Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] have been [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British banks have been granted some £2,250 million in tax relief on bad loans to developing countries , according to official figures . |
| 2 | Could it be that some machines have been neglected all summer ? |
| 3 | Where one-off items have been selected some stores will reserve them for you , but you may have to buy them yourself if they are n't chosen . |
| 4 | Different codecs have been designed each with their own performance characteristics . |
| 5 | However , if hon. Members had been given more time to study these complicated regulations , more of them might have realised how adversely they affect some of their constituents and would have made it their business to be here . |
| 6 | The form of the key is application-dependent : in our work , nine different components have been identified such as section , subsection and footnote . |
| 7 | Anhydrite in minor quantities has been reported at different Devonian horizons in two wells in France and Belgium , and in more substantial thickness in the Dinantian in Belgium ( Massa and Oudin 1980 ) ; intriguing speculations have been made that halite might be present deeper in the Namur and Dinant basins . |
| 8 | No average for the country is available for comparison , but compared with other areas where similar surveys have been made this figure is regarded as a high one . |
| 9 | That significant marine action extends to quite high levels is well known.Wentworth ( 1938 ) has for instance described an example from the Hawaiian Islands , where a block of tuff weighing about 7 tons has been moved several feet fro its natural position at an elevation of 12m ( 40 ft ) on an exposed cliff . |
| 10 | The six men and six women have been questioned all day by detectives : |
| 11 | Childless women declaimed prayers to the Virgin in Latin while tears rolled down their faces ; and the parents of idiot children danced with them in the market place , swearing that their little brains had been set all to rights . |
| 12 | Erm , the , all the arguments for and against organic dips have been considered this last nine months by the Veterinary Products Committee , and they 've come out with a report I think , that satisfies no one , because it does n't go either , either way in that respect at all , it 's called for more research and , and erm , development in that , in that sense . |
| 13 | Just three seals had been killed that day , when more than twenty were needed ; and only one cleanly , by a single spear-thrust from Okawi . |
| 14 | Until these issues have been resolved all patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy should be regarded as at risk of deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism . |
| 15 | The finding of the " goat " has caused particular excitement , since i is one of the few large mammals to have been discovered this century . |
| 16 | The injury-hit Wearsiders have been dealt another blow with the news that a torn thigh muscle will keep defender Gary Bennett out for three weeks . |
| 17 | It 's only once all these preparations have been done that the family concentrate on decorating their own home . |
| 18 | An early book on techniques in geomorphology ( King , 1966 ) covered the range then available , specific manuals have been produced such as the US Geological Survey Techniques of Water Resources Investigations and the Technical Bulletins of the British Geomorphological Research Group , and an edited manual of geomorphological techniques ( Goudie , 1981a ) embraces the earlier developments . |
| 19 | Structural traps for Barren Measures ' sandstone reservoirs are provided by Mesozoic block-faulting and other more subtle plays have been identified such as ‘ reef ’ developments in the Lower Carboniferous and onlap/'pinch-out' of sands within the Millstone Grit . |
| 20 | Provisions relating to ancient monuments have been amended several times , the latest being 1983 when the National Heritage Act was passed . |
| 21 | Mr Crawford added more than 600 illegal nets had been seized this year . |
| 22 | MORE than 600 illegal nets have been confiscated this year from poachers who are stealing thousands of pounds worth of salmon from the River Foyle . |
| 23 | At lower levels , too , cost-centre managers have been given more flexibility with personnel management providing a greater link between performance and promotion ( Thorpe |
| 24 | The splendid and spirited pictures in the early printed herbals had been done this way , but as increasingly detailed and accurate illustrations were demanded , plates etched or engraved on copper became the norm . |
| 25 | At the Tour 's A.G.M. last year , I asked how many players had been fined that season for slow play . |
| 26 | Worldwide , over a million great whales have been killed this century for their oil and meat . |
| 27 | In the end only one or two small sub-programmes have been investigated each year . |
| 28 | In agreement with Lapworth , it was shown that the uppermost rocks had been pushed many miles over the lower ones along a low-angled thrust fault . |
| 29 | The amounts as well as qualifying ages have been altered several times since 1986/87 , so any rebate would only apply to allowances that would have been due to you at the time . |
| 30 | Several studies have been produced that point to correspondences between French fabliaux and intellectual ( scholarly ) currents of the twelfth to fourteenth centuries . |