Example sentences of "has [be] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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61 This project will test a theory of how people recognize objects and pictures , which has been developed from previous work by the author and supported by the ESRC The theory helps us to understand ; 1 .
62 One particularly important technique that has been developed in recent years is the inverse scattering method of Belinskii and Zakharov ( 1978 , 1979 ) which had previously been developed as a soliton technique .
63 Another solution-generating technique that has been developed in recent years is that associated with Bäcklund transformations .
64 But a formidable argument has been developed in recent years by leading academic lawyers that this stream of authority should be the subject of reinterpretation to reveal a different line of thought pointing to the conclusion that money paid to a public authority pursuant to an ultra vires demand should be repayable , without the necessity of establishing compulsion , on the simple ground that there was no consideration for the payment .
65 Our English for the Tourism Industry ( EFTI ) examination has been developed in direct response to the growth of this sector and will be launched imminently .
66 The importance of such analysis by parity has been highlighted in previous studies .
67 The significance of attitude to work has been highlighted by numerous studies .
68 While the concept of headship has been criticized on empirical and political grounds , see for example Murphy ( forthcoming ) , it is necessary to use it here because it is the familiar way of presenting data and also because many data from earlier years are available only in this form .
69 The first limb is universally accepted as legitimate ; the second , though having the merit of expanding the scope of the Convention , has been criticized on various grounds .
70 The allocation of structural funds in southern Europe has been criticized on numerous occasions as causing environmental damage [ see EDs 56 ; 70 ] .
71 The World Bank 's failure to provide significant funding for energy conservation has been criticized by environmental groups after a report revealed that only 1 per cent of the Bank 's £1,800 million investment in third-world energy programmes was devoted to conservation .
72 The move has been criticized by environmental organizations , which argue that the cars could be fitted with a converter because the cost , around £300 per car , is not prohibitive and that in any case manufacturers have known for some time when the law would come into effect .
73 While statements such as this invited the charge that factual evidence was becoming confounded with too-hasty interpretation , the basic thesis survived and has been strengthened by other workers not of the psychoanalytic school : notably the ethologists and zoologists , as well as child psychologists ( Lorenz , 1952 ; Harlow , 1961 ; Schaffer and Emerson , 1964 ) .
74 Simon 's progress from world champion to fledgling novice has been monitored by senior instructor Alasdair Forbes … but what can you teach a world champion ?
75 In this country that has been ravaged by civil war even more than by drought , security is shaky .
76 Charles Richardson , who is a priest of the diocese of Plymouth and has been recently working in the Diocese of Cape Town , has been appointed as assistant priest in St Joseph 's , Bradford .
77 For instance , Bell-Ingram has been appointed by Clackmannan District Council to undertake a review of its property portfolio , which is believed to be the first of its kind in Scotland .
78 This asymmetric style has been cut to different lengths y Paul Stafford of Zaks
79 The budget of the Equal Opportunities Commission has been cut in real terms during recent years ; the report says : ‘ equal opportunity remains only an ideal ’ .
80 Rugged granite has been carved by strong winds into fantastic shapes , and hundreds of tiny bays and inlets hide small holiday developments .
81 THE Government is to receive £200,000 in emergency European Community aid to help victims of flooding in south-west England , which has been battered by torrential rain and high winds since last weekend .
82 SF incoherence has been adopted by mainstream writers — from Borges to Rushdie , Doris Lessing to Woody Allen — as literacy and literary competence has developed and spread , and readers are prepared to accept more incoherence in texts and make more effort to resolve meanings .
83 Yet the notion of inter-hemispheric inhibition is one that has been adopted by other authors to explain how language becomes lateralised to the left hemisphere ( Gazzaniga , 1974 ) .
84 A review of the way in which a systems viewpoint has been adopted by physical geography textbooks as well as in some research is justified because the alacrity with which the approach was adopted perhaps emphasizes that there was a clear need for a unifying approach .
85 The approach also has precedents among other women who were the first in their fields , and has been adopted in feminist work like that of Friedan and Greer .
86 In the west from the West Indies 325–1036 m and as far north as the Labrador basin 198–2888 m ; in the east Atlantic it has been recorded from Southern Iceland , Rockall Trough , south to the Cape Verde Islands with a bathymetric range of 729–3200 m .
87 There were also two in Chichester Harbour in December 1963 , and the species has been recorded in late October , November and January in the past .
88 Gold has been recorded in late Precambrian diorites in Charnwood Forest near Leicester , on the north-eastern margin of the Midlands Microcraton .
89 Beryl has been recorded in micaceous pegmatites of the Moine schists in north-west Scotland ( Berridge , 1969 ) .
90 This is a geographically widespread species and bait fishing has been recorded among green herons in North America , Africa and Japan .
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