Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [adj] [noun sg] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general , the results that we have reported in this chapter have been favourable to the rational expectations hypothesis , suggesting at the very least that the usefulness of that hypothesis in one area of macroeconomics can not be dismissed lightly . |
| 2 | Many artefacts decorated in this way have been found in royal tombs on the mainland . |
| 3 | Included in this overview have been the campaigns against the Thorsen film and James Kirkup 's poem in Gay News , where blasphemy was the central explicit issue ; Mrs Whitehouse 's criticism of television , in particular the BBC 's supposed bias toward ‘ South Bank ’ theology , and Till Death Us Do Part 's irreverence towards Christianity ; the perceived lack of support for the NVALA from Church leaders . |
| 4 | Although the details contained in this brochure have been published in good faith , Somerset Tourism can not accept any liability for inaccuracies or omissions or for any loss or damage in any way connected with or arising out of the publication of this information . |
| 5 | The principle of the experiments considered in this section has been mentioned in Section 22.4 . |
| 6 | The issues considered in this chapter have been , to a certain extent , theoretical . |
| 7 | The access times considered in this chapter have been simply the time taken to position the device access mechanism to read or write a selected record . |
| 8 | The number of bitter , angry , women-hating recently divorced men I have met in this way has been a real eye-opener to me . |
| 9 | All that we have written in this section has been in a light vein , but there is a very serious side to it . |
| 10 | Some sixty per cent of the amendments that we 've adopted in this field have been incorporated in the finished legislation and that means in reality that much of the content of these laws has come from Nigel 's pen , the pens of the other trade unionists inside and outside the G M B that he 's plugged in to that system extremely worthwhile . |
| 11 | Rigoberta Menchu has lived in exile in Mexico for the past 11 years , yet the only weapons she has used in that time have been words . |
| 12 | It is not clear whether either of the two villages used in this study had been exposed to the experimental Concentrated Reinforcement Programme or not . |
| 13 | An educational pack explaining the background to many of the issues raised in BLUE PLANET has been prepared by educationalists , environmentalists and others in association with Du Pont and its subsidiary Conoco . |
| 14 | The consultation skills employed in this session had been : |
| 15 | His approach is a clear indication that the apparent rigours of Faccenda are now being mitigated by judges because the definition of trade secrets given in that case has been found to be too narrow to be workable . |
| 16 | What has been attempted in this chapter has been the clarification that so far the traditional values of catholic nationalism are still dominant among the Roman catholics of Ireland , even if they are severely contested by a significant minority from among them and lukewarmly subscribed to by a further significant minority . |
| 17 | All the suppliers of building services represented in this brochure have been selected from amongst those recommended by established local opinion as being reliable and reasonable . |
| 18 | Caching of food , on the other hand , does occur , and records of 70 or 80 prey individuals being stored in one place have been described for different predator species ( Quick , 1951 ; Parovshchikov , 1963 ; Chesemore , 1975 ; MacDonald , 1976 ) . |
| 19 | A rigorous analysis of the mechanisms involved in electromagnetic damping has been undertaken by Hughes and Lawrenson ( 1975 ) , who demonstrated that the single-step response is third-order when the electrical circuit is taken into account . |
| 20 | What has happened in that sector has been no less dramatic . |
| 21 | The need to separate the functions of chairman and chief executive has been a raging debate in City of London parlours for the past couple or years , and companies at which the two roles are combined in one person have been under enormous pressure to accept a separation of powers : now the same debate could take off across the Atlantic as Compaq Computer Corp 's ( non-executive ) chairman Ben Rosen tells the House Telecommunications and Finance Subcommittee that the troubles that have beset some of America 's largest companies can be traced to cozy relationships between their boards and their chief executives — he declares that the boards of most US companies are chaired by the company 's chief executive , who picks the board members and controls the agenda — ‘ With an appropriate form of corporate governance , I fully believe that the current problems of IBM , Digital Equipment , Westinghouse and other major American corporations could have been addressed and probably solved far earlier with much reduced ill effects , ’ Rosen told the legislators , adding that a company 's chairman should be a ‘ truly outside independent director , ’ not the chief executive or a former chief executive , and that all board members , with the exception of the chief executive , should also be outsiders , who should get their directors ' fees in the form of shares or options . |
| 22 | The melody we have discussed in this chapter has been almost exclusively of a classical type . |
| 23 | Some of the other issues discussed in this book have been central to historical writing on South Asia which treats more traditional subjects . |
| 24 | All the cases discussed in this section have been ones in which words addressed to one person were held to make another person a trustee either for the first person or for a third party . |
| 25 | Some measures taken in this context have been controversial and offered an easy target for criticism in the press . |
| 26 | Intensively studied in this respect has been the Malay Peninsula , where there was trade with China , particularly in ivory and incense wood ( Aquilaria malaccensis , Thymelaeaceae ) , the decaying heartwood of which is saturated with resin ( the aloe or ahaloth of the Bible ) , in the period AD 420–589 . |
| 27 | ( Apart from Colchester , the names of people and the locations of the events mentioned in this article have been changed in order to protect the integrity of the Service . ) |
| 28 | Everything that has transpired in this room has been recorded . |
| 29 | The Quality Framework described in this Update has been shaped by those responses . |
| 30 | The models described in this section have been rather special in their assumptions , and could be elaborated in several respects . |