Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] [been] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With its annual general meeting a little over two months away , the officers of the Publishers Association have been engaged in the biennial search for a new president , to succeed Paul Scherer of Transworld in April . |
| 2 | Vauxhall Conference Championship Shield and Bob Lord Trophy victories this season have been achieved while his side have been engaged in a relentless struggle with Colchester United for a place in the Fourth Division . |
| 3 | But most recipients who contacted The Northern Echo have been sickened by the views expressed . |
| 4 | The soft clay cliffs on this coast have been eroded by the sea since Roman times and 29 villages have been lost to the sea . |
| 5 | Five years The tenant 's right to compensation under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s37 , may be excluded or modified by agreement unless : ( 1 ) during the whole of the five years immediately preceding the date on which the tenant , under a tenancy to which the Act applies is to quit the holding , premises being or comprised in the holding have been occupied for the purposes of a business carried on by the occupier or for those and other purposes ; and ( 2 ) if , during those five years , there was a change in the occupier of the premises , the new occupier was a successor to the business carried on by the old occupier ( Landlord and Tenant Act 1958 , s38(2) , ( 3 ) ) . |
| 6 | Fourteen years The tenant will be entitled ( in certain circumstances ) to compensation under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s37 , equal to the production of the appropriate multiplier and twice the rateable value of the holding if : ( 1 ) during the whole of the fourteen years immediately preceding the termination of his tenancy , premises being or comprised in the holding have been occupied for the purposes of a business carried on by the occupier or for those and other purposes ; and ( 2 ) if during those fourteen years , there was a change in the occupier of the premises , the new occupier was the successor to the business carried on by the old occupier ( Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s37(2) , ( 3 ) ) . |
| 7 | Furthermore , fibrosis and cirrhosis have been produced in the baboon model of alcoholic liver disease in animals fed diets purportedly high in nutritional value , although this has been disputed . |
| 8 | Protruding parking bump sensors that sound a warning when they nudge another car have been launched as an accessory to help drivers squeeze into tight parking spaces . |
| 9 | At Culham , the very special skills developed for the fusion programme have been transferred to a variety of other applications , including Strategic Defence Initiative ( ‘ Star Wars ’ ) work for the US Government . |
| 10 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many directives under the single market programme have been implemented by the United Kingdom ; and what percentage have been implemented by the other EC members . |
| 11 | Indeed , in large part , the problems of digestion have been associated with the rise of the organisms in the other kingdoms in response to these unused resources : bacteria as well as fungi , and , perhaps , their associations with both animals and plants , from rumen bacteria to mycorrhiza . |
| 12 | Local lawyers , police and judiciary have been primed for the test case by a series of seminars organised in conjunction with BSA Europe . |
| 13 | The jury in the trial of four men accused of running a drug smuggling ring have been sent to a hotel for the night . |
| 14 | To take just two examples : in Nuremberg junctions have been remodelled to accommodate cafés and pedestrian-friendly squares ( Figure 6.49 ) , whilst in Freiburg narrow , calmed streets with insufficient space for extensive tree-planting have been greened by the simple expedient of growing climbing plants to mask the canyon-like street walls ( Figure 6.50 ) . |
| 15 | The detailed data for our study have been obtained from the nine largest Scotch Whisky companies , namely |
| 16 | It appears that two campaigning groups against genital mutilation have been developing in the last ten years within and outside Africa . |
| 17 | Since 1987 the results of prospecting for gold and silver have been passed to the BGS by the Crown Estate Commissioners and will eventually be available for public inspection along with other information from the BGS archives . |
| 18 | Tablets with the Linear B script have been found at the mainland city sites of Pylos , Mycenae , Tiryns and Thebes , as well as at Knossos , Khania ( Kydonia ) and elsewhere on Crete . |
| 19 | Applications for undergraduate study in the Department have been increasing over the past few years and are currently four times the number of places available . |
| 20 | These wider terms were evidenced in the range of publications with which committees and the Department have been associated including the Standard Form of Agreement for the Appointment of an Architect ( SFA/92 ) , revised JCT Prime Cost Contract , a revised Quality Management Manual , new and revised forms of collateral warranty , and two major policy documents , Our Homes : a call for action and Supply and demand in a greenhouse economy . |
| 21 | Concordances of this kind to the New Testament have been produced on the basis of the Analytical New Testament compiled by Barbara and Timothy Friberg ( Baker Books , 1981 ) . |
| 22 | Fears that the scarcity of chartered accountants in the Commons would prevent the Institute from finding a replacement for John Watts as its Parliamentary adviser have been quelled with the appointment of Judith Chaplin , MP for Newbury . |
| 23 | Union officials representing research workers in the coal industry have been called to a conference of mining unions to discuss the effect of this week 's big round of pit closures . |
| 24 | Number twos tend therefore to be passed over ( except for the top job in America , for which agreeably relaxed standards of industry have been set by a recent incumbent ) . |
| 25 | His essay , ‘ Of Parents and Children ’ , still makes salutary reading , and by no means sings the praises of paternity ; it suggests that most of the ‘ noblest works ’ of civilisation have been accomplished by the childless . |
| 26 | Some of the most interesting advances in perception have been made in the study of vision . |
| 27 | Two sisters sentenced to life in prison for murder have been freed by the Appeal Court after it was revealed that the Police deliberately withheld crucial evidence . |
| 28 | The figures for 1988 entry have been revised in the light of experience , especially for the small number of fields for which demand is strong , such as accounting & finance , computer studies and law . |
| 29 | Whilst preliminary discussion with a purchaser may take place before terms of engagement have been confirmed with the client , a formal CFEL must be obtained before any preparation of documentation begins . |
| 30 | For example oestrogen and trinitrin have been administered in a patch applied to the skin . |