ( scale bar 0.2 mm in B , and 1 mm in C ) ( D ) Porous dolomite that has been compacted around patches of replacement anhydrite from Tønder-2 ( scale bar 1 mm ) ; ( E ) SEM photomicrograph of corroded crystals from the porous dolomite illustrated in Fig. 29d , showing both intercrystalline and intracrystalline porosity ( scale divisions 10 microns ) . |
| 23 | Would he agree to support a review of the Reserve Forces Safeguard of Employment Act 1985 so that we shall not have in the future the rash of litigation that has been needed against employers who have declined to accept reservists back since the Gulf war ? |
| 24 | It is the same spray material that has been used for ages on potatoes and other crops , and can be a great help here also . |
| 25 | By rail you could alight at the tiny wooden platform that has been used by servicemen for decades . |
| 26 | This is exacerbated by the fact that there are some extremists who would argue that psychology is nothing but a crude way of approaching brain function that has been superseded by advances in physiological technique . |
| 27 | Clinical evidence began to accumulate , suggesting that the new drugs had a wider range of useful activities than had been predicted from experiments in animals . |
| 28 | In other responses , Lord Melchett , executive director of Greenpeace , said that the White Paper was even worse than had been expected from leaks and that the government had " dodged the important issues by reiterating existing inadequate policies and avoided making any new commitments which would protect the environment " . |
| 29 | The anger was triggered by a clash between photographers and bodyguards outside a toy store that had been cleared of shoppers so that Jackson could go on a shopping spree . |
| 30 | Birds that had been reared with siblings were tested in apparatus that allowed them to be given up to six alternatives ( Bateson , 1982a ) . |