Example sentences of "it has been [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In some cases where it is geographically and numerically feasible this has been done within the Catholic sector e.g. Hounslow ; in other areas , normally where a Catholic school stands alone , it has been done in conjunction with State schools e.g. Corby .
2 It will be the first time the programme has ever been done outside London , and the first time it has been done in front of an audience .
3 It has been noted at Gartree that the better the governor , the more quickly he goes .
4 There can be little doubt , however , that geomorphology within physical geography needs to overcome its unnatural reluctance to become familiar with the principles underlying landscape processes because this will not necessarily prejudice the retention of a meso-scale approach and it has been achieved by sedimentology ( e.g. Allen , 1970 ) and by soil science .
5 Non-availability is an idea deeply embedded in the Christian tradition of celibacy ; though for too long now it has been seen as renunciation by men of sinful life , rather than as a radical statement by women .
6 To describe behaviour as skilled is to say no more than that it has been influenced by training and experience .
7 It has been characterised by dictatorship , lack of respect for human rights and corruption .
8 It has been written for use on microcomputers with the IBM PC or PS/2 style keyboards , including the RM Nimbus and the Amstrad PC .
9 This was first bought in the 1970s by the regions , but it has been deployed under sectorisation with singleminded determination to maximise earnings .
10 However section 19 permits the constable to seize anything on the premises if he has reasonable grounds for believing either that it has been obtained in consequence of the commission of an offence or that it is evidence in relation to an offence which he is investigating or any other offence .
11 Fathers who choose instead to commit acts of oral sex or buggery on them will commit no offence save where the girl 's consent , in the narrow , legal sense of the term , is lacking or where it has been obtained by threat , which may be difficult to prove .
12 It introduced entirely new aerodynamic principles to kiting which we shall describe under ‘ Foils ’ later , and because of its efficiency , it has been applied to power-kiting with some astonishing results , not least being measured speeds approaching 195km/h ( 120mph ) in horizontal flight .
13 But it is a useful conception ; and it has been applied by Statute to some public officers , such as certain Ministers and the Official Solicitor .
14 In part this has been promoted by fundholding , but more fundamentally it has been stimulated by health authorities engaging in a dialogue with general practitioners and giving greater priority to primary care as a result .
15 It has been observed in education in general that students respond to and learn from some techniques more than others .
16 It has been observed in connection with North Sea oil developments that the local communities have often been cast in the role of David against the Goliath of the oil companies .
17 Also check you damp proof course : if it has been breached by soil , or a new patio being built above it , it may have become ineffective .
18 In the North Atlantic it has been recorded from SW .
19 It has been developed in response to customer demand and requests from Branch Banking Division for a more streamlined system .
20 It has been developed in conjunction with leading dental experts and a two minute brush with the Oral B is equivalent to six minutes with an ordinary toothbrush .
21 It has been exchanged for Spitfire XVI SL542 , currently in store at RAF St Athan .
22 It would be very difficult , if not downright negligent , for such a scheme to fail when it has been overloaded with money .
23 It has been said in defence of such publications that those who allow themselves to be depicted indecently are thereby ‘ waiving their own privacy rather than impeding or intruding upon that of others ’ .
24 The Cunard shipping giant , which also owns the QE2 , limped into port with storm damaged results yesterday , reflecting just how badly it has been blown off course .
25 ‘ We have also had to throw away 200 lbs of meat in case it has been contaminated by glass fragments .
26 The colliery reopened last year when 160 miners invested £10,000 each to form a consortium but it has been beset by production and financial difficulties .
27 It has been placed in receivership after failing to ride out a long economic recession which has hit the building industry very hard .
28 It is a Yorkshire dale in a classic sense with sweeping contours and a fierce beauty on the grand scale , although in recent years it has been placed in County Durham ( not that locals pay any attention to such cultural vandalism ) .
29 Make sure it has been made with ripstop nylon and has good quality spars and reinforced pockets to receive them .
30 If it has been made of lead , then I would also have suggested that it was a pommel .
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