Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [pron] has been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any one essay is merely evidence of the degree of skill or technique which has been achieved . |
| 2 | ‘ Nothing in the provisions of this Article shall be taken to require a person to repeat any testing , examination or research which has been carried out otherwise than by him or at his instance , in so far as it is reasonable for him to rely on the results thereof for the purposes of those provisions . ’ |
| 3 | In fact , when I bring in the afternoon tea , Mr Farraday is inclined to close any book or periodical he has been reading , rise and stretch out his arms in front of the windows , as though in anticipation of conversation with me . |
| 4 | But , apart from a winter break , whatever is planned around the 23rd relates to one specific plan or association which has been on and off for several months and is now back on again . |
| 5 | Every time this matter 's been before either committee or council there has been a majority in favour of the merger principles . |
| 6 | The relative or person who has been given the medical certificate by the doctor must see the Registrar of Births and Deaths for the district where the death occurred , in order that the death may be registered . |
| 7 | Beware of any chimney breast or wall which has been removed or partly removed in any room at any level . |
| 8 | By loading specific parts of the system with food or water it has been possible to investigate , for example , the role of the stomach in the termination of eating and drinking . |
| 9 | The man or woman who has been made redundant may begin to feel that life is all but over . |
| 10 | So in OALD the examples support and enlarge on the definitions ; they are sentences or phrases showing the word or phrase which has been defined in use . |
| 11 | New Historicism is very adept at employing ‘ thick description ’ , a detailed skilful exposition of , usually , some text or document which has been largely critically bypassed previously , but which is shown to have a charged metaphoric function in revealing some facet of Renaissance culture . |
| 12 | If he makes any mistake no harsh remark is made , but quietly he is asked to go through again and point out such-and-such a sheep or goat which has been purposely hidden . |
| 13 | The upset and damage which has been caused to us by these articles is an extremely serious matter . |
| 14 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what has been the change in manufacturing industry productivity in the past 10 years . |
| 15 | One of the things I want to argue is that in order to construct certain exemplary models of antiracist policy and practice it has been necessary to operate in terms of a reductive representation of racism , one which not only scales down its reality , but ignores its more complex features . |
| 16 | Then again , Daniel Barenboim 's life-story reads a bit like one of Mann 's celebrated Bildungsromans — for it is the tale of a prodigy of immense talent and ambition who has been repeatedly subjected to Job-like tests of his emotional mettle . |
| 17 | Ingenuity can sometimes suggest ambiguity or obscurity where none exists in fact , and if the instant case were to be thought to justify the exercise of combing through reports of Parliamentary proceedings in the hope of unearthing some perhaps incautious expression of opinion in support of an improbable secondary meaning , the relaxation of the rule might indeed lead to the fruitless expense and labour which has been prayed in aid in the past as one of the reasons justifying its maintenance . |
| 18 | Lord Oliver of Aylmerton commented that ‘ ingenuity can sometimes suggest ambiguity or obscurity where none exists in fact , and if the instant case were to be thought to justify the exercise of combing through reports of parliamentary proceedings in the hope of unearthing some perhaps incautious expression of opinion in support of an improbable secondary meaning , the relaxation of the rule might indeed lead to the fruitless expense and labour which has been prayed in aid in the past as one of the reasons justifying its maintenance ’ . |
| 19 | Another slightly different angle on these issues is to consider the distinction between instrumentality and expressiveness which has been made use of by sociologists , and is usefully applied to a discussion of kin relations by Morgan ( 1975 , pp. 78–85 ) . |
| 20 | The river meanders have changed position often and so wide floodplains have formed from gravel , sand and mud which has been deposited on the inside edge of each meander . |
| 21 | Their daughters now in their sixties , fifties and forties , were the post-war generations of married women who found their way back into waged work , who disrupted the equation between the breadwinner and masculinity which has been inscribed in both the wage system and in the state 's system of income support . |
| 22 | Public opinion in general is turning to a more natural approach both to the environment and to health as a reaction to the increasingly mechanized view of man and society which has been developing throughout the greater part of this century . |
| 23 | In Chemicals Manufacturing at Royston and Brimsdown it has been time for change . |
| 24 | By anybody 's calculations that is much more than inflation and allows a tremendous amount of growth — and growth there has been . |
| 25 | 9 Equity , law and property There has been much academic discussion about the nature of the law of confidence . |
| 26 | Improved NFS performance also lies at the heart of the company 's desire to recapture ground in the market for heavily networked NFS systems and software which has been all but hi-jacked by the likes of Auspex Systems Inc , Legato Systems Inc , Interphase Corp and Ceram Inc . |
| 27 | It is not yet clear how many criteria teachers and others can be expected to manage , or find useful , but the limited amount of research and observation which has been conducted in this area suggests that teachers do not always work at a high level of detailed information . |
| 28 | That scheme rests upon an interpretation of liberal ideals and the justice of the market order for the distribution of wealth and power which has been overshadowed by a rival interpretation of liberalism and a redefinition of legitimate market relations . |
| 29 | Although the majority of MPhils and PhDs awarded ( over 6,000 in total ) have been in the areas of science and technology there has been a growing number of registrations and conferments in the social sciences . |
| 30 | This is not simply innate or pure ability , but ability which has been developed through the process of the curriculum ; not merely the ‘ good mind ’ but the ‘ trained mind ’ ( See Chapter 4 ) . |