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

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1 It is a tradition , and since 1911 the Indianapolis 500 has been rooted in American patriotism .
2 We have seen in this chapter that little has been achieved in British residential areas in terms of safer and more attractive environments .
3 Too little has been made in social work of the effect upon the child of long or repeated absences by the parent , except in relation to early maternal deprivation .
4 Gay energy has been taken up with service provision and public education : little has been left for meaningful activism , and our anger , fear and grief has been kept strictly privatised , so as not to exacerbate the hostility we face in the outside world , and so as not to risk funding .
5 It is clear that the first year of the scheme has brought a wide range of benefits to patients , and that has been confirmed by independent evaluation by Professor Glennerster at the London school of economics .
6 Gilligan identifies a theme of social concern and non-violence that is found mainly in women 's moral reasoning , and that has been ignored in previous descriptions of sex differences in this area .
7 Will he also tell us why he has refused to adopt the alternative package approach , involving a mixture of public transport and road schemes , that has been advocated by local authorities in the west midlands ?
8 In spite of all that has been said by popular moralists , along the lines of honesty being the best policy , everyone really knows implicitly that it is by this test of universalisability that one should determine what one ought to do .
9 Of course drugs is , is one of the wonderful examples that the very thing that Katherine was talking about , something that was n't there in the beginning and that has been produced by modern technology and is now a big problem , but is not a problem to Australian Aborigines because they do n't have any drugs er to speak of , of course now they do and alcohol is a terrible problem with Australian Aborigines I talked to David McKnight about it .
10 This has been recognised in particular by UK companies , and only a minority of large UK companies do not now use graphical means of data presentation in their corporate annual reports .
11 This has been caused by infected suburban foxes from the east ( where until last month there was no vaccination programme ) finding their way into the city centre and crossing what was once the border into West Berlin .
12 The birds ' filters enhance their sensitivity to red , and this has been exploited by other creatures .
13 This has been demonstrated in conventional medical circles in the study of psychosomatic illness and the placebo effect , and in certain alternative medical practices such as faith healing and yoga .
14 The success of Britain ‘ s efforts within Europe can therefore largely be judged in terms of the rate at which trade has expanded between Member States , the extent to which this has been based on free and fair competition , and on whether there has been a significant increase in trade between countries of the EEC and the world outside .
15 The decline of British manufacturing industry has had a devastating impact on the inner cities where such a large proportion of the black population live and this has been exacerbated by racial discrimination by employers to yield high levels of black youth unemployment ( Martin and Rowthorn , 1986 ; Newnham , 1986 ) .
16 This has been funded by Scottish Enterprise through the Glasgow Development Agency .
17 This has been documented in various Third World countries , notably Nigeria ( see Ihonvbere and Shaw , 1988 ) , Brazil ( Evans , 1979 ) and Egypt ( Gillespie , 1984 ) , and my own research on class forces along the US-Mexican border ( Sklair , 1989 ) and the Hong Kong-China border ( Sklair , forthcoming ) is cast in the same mould .
18 To the extent that social research more generally has retained an interest in social reform this has been redirected in various ways .
19 ( Like many new proteins this has been discovered by different groups , which have given it different names . )
20 This has been achieved despite direct competition for the German Government Bond contract from the recently created Deutsche Terminbörse ( DTB ) in Frankfurt , which has had considerable support from the German financial community .
21 This has been achieved with close attention to aerodynamics of the whole vehicle with careful control of cooling airflow and a smooth floorpan with integrated exhaust system and fuel tank .
22 This has been achieved by due consideration of the surrounding community whenever new development projects are considered and by planned maintenance of existing plant and machinery .
23 This has been confirmed in rigorous calculations by Konkowski and Helliwell ( 1989 ) .
24 This has been confirmed by direct measurement of ascitic plasminogen activating activity and has led to speculation that an infusion of plasminogen activators could stimulate a coagulopathy mediated by primary fibrinolysis .
25 This has been reinforced by recent changes in international migration , in particular involving a major surge in net inward movement to the South East in the first half of the 1980s .
26 This rapid rise in fundal pH is due to the buffering effect of the food , largely because of the protein present , and this has been seen in previous experiments with different test meals .
27 This has been found for retinol-binding protein and the odour-binding proteins ( M. Boudjelal , A. Sivaprasadarao and J.B.C.F. , unpublished results ) .
28 In recent years this has been brought into sharp focus with growing public concern for a healthier and safer environment .
29 This has been investigated in great detail elsewhere , and the guidelines may be summarized as follows :
30 This has been investigated in close detail by such social anthropologists as Edmund Leach , who attempted to describe the ‘ expressive ’ and symbolic aspects of thinking in industrial and non-industrial society alike ( 1954 , 1976 ) .
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