Example sentences of "[det] [noun] has be done [prep] " in BNC.

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1 For example , Spears ( 1982 ) states that little research has been done on the cost of rehabilitation of severely eroded hillsides .
2 Very little research has been done on the literature guides and only one on their use by students , so all we have is speculation .
3 Despite the Gulfs long history of oil pollution , little research has been done on the long-term impact on marine life there .
4 Yet , as Newton ( 1976 , p. 148 ) reminds us , while the ‘ dictatorship of the official ’ thesis has ‘ a certain commonsense plausibility … it has very little empirical evidence to support it … because little research has been done on the subject ’ .
5 Little research has been done into the problems generated by quota sampling since studies over thirty years ago pointed up some major problems ( Moser and Stuart 1953 ; Stephan and McCarthy 1958 ) .
6 Very little research has been done into its cause among adolescents and adults .
7 What little research has been done in this area suggests that the proportion of deprived youngsters heading for the great outdoors is disproportionately low .
8 Although religious educators often refer to religion in the lives of children and young people , and recommend that religious education draw on this experience in their teaching , little research has been done in the area .
9 Much of this research has been done by TV advertising agencies and TV organizations themselves — so we can only assume that they have used it to shape their programs to appeal to that level of consciousness .
10 Some work has been done on monkeys with restricted visual cortex ablations ( Mohter and Wurtz 1977 ; Weiskrantz and Cowey 1970 ) and , in these , it has been shown that the ability to detect light flashes and make saccadic eye movements to fixate stimuli within the blind field is retained .
11 Some work has been done on this topic in recent years , but this study will differ from previous approaches by linking the unemployment flows much more closely to the other flows in the labour market .
12 To date , some work has been done in several areas including planning and learning and induction .
13 Much of this work has been done for the larger national and international companies .
14 A great deal of fascinating research in this area has been done by Dr Ian Stevenson , one of the most eminent and respected workers in this field .
15 Much of the work in this area has been done by economists whose approach is based upon the hypothesis that workers will join unions if the expected benefits and returns from the services which unions can provide — in the form of relative wage gains , taking up grievances , access to specialised information and the like — exceed the expected costs .
16 Some collecting has been done in Colombia and Peru , but not enough ; in Central America , some primitive cultivated varieties in danger of extinction are now preserved in the germplasm collection at Turrialba in Costa Rica , but there , as elsewhere , the present-day status of the wild cocoa populations remains mysterious .
17 The most important work in the formal sector this year has been done under the auspices of SFDES .
18 It has been extensively investigated for large mammals ( Brain , 1958 , 1974 , 1981 ; Voorhies , 1969 ; Sutcliff , 1970 ; Behrensmeyer , 1975 ; Klein , 1975 ; Hill , 1975 ; Shipman , 1977 , 1983a ; Behrensmeyer & Hill , 1980 ; Binford , 1981 ) , but little work has been done on small mammals .
19 Since then little work has been done on the loco by the small group of owners who like everyone else have been hampered by lack of funds .
20 However , little work has been done on , for example , the ethical foundations of the public service model of broadcasting , or the basic ethical guidelines for policy formation .
21 Many relinquishing mothers ( little work has been done on fathers ) do not appear to be reconciled to the adoption — 62 per cent of birth parents ' referrals to the PAC concerned a search for their child .
22 As a second , hypothetical example , suppose that I was keen to make some contribution to human physiology or anatomy , and suppose I noted that very little work has been done on the weight of human earlobes .
23 All these studies acknowledge that Mills and Boon is a ‘ phenomenon in publishing ’ but little work has been done on the marketing and production side of a phenomenon which claimed a readership of 250 million worldwide during 1984 .
24 There is , admittedly , a long tradition both in linguistics and in literary studies of analysing the works of individual writers , particularly literary writers , but relatively little work has been done on such areas of text studies as the conventions of non-literary writing within a community or the preferred patterns of organization in different types of discourse .
25 Previous research on government-industry relations has concentrated either on rapidly declining industries such as steel or high technology sectors such as microelectronics ; relatively little work has been done on the chemicals industry .
26 It would be satisfying to be able to list examples of phonological differences between accents in the area of stress and intonation , but unfortunately , straightforward examples are not available ; we do not yet know enough about the phonological functions of stress and intonation , and too little work has been done on comparing accents in terms of these factors .
27 Very little work has been done in this field but there has been sufficient to reveal that the refinement of economic theory ( especially in terms of mathematical sophistication ) is akin to fashioning scalpels to cut through jungle when it comes to the real world of policy-making [ Graham , 1975 ] .
28 All that work has been done in addition to the the traffic studies .
29 ‘ Checking to see how much damage has been done to it , ’ the Doctor said with some irritation .
30 In the past much damage has been done by taking moulds from sculptures in museums and elsewhere .
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