Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] has [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another very successful collection of my pictures has been made by a lady who is very keen on yellow roses . |
| 2 | They keep sheep in Magdalen grove now , and I hear the fleecy care bleating all day long : I am shocked to find that none of my pupils , though they are all acquainted with pastoral poetry , regards them as anything but a nuisance : and one of my colleagues has been heard to ask why sheep have their wool cut off . |
| 3 | A Colorado State bill which would allow fruit and vegetable growers to claim compensation from anyone who falsely maligned their products has been vetoed by the state 's Governor , Roy Romer , on the grounds that it constituted a threat to free speech . |
| 4 | The need for developing countries to generate export surpluses to service their debts has been identified as a major cause of environmentally destructive policies such as exploitation of the rainforests . |
| 5 | One thing is certain , however , and that is that Adobe 's monopoly on PostScript and its fonts has been broken . |
| 6 | A new video aimed at encouraging women in Africa to work more closely together within their communities has been released by the Christian media consultancy , Pentaline Services Ltd , based in Nairobi , Kenya . |
| 7 | The financial information in the group 's accounts relating to Ferromet Resources Inc and its subsidiaries has been based on unaudited management accounts for 1991 . |
| 8 | An agreement in principle to sell the building to its bankers has been reached , but disagreements among the banks have yet to be sorted out as well as finalising a support package from the Canadian government . |
| 9 | Another form of attractive homework involving children and their parents has been developed by the IMPACT ( Inventing Maths for Parents Children and Teachers ) Project reported by Ruth Merttens and Jeff Vass in Sharing Maths Cultures . |
| 10 | The misery of the Russians and their dependents has been intensified by a spate of attacks from East Germans finally able to give expression to years of resentment . |
| 11 | At a time when the French auction business is under fierce pressure from Sotheby 's and Christie 's , the introduction of a premium lower than that of their rivals has been greeted with delight . |
| 12 | The sequence selectivity of the platination of DNA by cisplatin and its analogues has been investigated through a number of approaches , all of which indicate a preference for binding to GG sequences . |
| 13 | To the charge that Victorians sentimentalised the deaths of their children has been added the allegation that they may have inflicted psychological damage by bringing them prematurely into contact with death . |
| 14 | The Department of Health guidelines ( 1984 ) have recognized the involvement of the general practitioner in the assessment of patients who harm themselves , although the vagueness of its recommendations has been criticized ( Kessel 1985 ) . |
| 15 | It is the second time this year one of his drivers has been hijacked in protests at British exports and the Gatt world trade deal . |
| 16 | After months of legal moves , the bid to have him extradited to Jersey to face trial for murdering his parents has been stalled . |
| 17 | The trial of his killers has been regarded as a test of the political will of the authorities to put an end to the climate of impunity prevalent in the rural areas of Brazil , where scores of peasants and their leaders have been killed by hired gunmen . |
| 18 | Now the director — like most people in East Germany — is so busy adapting to the transition to a market economy and to the West German Deutsch Mark than none of his undertakings has been honoured . |
| 19 | Opinion as to the artistic merits of his buildings has been mixed . |
| 20 | Eleven months after a pensioner was found dead in his home , one of his neighbours has been charged with murdering him . |
| 21 | Strangely , outside these dates , no other of his pupils has been traced : Oxford University and the other Cambridge Colleges did not then list the schools of their entrants . |
| 22 | The management of our schools has been conditioned by both the ideology and practice of hierarchy and control to a point at which , in some cases , it must attract the pejorative term of managerialism , a condition under which the artificial needs of managers , organisations , systems , bureaucracies or routines assume dominance over the real needs of children . |
| 23 | The question of arming our cutters has been discussed fully on several occasions and a decision against this step has always been reached . |
| 24 | Whilst an estimate of our fees has been given , additional costs may be required as a result of any material change in the assignment or difficulties in obtaining information which could not reasonably be foreseen and which caused additional work not included in the original estimate . |
| 25 | Once the decision as to which piece , or pieces , of software will meet your requirements has been taken , together with the selection of the necessary hardware , the implementation phase of the project can begin . |
| 26 | Yet none of our preparations has been tested on animals . |