Example sentences of "have [be] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now two of New Zealand 's main export markets have been badly hit by political and economic troubles : the Middle East and the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | It would be quite wrong if I were to base my view solely on submissions from members of the public who have been unduly influenced by misleading information from other quarters . |
| 3 | They have been frequently invited to international festivals , but this will be the first time they have visited our own festival — we have been waiting patiently in a very long queue ! |
| 4 | Depersonalization rituals , including the conditions on the voyage from Africa and the ritual humiliations of their inauguration to the plantation society have been carefully detailed in modern historical studies of the institution . |
| 5 | Fish and other organisms have been successively destroyed over large areas of the creek , and surviving fish have become chronically diseased . |
| 6 | Union attitudes have been powerfully conditioned by long and bitter experience . |
| 7 | Resist is underexposed to UV light : — increase exposure period accordingly ( only area which have been thoroughly exposed to UV light will be developed ) . |
| 8 | Until very recently the theoretical issues raised by literary study have been largely ignored in British academic teaching and research . |
| 9 | The labour market disadvantages of people with disabilities have been largely caused by unequal treatment institutional discrimination and structural barriers to equal opportunity , rather than by the limitations of disability itself . |
| 10 | Geoff Esland points out that since the 1946 National Health Service Act levels of pay and conditions of work in the medical profession , and spending on medical research , have been largely determined by central government . |
| 11 | In current pedagogic fashion , behaviourist practices have been largely superseded by cognitive and communicative perspectives on learning . |
| 12 | There has been a retirement migration to small inland towns in these regions for , as the authors of the study stress ‘ ail of these are rural areas with attractive scenery which have been largely by-passed by industrial development of any scale ’ ( Law and Warnes 1976 , p. 470 ) . |
| 13 | In addition , there is the most important demand-side pressure — namely , changes in the demand for labour locally and nationally , the effects of which have been largely overlooked in previous research . |
| 14 | English hill forts and medieval towns have been extensively excavated in recent years , and a new dimension has been added to our knowledge of them ; in this the Biddles have been the incomparable pioneers in their excavations at Winchester — but many other cities have made a major contribution , including York and Lincoln and Oxford . |
| 15 | Such group-frequency correlations have been extensively developed for organic compounds , and similar correlations can be drawn up for inorganic species [ 19 ] . |
| 16 | FEARS that a power-generating barrage across the Mersey could seriously damage the estuary 's international status as a wintering home for wildfowl and waders have been partly eased by preliminary studies of bird habits . |
| 17 | The travertine barriers of the Krka National Reserve have been partly destroyed by direct bombing and a large area of vegetation burned . |
| 18 | However , they have been widely used by Tough and by many of the teachers she has worked with and thus , from a practical point of view , they seem to have been well tried and tested by practitioners . |
| 19 | ATNs have been widely used in natural language processing systems over the last two decades ( e.g. LUNAR ( Woods , 1973 ) , PROGRAMMAR ( Winograd , 1972 ) , SOPHIE ( Burton & Brown , 1979 ) ) . |
| 20 | More specific economic policies , which have been widely discussed in recent years , fit within this tendency towards an autocratic state . |
| 21 | Think of the dramatic change facing these people who have been completely shielded from economic forces . |
| 22 | But fields that have been heavily dosed with chemical weedkillers and fertilizers would take centuries to become home to such a wealth of wildlife . |
| 23 | In too many instances in the past the interests of beauty have been heavily outweighed by commercial considerations . |
| 24 | While it is true that many large Victorian family houses have been successfully converted into small flats , the smaller suburban-style houses built in the 1920s and 1930s and copied in the ‘ garden cities ’ and new towns of the 1940s are less amenable to conversion and are often located in such a way within the city that they will have an effect on the life-style and employment opportunities of men and women for generations to come ( McDowell , 1983 ) . |
| 25 | Often , these have been successfully used in other research and this allows us to compare our own work with that of others . |
| 26 | Whilst these decision aids have been successfully used in certain instances , they are not in regular use in the majority of organisations . |
| 27 | Based on the fact that eicosapentaenoate derived eicosanoids have attenuated proinflammatory activity as compared with arachidonate derived compounds , dietary n3 polyunsaturated fatty acid supplements ( fish oil ) have been successfully used in experimental animal models of inflammation and in patients with rheumatoid arthritis . |
| 28 | While much previous research by geographers , economists , sociologists and planners has tended to focus on the cases and consequences of industrial decline in the conurbations of northern Britain and London , this research attempts to break new ground both in examining the cause of economic growth and prosperity in southern England and in seeking to assess the extent to which the benefits of growth have been equally shared amongst different segments of the population in such areas . |
| 29 | This may serve to emphasise the effects of local sequence and structure on the dissociation parameters since those that have been rigorously determined with synthetic oligonucleotides are all flanked by short regions of alternating A and T residues . |
| 30 | ‘ The Treaty of Rome rules on competitive costs and prices have been blatantly disregarded by certain countries and the multi-nationals , ’ he added . |