Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile a number of less formalised groups have been formed to advise on physical disability , learning difficulties ( separate groups for users and carers ) and HIV/AIDs . |
| 2 | Bowel scintigraphy using Indium-111 labelled leucocytes has been applied to the assessment of disease extent and activity in Crohn 's disease . |
| 3 | Measurement of faecal excretion of Indium-111 labelled leucocytes has been used to assess disease activity and has been shown to effectively distinguish active from quiescent Crohn 's disease and to correlate with other clinical and laboratory activity indices . |
| 4 | Mr FREEDMAN adds : ‘ The hazards of playgrounds to young children are well recognised , and among other measures , absorbent surfaces have been recommended to help reduce the severity of injuries . |
| 5 | Two more private estates have been built and the proportion of commuters has risen sharply . |
| 6 | Rural groups have been vulnerable for a long time . |
| 7 | Realization and distribution of partnership assets will occur after the dissolution has been brought into effect and all outstanding debts have been settled . |
| 8 | Various criteria evaluating the outcome of regional policies have been used . |
| 9 | Although their significance as regional political institutions has been undermined — in the case of water authorities by proposals for privatization and in the case of health authorities by a series of financial and managerial initiatives which have encouraged a shift towards private sector ( market-type ) decision-making ( Pollitt , Harrison , Hunter and Marnoch , 1988 ) — there has been a growth in regional state institutions in other policy areas . |
| 10 | There is much to celebrate : thousands of rural clinics have been built , and programmes established to spread information about hygiene and sanitation . |
| 11 | Further off in that direction , on the site of the modern village of Makroteichos , there were Minoan houses and traces of Minoan houses have been found as far north as Palaiomilo , some 600 metres north of the temple precinct : beyond this area was the northern cemetery of Zafer Papoura . |
| 12 | Following the creation of the National Heritage Memorial Fund , several outstanding houses have been saved with their contents and handed to the National Trust . |
| 13 | Significant levels of trading went on outside this inner area , and scattered finds of Minoan products have been made as far west as the Lipari Islands off the coast of Italy , as far north as Troy ( stone lamps ) , and as far east as Egypt and Syria , where Minoan vases made of precious metal have been found . |
| 14 | By last night , six oil-soaked birds had been found and taken to an RSPCA shelter at Fareham , Hampshire . |
| 15 | His funeral was as well orchestrated as his political meetings had been . |
| 16 | While the latter seems the most likely cause in many blends where specific interactions have been identified , miscible blends can also be obtained when certain statistical copolymers are mixed with either a homopolymer , or another copolymer , in which no such interactions have been located . |
| 17 | By 1981 the artist was using photographic imagery as if it was purely graphic material , as if the literal meanings had been dissolved in a solution of ideas and metaphors — except that the half-tone dots from newsprint were emphatically part of the image . |
| 18 | Indeed , only eight cases have been fully authenticated . |
| 19 | The geography of fifteenth-century palaces had been relatively simple : there was a Great Hall , where ceremonious and public appearances were made , and the Chamber where the King withdrew and where only a few could follow him . |
| 20 | The independent commission established by the government to investigate and audit funds and property of former East German parties and political groups had been hindered in its work by shortage of staff and lack of co-operation from the affected organizations . |
| 21 | A number of the more resilient groups have been intensively studied . |
| 22 | Section 226 policies have been abolished and are no longer available for purchase . |
| 23 | Nutritional experts have been criticized in the past for expressing themselves so strongly on this point , but they are unrepentant . |
| 24 | Two conflicting views have been taken . |
| 25 | A prominent feature was the surviving aggregates of endocrine cells marking the former position of glandular bases where colonic crypts had been destroyed ( Fig 2B ) , a feature characteristically seen in graft v host disease . |
| 26 | Since President Siad Barre 's brutal 21-year reign ended , armed groups have been killing each other and civilians simply on account of their clan origin , according to the Amnesty report . |
| 27 | Giving their decision , Lord Hope said strong reasons had been given for hearing what the children had to say without taking them back to Orkney . |
| 28 | After several years during which agricultural surpluses had been substantially reduced , they had risen by the end of 1990 and stood at : cereals — 18,000,000 tonnes ; beef — 700,000 tonnes ; butter — 278,000 tonnes ; skimmed milk powder — 335,000 tonnes ; wine — 8,000,000 hectolitres ; and tobacco — 30,000 tonnes . |
| 29 | Government-to-government contacts had been restarted in early December with the convening in Beijing of consultations on cultural exchanges . |
| 30 | I learnt — without making myself appear too inquisitive — that the Guérigny roots struck deep into la Sologne , a land whose finest hours had been in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries . |