Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of generalising findings from one patient to others by treating them all as representing instances of a single syndrome , the approach is to treat them all as people in whom a language-processing system which , before their neurological damage , was the same for all of them , has been impaired in some specific way . |
| 2 | The legal recognition of corporate character may be obtained either by a charter from the Crown , as in the case of most of our older corporations , like the Hudson 's Bay Company , some universities and their colleges , as well as of some more recent ones ; or directly by means of an incorporating Act of parliament , as in the case of certain public utilities ; or indirectly through an Act of Parliament like the Companies Act 1948 ( which has been amended by several later Acts of the same name , and consolidated by the Companies Act 1985 ) , which offers corporate character to any number of persons ( usually not less than seven ) associated for a lawful object , who are willing to comply with the statutory requirements as to registration and otherwise . |
| 3 | Chairman , can I say briefly that the merger and I 'm quite pleased that we 've finally er there is a death knell to this this awful word , it 's been bandied on for far too long , it 's been perhaps the single most controversial issue that has been debated by this authority along with some other mediocre issues and no one here would not admit er to the fact that it has been opposed on such massive scale and even today we 've had a further petition of three hundred and ninety five people opposing er this this this dreadful merger decision that was hanging over the er the the two centres and I 'm pleased that er this this er amendment , this er er erm this petition was brought forward today because it does indicate the continuing support and opposition to er the the kind of things that we should be doing and and those that we should n't . |
| 4 | Scottish Office officials said yesterday that a Scottish Environmental Protection Agency ( SEPA ) could be operational by 1996 , although its creation has been opposed by 40 local authorities and six of the seven river purification boards . |
| 5 | this appearance has been explained by multiple tiny bubbles produced by rotation of the impeller . |
| 6 | On its own it has been explained in various special ways , but considered in the general setting of Mediterranean stratigraphy , some more general explanation seems to be needed . |
| 7 | And finally , not on the green sheet , I will tell you , to put you all out of your misery , that tea has been arranged for six thirty . |
| 8 | The five-year project has resulted in a facelift for the line which has been recognised with several national awards . |
| 9 | More , probably , has been written about this great hall-like chapel than any other building in the world ; but in fact no description , picture or photograph conveys the impact which it makes . |
| 10 | So much has been written about this single epic without any clear view of the potential impact emerging . |
| 11 | You will soon realise that this is no ordinary bishop 's letter , since it has been written by some young people from this deanery . |
| 12 | What has been lost in all this second-guessing is the wanton reckless joy of his finest records . |
| 13 | RE must endeavour to revive the natural awareness and sensitivity which most likely has been lost by middle junior school , and apply this recovered awareness to the religious vocabulary which pupils need to understand in order to make sense of religion . |
| 14 | A man can enjoy outdoor exercise on all but five days in a year " [ and this ] has been echoed by most energetic Englishmen … |
| 15 | This has been assisted by some former colonial possessions in Africa maintaining strong economic , financial and trading relationships with France . |
| 16 | While Soviet historiography continues to celebrate the revolution as the supreme vindication of Marxism-Leninism , the case has been developed with sufficient scholarly skill to merit new attention . |
| 17 | Herringbroom Studio has been developed by three working painters — Piers Ottey , Catherine Somerville and Christopher Baker . |
| 18 | Further consideration is recommended on the subject of removing tax disadvantages that arise on disincorporation , a problem that has been highlighted on several previous occasions . |
| 19 | The need for training has been highlighted in many major reports . |
| 20 | Clerical Medical 's record of consistent performance has been highlighted in many independent surveys and has attracted much favourable comment . |
| 21 | The fringe on this smooth style has been cut to three different lengths . |
| 22 | Public sector housing , housing associations , building has been cut by two thirds . |
| 23 | This had in fact been an important focus since the early 1980s , even before the start of the classification research project , and the IPG 's approach has been adopted for all new and rewritten items . |
| 24 | The ideological success of Thatcherism is that it has been adopted by many young people for the values which direct their life style . |
| 25 | An even more limited approach has been adopted in some other cases . |
| 26 | Many of those that use alien plants have more than one food plant ( that is , are polyphagous ) ; the cabbage moth has been recorded on 31 different species of plants including 21 aliens . |
| 27 | It is usually a shelf species but has been recorded from 1665 m . |
| 28 | Despite the growth of research into everyday memory and memory in applied settings ( e.g. Gruneberg , Morris & Sykes , 1978 , 1988a , 1988b ) and the research and theorising which has been done over some 50 years on the psychology of driver behaviour , there has been virtually no research which directly looks at memory in driving . |
| 29 | Trialling has been done through weekly after-school sessions , through whole staff conferences in school and weekend courses . |
| 30 | Yet little systematic work has been done on such alternative formats , nor on the religious symbols employed by them . |