Example sentences of "has [be] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Can my right hon. Friend find time during his busy day to congratulate the management and staff of Rover on the fact that over the past 12 months not one single minute of production time has been lost through industrial disputes ? |
| 32 | We are convinced that the philosophy which was originally intended to predominate in the post-war UK child care legislation — namely that the work of public agencies was to provide supportive services to families , part of which could include admission to care as a means ultimately of preserving family relationships in the long run — has been lost from current practice . |
| 33 | Surely the magic has been lost from pop music because she is now nearer 30 than 13 . |
| 34 | Many businesses close ; employment has been lost in rural areas ; when subsidies first went and interest rates were high large numbers of farmers were forced to leave their land . |
| 35 | RE must endeavour to revive the natural awareness and sensitivity which most likely has been lost by middle junior school , and apply this recovered awareness to the religious vocabulary which pupils need to understand in order to make sense of religion . |
| 36 | Much has been lost by various people in many different ways . |
| 37 | In five out of the last seven years the success rate for this type of appeal has been the first or second highest for all categories and almost one in every two appeals has been lost by local authorities . |
| 38 | The matter has been handled in meticulous detail both by Hare and Macfarlane , and only the most salient points can be noted here . |
| 39 | The origins of this marital-rape exemption seem to lie in the notion that the wife is the husband 's property , or that the wife promises intercourse on demand , but it has been defended in modern times on the basis that such cases raise essentially family matters , better suited to examination in a non-criminal court , and that in any case proof would be difficult . |
| 40 | The plan has been finalised by high-ranking officials of the Environment Protection Agency , although EPA Administrator William K. Reilly is still said to be " looking at the options " himself . |
| 41 | SOOTY has been saved from early retirement after his old bosses at Thames TV lost their franchise . |
| 42 | ‘ This is the first time in the history of higher education in Scotland that any lecturer has been threatened with compulsory redundancy . ’ |
| 43 | A STRABANE mum organising a parents ' boycott of the new 11-plus exam has been threatened with legal action by the Department of Education . |
| 44 | A TIMESHARE company has been threatened with legal action by a couple whose dream holiday plans have been ruined by building delays . |
| 45 | It has been stated on high authority that article 10 is in effect the same as the English common law . |
| 46 | While the truly indigenous private sector has been assisted in various ways to play a greater role in the national economy , this has often been at the expense of immigrant communities , who have rights of citizenship based on birth . |
| 47 | Sarah Sabin , 27 , who has a studio in Trinity Street , Colchester , has been assisted by local people in creating a map of the area , including roads , buildings and other major landmarks . |
| 48 | Women often are as important as men in making and keeping these links , which is one reason why the importance of the kin network in employment frequently has been missed by other researchers , who have looked for people with the same surname . |
| 49 | Michael Noonan , finance spokesman for the Irish opposition party , Fine Gael , and other politicians claim that a £400 million deal has been struck between Digital and Scottish Enterprise and the Scottish Office to ensure that the company invests in its manufacturing plant at Ayr . |
| 50 | A more optimistic note on house prices has been struck by big builders Wimpey . |
| 51 | Historically , as we have seen , the country has been rent by various upheavals , sometimes of a quite violent nature . |
| 52 | Essentially , we deal with the recent historical context ( development ) , the common configuration of the systems ( components ) , the software that has been developed for specific uses ( tools ) and the outcome of using these tools ( applications and implications ) . |
| 53 | The perspector comes complete with full instructions for use and has been developed for fine art use . |
| 54 | For children the RYA Junior Windsurfing Scheme has been developed along experimental learning principles . |
| 55 | ANEW method of repairing bone fractures using a device like a series of ‘ plastic chinese lanterns ’ has been developed at Heriot-Watt University . |
| 56 | While Soviet historiography continues to celebrate the revolution as the supreme vindication of Marxism-Leninism , the case has been developed with sufficient scholarly skill to merit new attention . |
| 57 | Unfortunately , no effective gall bladder plug has been developed despite considerable research in this field . |
| 58 | A new instrument for measuring ozone levels in the air has been developed by Austrian scientists . |
| 59 | The drug has been developed By British Biotechnology in Oxford and is undergoing tests on Breast cancer patients in Manchester . |
| 60 | The steady rise in quality of the materials produced and developed at Dudley Teachers ' Centre , for instance , is an excellent example ; the centre has an enthusiastic warden and much of the work has developed under the stimulus of an outstanding educational adviser , but the content of the materials has been developed by local teachers with admirable results ( mostly limited at present to print-form ) . |