Example sentences of "[det] areas have [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few areas have been subjected to uninterrupted denudation since then , but , as the earlier Tertiary climates were very different from the present ones , any surviving landforms could present difficulties to the investigator . |
| 2 | The NAO report , however , found that some areas had been neglected , notably air , as the inspectorate concentrated its resources on those areas it considered to be priorities such as nuclear sites . |
| 3 | Near some crofts however some areas have been improved by liming and surface seeding and elsewhere grazing , drainage and muirburn have altered the natural vegetation cover . |
| 4 | Both these areas had been proposed for SPA status by the Nature Conservancy Council , in August 1990 and July 1988 respectively , but no progress has been made . |
| 5 | These areas have been selected to tie into other current ESRC Initiatives on Social Change and Economic Life and on the economic and political understanding in 16-19 year olds . |
| 6 | To achieve this recognition , the modules in these areas have been matched against the Lead Bodies ' standards and amended where necessary . |
| 7 | Small amounts of native silver were produced from veins cutting Devonian volcanics and Dinantian sediments in Central Scotland at Alva and Hilderstone respectively ; these areas have been investigated by the BGS ( MRP 53 and 68 ) . |
| 8 | Some of the most intractable problems in Scottish geology relate to the structural and metamorphic history of the Moine Series rocks of the North West and Grampian Highlands , the ages of which have been matters of controversy and speculation since the early nineteenth century because of their structural complexity , and the lack of incontrovertible and unequivocal evidence of their absolute age , and it is noteworthy that research in these areas has been led by Geological Survey scientists , sometimes with university collaboration , and sometimes without . |
| 9 | In the USA on the other hand , a good deal of useful research in these areas has been undertaken . |
| 10 | It is most unlikely that either of these areas has been used for arable in the last 1500 years , and this is confirmed to some extent by field names recorded on the earliest maps ( of the early nineteenth century ) and in medieval documents . |
| 11 | With hundreds of thousands of people displaced from their homes by the conflict , the economy of these areas has been devastated and government forces are laying siege to many parts of the north , often involving inaccurate and indiscriminate bombardments of civilian population centres . |
| 12 | Considerable exploration effort in those areas has been felt by the industry to be worthwhile , and in the United States has already met with some commercial success . |
| 13 | There was also concern that several areas had been reoccupied by UNITA and that troops from both sides were involved in criminal acts . |