Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] [adj] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every day there 've been two to three flights taking off from Zagreb and flying across disputed territory to Sarajevo . |
| 2 | A collection of essays edited by Ellen Kennedy and Susan Mendus , Women in Western Political Philosophy ( 1987 ) , presents a feminist perspective on questions that have been central to political philosophy and raises questions about the philosophical underpinning of political theory . |
| 3 | These questions have been central to recent studies and the answers may be unexpected . |
| 4 | Some of the other issues discussed in this book have been central to historical writing on South Asia which treats more traditional subjects . |
| 5 | He argues that ‘ the failure of both disputes revealed and reproduced the regional nature of management-labour relations in the industry ’ ( p. 35 ) , because ‘ miners ’ interpretations of the two disputes , and of the underlying arguments , are understood as embedded in the nature of collective social relations at work … the constitution of workplace relations has varied between coalfields and … variations in management and labour strategies have been central to this process ' ( p. 36 ) . |
| 6 | Issues about women 's autonomy have been central to feminist thinking and action . |
| 7 | My daughter had a wooden train set when she was a toddler ; construction toys have been available to both children , so we have dolls ' cots and buggies , plastic swords , sewing cards , cars and garages . |
| 8 | However , these have been due to large-scale rationalization , including a reduction of nearly a quarter of their work force between 1980 and 1984 . |
| 9 | Some have been due to the aircraft getting into a new mode of spin , but others have been due to poor recovery techniques . |
| 10 | The occasional and unfortunate accidents have been due to inadequate safety procedures , not to lack of understanding of the basic nuclear processes ; had there been some previously unknown nuclear process taking place at room temperature in solid materials and that had been somehow overlooked , then it is likely that we would have discovered this long ago in some reactor . |
| 11 | Remember , too , that the strains within the ERM have been due to exceptional circumstances . |
| 12 | These three conceptions have been subject to various criticisms : that many of the discretionary powers are vested in officials and public bodies , that many officials and bodies have powers and immunities that the ordinary citizen does not have , and that certain rights have been modified by or enacted in statute . |
| 13 | Yet , by 1986 , in the Green Paper Paying for Local Government we were told that ‘ The Government is concerned , however , that GREs have been subject to frequent changes ’ ( Department of the Environment , 1986b ) . |
| 14 | But even as the mainstream has turned on to S&M images , those involved in the scene have been subject to increased harassment from the authorities . |
| 15 | In the geological field , Aberdeen University has produced a number of M Sc theses derived from research on the geology of North Sea oil fields , in part financed by the local oil industry , and most have been subject to restricted access at the behest of the funding authorities . |
| 16 | Traditionally , releases of major pollutants to air , land and water have been subject to separate controls . |
| 17 | Moreover , loss-making Spanish public enterprises have been subject to specific pay bands lower than those for profitable companies . |
| 18 | Thirdly , foreign banks have been subject to minimal regulations on their foreign currency ( non-sterling ) deposit and loan business by the Bank of England . |
| 19 | The reasons for this diversity have been subject to much debate ( section 2.4.2 ) and while it is not yet resolved , the fact remains that such forests house a huge genetic resource that has only been fractionally realised to yield what have ultimately become significant commercial products such as rubber . |
| 20 | Pension funds have been subject to close scrutiny and performance measurement . |
| 21 | Qualities such as the physical condition of the member of the opposite sex , the resources it holds and the extent to which it bears characters that have been subject to sexual selection can all affect whether or not it is chosen ( see Halliday , 1983 ) . |
| 22 | The instruments for changing behaviour show an adapted regularity which suggests that they themselves have been subject to natural selection during the course of evolution . |
| 23 | They fit the animal 's information-gathering equipment to particular problems and , presumably , they have been subject to natural selection during evolution . |
| 24 | In my view a good case has been made for the view that the learning processes involved in the formation of mating preference of humans have been subject to natural selection during the course of evolution . |
| 25 | This does n't seem to have bothered women in Japan though , where commercial tampons have been subject to strict controls since 1969 : no added deodorant ; no super-absorbency chemicals or rayon ; sterilisation in ethylene oxide gas . |
| 26 | There is an enormous variety in the urban experience that this book can not hope to explore to any great extent : different cities have been subject to contrasting pressures and have responded in different ways . |
| 27 | Indeed , it is only since 1965 that mergers have been subject to public scrutiny at all . |
| 28 | Special circumstances are required to justify the er proposing the new settlement through the local plan structure planning process , and I believe that is exactly what has occurred over the last five years , and if I could just quickly run through paragraph thirty three of P P G three , and the your invitation for us to comment on the criteria set out there , first of all the first element , the ex the alternative must be erm seen to be a less satisfactory method of providing land for the new housing that is needed , that is the essence of what has occurred in the process which the County Council has undertaken over the last couple of years , all of the policy options available have been examined in great detail , have been subject to public consultation , public participation , d I believe clear view was that there were erm constraints operating on York which meant that not all of that additional development accommodated in the adjacent to the existing er York city villages surrounding York . |
| 29 | Anyone who believes they have been subject to unfair dismissal can complain to an industrial tribunal . |
| 30 | Fortunately , major contemporary building styles have been subject to detailed analysis in terms of their social significance . |