Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been [vb pp] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elsewhere in this book , empirical evidence for commodity futures has been used to supplement that for index futures . |
| 2 | It does seem to me an extraordinary catalogue of errors erm and one can well understand how errors take p er could , could have occurred during the somewhat co chaotic passage of the Railways Bill er what , what can not be understood and what is quite inexcusable is , is the fact that no steps adequate steps have been taken to correct those errors and to assure the er continued existence of a er Transport Police which er h h has the sole responsibility for er policing large public spaces in , in this country and er as the Noble Lord has made clear , er does it honour er very considerable scale , very effectively er I hope that the Minister will find it possible to make a favourable reply to the arguments which have been raised . |
| 3 | Pupils received a pat on the back for satisfactory learning and community work but heads have been told to review some management and teaching methods . |
| 4 | This year marked the tenth anniversary of THE FACE , but whereas parties have been thrown to commemorate this occasion , nobody has bothered to hold a ‘ do ’ for the tenth anniversary of the training shoe . |
| 5 | Several methods have been used to detect this response , including agglutination , complement fixation , and enzyme linked immunosorbent assay ( ELISA ) . |
| 6 | Methods have been used to overcome these problems to some degree . |
| 7 | A number of methods have been proposed to achieve this aim , including the Viterbi algorithm ( Viterbi , 1967 ; Neuhoff , 1975 ; Shinghal and Toussaint , 1979a ) , probabilistic relaxation ( Goshtasby and Ehrich , 1988 ) , and the Recursive Bayes algorithm ( Raviv , 1967 ; Shinghal , Rosenberg and Toussaint , 1978 ) . |
| 8 | How many little voices have been silenced to censor such embarrassing moments ! |
| 9 | Gordon Parkes , the firm 's head of human resources , said : ‘ Some current job roles are being discontinued and new more appropriate roles have been developed to meet these increased demands from the market place . |
| 10 | Interestingly enough , even hens and rats have been found to consume more calories when they are offered a varied diet than when they are fed ‘ the same old thing ’ all the time . |
| 11 | The Spanish government has promised to pay some of the Pts 11 billion ( US$95 million ) cost of building the Barcelona synchrotron , and the European Communities have been asked to provide half of the money . |
| 12 | Many ingenious models have been proposed to explain these spatiotemporal aspects of calcium signalling . |
| 13 | Two special fun days have been arranged to allow all Journal readers the chance to enjoy the delights of Britain 's number one theme park , Alton Towers , at a discount rate . |
| 14 | The gases have been used to cool most types of fridges for decades but are now headed for a world-wide ban in 1996 after being blamed for causing holes in the ozone layer , which shields the earth from the sun 's harmful ultraviolet rays . |
| 15 | Originally the class of persons entitled to claim was limited to the wife , husband , parent and child of the deceased but over the years the classes have been extended to enable all those classes mentioned in the 1976 Act to claim . |
| 16 | The Haar Sana range of treatments has been developed to deal this and other scalp problems . |
| 17 | Already a pair of earrings worth up to four thousand pounds has been donated to launch this summer 's major television fundraising campaign — the third ITV Telethon . |
| 18 | Only 30 per cent of the usual resources had been used to achieve this , and the entire harvest had been sold , he said . |
| 19 | These and related observations have been interpreted to mean that " deep dyslexics ' are unable to employ a phonological code , that is , they can not decode a word in terms of its sound structure , and have to rely on a purely visual code in retrieving words from their internal dictionary or lexicon ( Warrington and Shallice , 1979 ; Coltheart , 1980a ) . |
| 20 | Brass bands , jazz bands , school bands and groups of dancers have been booked to perform each lunchtime at three Chelmsford venues up to and including Saturday . |
| 21 | But , as Roger Lawson of Southampton University has pointed out , more efforts have been made to counter this localism by the Money Advice Association ( founded in 1984 ) and the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux . |
| 22 | Strenuous efforts have been made to program such recognition abilities into microcomputers and several packages for manipulating and comparing spectra are available . |
| 23 | Firstly , I am reporting to you that there has been in the current year additional efficiency savings over and above those that previously anticipated er at the level of two hundred thousand pounds and so we are assuming in the budget erm that those can continue into ninety four , five and thereafter , and then we 'll see the resolutions have been amended to take that into account and the text of the erratum sheet explains how that 's been done . |
| 24 | ( 5 ) Victory in a symbolic struggle means that one 's symbolic goods have been judged to possess more value than those of one 's competitors . |
| 25 | Typically , firms have been required to export all their output to attract the full set of incentives . |
| 26 | A range of techniques has been used to avoid this problem , including chromatographic cellulose fibre powder to remove PCR inhibitors from the samples . |
| 27 | Unsafe disposal of lighted cigarette ends has been thought to cause many fires involving buildings used by the public , for example the football stadium disaster in Bradford , England in l985 and the King 's Cross Underground station fire in London in 1987 . |
| 28 | Sports sponsorship by tobacco companies and particularly the televising of sponsored events increases children 's awareness of the brands [ 7 ] and those children with favourite advertisements have been shown to have more positive views on smoking than those without . |
| 29 | Several spectroscopic techniques have been used to examine this effect for CO adsorption on single-crystal metal surfaces , but bond energy changes can only be inferred indirectly from these techniques . |
| 30 | Increasingly sophisticated techniques have been used to solve these problems . |