Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These characteristics have been employed to great effect by geneticists , and advances to date have been remarkably swift . |
| 2 | ‘ Sheffield ’ type parking stands have been placed at several public cycle parking places in central Edinburgh marked overleaf by . |
| 3 | Guidelines have been discovered beneath British mosaics on only a few occasions : the author knows of only two unequivocal examples — the painted lines on the penultimate layer of mortar of the mosaic from building XIII , Beeches Road , Cirencester ( Neal 1981 , no. 26 ) , and the scored circle of the fragmentary mosaic above the Charioteer pavement at Rudston ( Smith 1976 , 6 ) — although , in wall painting such practices were also known ( plaster on display , Jewry Wall Museum ) . |
| 4 | Programme makers discovered that guidelines have been isued to local authorities on what do in the event of a nuclear accident . |
| 5 | Guidelines have been established for Head Teachers to incorporate road safety education in the school curriculum . |
| 6 | Even so , the guidelines have been used in other cases as factors to be considered where the statute applies ( see Woodman v Photo Trade Processing Ltd reported by Lawson in ( 1981 ) 131 NLJ 933 , at p935 ) . |
| 7 | Diverse cultures , religions and races have often found common ground and contact in rugby and lasting bridges between nations or peoples have been supported by sporting encounters at all levels . |
| 8 | Present day quantitative studies in Lurgan , a small country town south-west of Belfast in the Lagan Valley , confirm the existence of an /a/ system with little backing ( front vowels have been noted in that area even before [ r ] and finally ) , which is quite similar to Patterson 's ( 1860 ) account of Belfast in this respect ( Pitts , 1982 ) . |
| 9 | This philosophy , though on a far grander scale , can be observed in practice in such great gardens as Sissinghurst in Kent and Hidcote Manor in Gloucestershire , where similar plants and colour combinations have been placed in walled or hedged parts of the larger garden . |
| 10 | Older fans have been irked by this change of direction . |
| 11 | English soccer fans have been charged after more violence at the European Championships . |
| 12 | A number of small bronze figurines have been found in several locations in southern Britain . |
| 13 | A large number of the old lime trees were felled by the gales in October 1987 , but young limes have been placed in those same positions in order to preserve the avenue . |
| 14 | Several lists have been made of useful hints . |
| 15 | Although Trusts only came into operation in April ninety one , the evidence suggests that many , that many have improved patient services in many w many areas waiting lists have been cut through greater efficiency and increased use of day surgery . |
| 16 | The Department of Health figures show that nationally , two-year lists have been slashed from 51,224 patients at the end of March , 1991 to just 1,640 patients at the end of last month . |
| 17 | Where combined schools exist , usually in areas where primary and secondary schools have been replaced by first , middle and high schools and whole first and middle schools are occasionally run into a single ( combined school ) organization , there is some continuity of teacher programming from the age of 5 through to 12 years . |
| 18 | The accident records at these schools have been examined in considerable detail by the Departments of Highways and Education and the Police and four areas have been highlighted for further action and detailed investigation . |
| 19 | But both Salters 's and Russell 's work in Northern Ireland schools have been used by catholic schools supporters to aid a general principle , also derived from the work of some sociologists of education : namely that schools have little impact on children in terms of their basic values anyway , and one should recognize parents and community environment for the real source of these . |
| 20 | Examination results for secondary schools have been published since 1982 , as a result of the 1980 Act . |
| 21 | The remedies have been grouped for easier comparison and so do not appear alphabetically . |
| 22 | Cash reserves have been savaged by massive rises in social security benefits because of ever-growing dole queues and interest repayments on debt . |
| 23 | Article 20 of the Brussels Convention provides that where a defendant domiciled in one Contracting State is sued in a court of another Contracting State the court shall stay the proceedings so long as it is not shown that the defendant has been able to receive the document instituting the proceedings or an equivalent document in sufficient time to enable him to arrange for his defence , or that all necessary steps have been taken to this end . |
| 24 | According to the Link 's busy manager Ken Lee , the Woodland Road offices have been contacted by several other business ventures around the which are interested in emulating Darlington 's success . |
| 25 | The new offices have been obtained on advantageous terms , the refurbishment costs being offset against a significantly lower rent . |
| 26 | A paid-up policy is only available if premiums have been paid for three years and the reduced sum is £400 or more . |
| 27 | Peel ( 1966 ) considered that these would have taken a long time to form and their unidirectional nature may indicate that the north-east trades have been blowing over this area for a very long time . |
| 28 | Although the NRA warned that the programme 's cost will be high , and that there are no " quick fix " remedies , solutions have been identified for 10 of the rivers . |
| 29 | The realisation is increasingly coming to planners and administrators that many so-called rural problems and their solutions have been identified by urban-orientated people , or indeed may largely be created by the effects of urban based interests and decisions . |
| 30 | On the basis of their commitment to an open and participatory democracy , Hartnett and Naish raise a number of major moral , social and educational issues arising from the drift to a more centralized system of control , in which managerial and bureaucratic priorities and solutions have been advanced over professional and community concerns . |