Example sentences of "[noun] have been [vb pp] " 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 This closing technique has been mentioned briefly earlier in this chapter .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 The slow fall clamp technique has been described previously .
23 The technique has been described in detail previously .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 Recently , another ultrafast MRI technique has been introduced under the name of ‘ snapshot ’ or turboFLASH .
28 This technique has been copied by insects , including ladybirds and certain moths and butterflies .
29 It is a mechanical process , indeed the technique has been automated ( see Chapter 11 ) , but the difficult part of it lies in understanding the meaning , that is , the semantics of the data , and this is only discovered by extensive and careful data analysis .
30 An audio-tape recording in which the exercises are described can be a useful adjunct to teaching the patient this method , provided the therapist has first demonstrated the procedure to the patient , and the technique has been learned adequately .
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