Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [verb] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we are satisfied that this stage of the transaction has been completed in good faith , you will receive the rest of the items through the post . ’ |
| 2 | Population decline has been halted in many areas since the mid-1960s to its present level of 346,000 , with employment in manufacturing trebling in this period and total employment growing by one-half ( Shucksmith and Lloyd 1982 ) . |
| 3 | This property has been recognised in many plant species . |
| 4 | This is the first time that a photographer has been recognised in this way . |
| 5 | This is the first time that a photographer has been recognised in this way . |
| 6 | Pain arising from the costal margin has been recognised in medical studies for many years . |
| 7 | A children s adventure playground has been built in recent years , and the field is well used by the village football and cricket teams . |
| 8 | A second possible objection to the rational basis/rightness approach is that it would be somehow inconsistent with the juridical basis on which judicial review has been built in this country . |
| 9 | So much has been written in recent years about Ralph Sarich 's Orbital two-stroke engine that our award for technical innovation might appear somewhat tardy . |
| 10 | Much has been written in recent years of the so-called " male menopause " . |
| 11 | A good deal has been written in recent years about Primitive Catholicism , the tendency apparent even within the New Testament period itself to domesticate the Holy Spirit , to make him the perquisite of the Church . |
| 12 | His Laws is still read with pleasure when much that has been written in intervening centuries on the subjects which he treated appears arid , unintelligible , pompous or irrelevant . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Some of my best writing has been lost in this way , for I have reason to suppose that the letters were not kept , not even in an old shoe-box . |
| 15 | The matter has been handled in meticulous detail both by Hare and Macfarlane , and only the most salient points can be noted here . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The Irish Bank Officials ’ Association , over the years , has made a tremendous contribution to the welfare of its members and we know that in recent times IBOA has been engaged in many struggles to protect those terms and conditions . |
| 18 | A YOUNG flying ace of a Spitfire squadron which has been engaged in many battles over Britain , and who married a former Sheerness Carnival Queen , has been killed in action . |
| 19 | Indeed it is perhaps a pity that he did not take his own advice , after writing in the New Guide ‘ for the author of the present work might with greater ease , and probably with more advantage to himself , have worked up for the amusement of the eye a number of drawings and paintings during the time he has been engaged in this matter of mere utility ’ . |
| 20 | It has been stated in this document that only two small fires have occurred in high-bay warehouses over 10 metres high of which there are probably more than 5,000 in existence throughout the world . |
| 21 | The Poles ' sole contribution to history has been to indulge in foolish pranks , at once valiant and provocative . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Until now SuperCalc has lacked a ‘ best fit ’ option for setting column width and this has been rectified in this release . |
| 24 | Using the equation above , the probability that a difference of this order has been missed in this series of experiments is less than 1% for both acid and pepsin . |
| 25 | The debate which deals with these matters will be referred to and the conceptual apparatus which has been developed in that debate will be used where appropriate . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Another solution-generating technique that has been developed in recent years is that associated with Bäcklund transformations . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Will the success that has been developed in these areas be supported or impeded by the 1988 Education Reform Act ? |
| 30 | This geometric design is Inca , from Croydex 's new Premiere range of textile shower curtains , forming a dramatic focal point around which a warm ethnic look has been developed in this bathroom . |