Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] has [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The subdivision of mansi into fractions documented in some polyptychs has been held to suggest the pressure of rising population on land-holding , and evidence of land-clearance and the extension of the cultivated area could point the same way . |
| 2 | This books has been designed : by me in the first place with my subjects , writing and drawings ; then by the print designer . |
| 3 | The toxic nature of some animals has been known for a long time and man has utilised their venoms and poisons for various purposes . |
| 4 | If not , the ratification of Maastricht should not be taken as a signal that the Europe of the past few decades has been assured of perpetuity , but rather that a redefinition of its ambitions is overdue . |
| 5 | No government warning on food issued over the past few years has been rescinded , but most people prefer to forget them , whilst sources of food poisoning remain unstopped . |
| 6 | A £20 MILLION contract which will help to safeguard about 100 jobs over the next few years has been won by GEC Ferranti of Edinburgh . |
| 7 | The University 's strategy of expansion over the past few years has been aimed to take full advantage of the UFC 's new policy of rewarding those universities that have demonstrated their willingness and ability to expand by retrospectively awarding full grant for an increased number of so-called fully funded students . |
| 8 | However , it must be remembered that much of the work until these last few weeks has been undertaken outside in the kind of conditions experienced by most preservationists . |
| 9 | As a consequence of the CROWN rating of some establishments has been reduced by one or more CROWNS . |
| 10 | The ‘ proletarianization ’ of such groups has been stimulated by their rapid post-war growth , and because they are directly employed by large corporations or the state . |
| 11 | An earlier proposal that solicitors employed by foreign lawyers in England and Wales should be allowed to give legal advice to clients of the practice as well as doing non-reserved work for such clients has been dropped , at any rate for the time being until some adequate system of regulation can be devised . |
| 12 | With this in mind , a general guide to the assessment and control of such risks has been published by the HSE . |
| 13 | However , in recent years a blitz on such companies has been mounted with the result that there has been some improvement . |
| 14 | The lack of such participants has been aggravated over the years by high commission costs and clearing fees . |
| 15 | An even more negative view of such studies has been taken in academic psychology . |
| 16 | But though an enormous amount of material about such families has been accumulated over the past century , neither the social anthropologists nor the compilers of genealogical handbooks ( an aristocratic occupation ) have taken sufficient interest in them to make it easy to generalise with any confidence about such family groups . |
| 17 | A variety of such theories has been proposed . |
| 18 | A range of such payments has been introduced following the inclusion of an element for this purpose in successive academic and academic-related salary settlements ( e.g. more extensive promotion exercises , distinction awards for professors , other payments for readers and lecturers , and super-scale payments for academic-related staff ) . |
| 19 | The particular suitability of railways to carry bulk minerals like coal cheaply has ensured that the connection between the railways and such minerals has been maintained to the present day . |
| 20 | The algebraic structure of these transformations has been analysed by Geroch ( 1972 ) . |
| 21 | Support for these views has been sought in the small , variable , pleural sclerites of the Apterygote insects , though recent work on these by Manton ( 1972 ) has cast serious doubt on the subcoxal theory . |
| 22 | A careful assessment of these views has been made by D.C. Heggie . |
| 23 | None of these vacancies has been filled . |
| 24 | Second , the various ‘ gateways ’ have permitted some agreements to be ratified , and the wisdom of some of these ratifications has been challenged . |
| 25 | Whether light as well as heat is generated in these reactions has been questioned by some critics . |
| 26 | This is , of course , a very difficult area and the Group did not produce a credible response to the problem , because there is n't one , once the crucial decision to publish results at all these ages has been taken . |
| 27 | The specificity of these antagonists has been shown in vitro and they provide a valuable research tool with potential widespread clinical application . |
| 28 | The degree of dispersion away from these concentrations has been limited by the same forces that have prevented low-income people in general from moving into suburban environments , combined with a desire for being amongst their own people in an essentially alien culture . |
| 29 | Each object shown in these pictures has been scanned at two or three different wavelengths . |
| 30 | But the court 's discretion under this rule only arises if the applicant has sought a declaration , an injunction or damages ; and even if one of these remedies has been claimed the court may , in cases raising complex factual issues , refuse to exercise the discretion in the applicant 's favour on the basis that it would be better if the case were started afresh by writ . |