Example sentences of "[noun] have [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A SICILIAN accused of forming a Mafia cell in the Alpine city of Grenoble has been expelled to Italy . |
| 2 | More recently a string of no less than thirty cylinder seals made of lapis lazuli has been recovered from a Mycenaean house at Thebes . |
| 3 | British anti-fur trade group Lynx has been forced to close following the successful libel action brought by Swalesmoor Mink Farm . |
| 4 | A support and training technique has been developed , based on the Caplan model of inter-professional process consultation ( Caplan 1970 ) , a technique of regular group sessions where consultant and colleagues pool their equal but differing expertise in a process of joint exploration of a difficulty experienced in a group member 's work setting , such as , for instance , the context of a pupil 's learning difficulty . |
| 5 | The neutralisation technique has been validated by double blind randomised trials , including food trials showing its effectiveness in preventing symptoms.Studies that failed to show effects evaluated the provocation of symptoms by food extracts ( not part of the standard technique ) ; that cited by Kay was also faulty in many respects and gave a wrong definition of the end point . |
| 6 | Sometimes this means that a single prohibited action or technique is enough to lose you the match even though no scoring technique has been made . |
| 7 | This powerful technique has been limited so far to molecules that can be excited by CO 2 lasers , which have limited tunability . |
| 8 | The success of this technique has been limited . |
| 9 | The technique has been demonstrated using inorganic crystals , but organic polymers are easier to work with and much less expensive than crystals . |
| 10 | But English technique has been exposed as inadequate , while the comparative lack of success of our own spinners has been equally disturbing . |
| 11 | This technique has been applied to the study of platelet function in diabetic subjects ( Jones et al , 1985 ) . |
| 12 | A simple hydraulic fracturing technique has been applied to ten boreholes in the Masvingo area of Zimbabwe , in which there many low-yielding tube-wells . |
| 13 | This technique has been applied extensively by the present project to the problem of discriminating between different candidate words in a single sentential position ( rather than different senses of the same word ) . |
| 14 | This technique has been discovered independently by two different groups of birds — the weaverbirds of Africa which are closely related to the European sparrow , and the icterids of the Americas which include such birds as the caciques and the oropendolas . |
| 15 | When they discover a shoal of smaller fish , they will harry them on all sides , driving them into such a dense concentration that the technique has been called ‘ meat-balling ’ . |
| 16 | Interviewing as a technique has been studied and analysed and research suggests that technique can , in fact , be improved with training . |
| 17 | The interview technique has been designed to stimulate discussion of the topic in question with as little prompting as possible , again justifying the phrase which was used in the title of the report of the previous project : ‘ Transport decision-makers speak ’ . |
| 18 | Once the technique has been perfected there 'll be no need to hide the truth . ’ |
| 19 | Various other studies have , however , attempted to do this ; the usual technique has been to suggest that it is a particular psychological characteristic that is inherited and which leads ‘ naturally ’ to crime . |
| 20 | Dialectology in its traditional form is therefore principally interested in geographical differences ; its best-known data-gathering technique has been to send researchers ( usually called ‘ field-workers ’ ) mainly into rural areas ( where the speakers were believed to be less likely to have been influenced by other accents ) , to find elderly speakers ( whose speech was believed to have been less influenced by other accents and to preserve older forms of the dialect ) and to use lists of questions to find information about vocabulary and pronunciation , the questions being chosen to concentrate on items known to vary a lot from region to region . |
| 21 | This closing technique has been mentioned briefly earlier in this chapter . |
| 22 | The bromodeoxyuridine immunohistochemical technique has overcome many of the problems associated with the tritiated thymidine technique and the accuracy of this technique has been verified by Lacy et al . |
| 23 | However , once the technique has been mastered , and provided lots of space is left , making a set of notes with powerful punch and instant accessibility gives as much sense of achievement as going round the golf course under par or making a successful rugby try against strong opposition . |
| 24 | The slow fall clamp technique has been described previously . |
| 25 | The technique has been described in detail previously . |
| 26 | Although this waveform detection technique has been discussed with particular reference to a three.phase variable.reluctance motor , it should be apparent that the method can be applied to any motor in which the motional voltage influences the current waveform . |
| 27 | Dictionary definitions constitute a valuable source of semantic knowledge , and the definitional overlap technique has been shown to be a suitable method for applying such knowledge . |
| 28 | Comprising of a completely new type of lotion and pinless , lightweight rollers , this unique technique has been introduced to keep up with the increasing demand for 90 's sets . |
| 29 | Recently , another ultrafast MRI technique has been introduced under the name of ‘ snapshot ’ or turboFLASH . |
| 30 | This technique has been copied by insects , including ladybirds and certain moths and butterflies . |