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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Different codecs have been designed each with their own performance characteristics . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The form of the key is application-dependent : in our work , nine different components have been identified such as section , subsection and footnote . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The finding of the " goat " has caused particular excitement , since i is one of the few large mammals to have been discovered this century . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Provisions relating to ancient monuments have been amended several times , the latest being 1983 when the National Heritage Act was passed . |
| 15 | Mr Crawford added more than 600 illegal nets had been seized this year . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | At lower levels , too , cost-centre managers have been given more flexibility with personnel management providing a greater link between performance and promotion ( Thorpe |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Worldwide , over a million great whales have been killed this century for their oil and meat . |
| 20 | In the end only one or two small sub-programmes have been investigated each year . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | When the political dictatorships had been overthrown several alternative courses of action were open to the successor regimes . |
| 24 | In the period before 1910 about 85,000 new houses had been built each year , but after the introduction of Land Values Duties the building rate fell sharply . |
| 25 | Successive new syntheses have been published both of the history of the party and of the revolution , and with each edition they have tended to become more detailed , more finely nuanced , more subtle . |
| 26 | Since then about ten new sites have been scheduled each week , and this could be seen as a deliberate blocking measure as it only takes place where the owner wants to do something with the site . |
| 27 | At present no other organisations have been given this status . |
| 28 | In the Northern General hospital NHS trust , six new consultants have been appointed this year and 95 per cent . |
| 29 | After last week 's Revenue announcement that more than £1bn had beep taken by Personal Equity Plans , two new PEPs have been launched this week by stockbrokers Credit Suisse Buckmaster & Moore and life insurance giant Norwich Union . |
| 30 | No significant onshore placers are currently known but some offshore areas have been investigated such as the Mawddach estuary , near Dolgellau in North Wales , which was considered a prospect by RioFinex during the late 1960s . |